Murray Wood: With just a bit more attention to detail, Kinsmen Park could be pretty perfect
There were people in Kinsmen Park paid to be working the other morning, so Murray Wood wonders why the litter wasn't pic...
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Slower-than-expected economic growth to help Canada’s defence spending numbers
OTTAWA - The federal government is predicting Canadian defence spending will inch closer to its NATO promises in the coming years than originally expected - though not because Ottawa is planning to se...
Dec 13, 2019
Andrew Scheer to resign as Conservative leader
OTTAWA - After rejecting calls for his resignation from within his party for weeks, federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced Thursday that he will step down as soon as his party chooses a s...
Dec 12, 2019 Leader of the Opposition Andrew Scheer announces he will step down as leader of the Conservatives on Dec. 12, 2019 in the House of Commons in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Derailed train in Saskatchewan released 1.5 million litres of oil: TSB
LANIGAN, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says Monday's fiery Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailment in Saskatchewan involved the estimated release of 1.5 million litres of oil. The ...
Dec 12, 2019 Burning oil tankers from CPR train derailment west of Guernsey on Dec. 10th, 2019. (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Report suggests agriculture needs changes to save climate and farmers
Farming needs to change to help save the climate and farmers themselves, says a national agriculture group. A report released Wednesday by the National Farmers Union concludes that some elements of ol...
Dec 11, 2019
Multiple fatalities after plane crashes on Gabriola Island off B.C. coast
GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C. - Three investigators from the Transportation Safety Board are expected to arrive early this afternoon at the scene of a plane crash which officials say took several lives off th...
Dec 11, 2019
Freeland signs amended version of new NAFTA deal with U.S., Mexico
OTTAWA - Canada joined the United States and Mexico in heralding a new era of North American prosperity on Tuesday as they formally agreed to changes to the new continental free trade deal first reach...
Dec 10, 2019 Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland, second left, acknowledges the applause as Mexico's top trade negotiator Jesus Seade, right, Mexico's Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera, second right, and Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left, applaud after signing an update to the North American Free Trade Agreement, at the national palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Dec. 10. 2019.(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Liberals move to start phasing in promised tax cuts in January 2020
OTTAWA - The Liberal government says Canadians would begin to see the impact of a proposed tax cut on their first pay stubs of the new year - as long as the party can get enough political rivals to he...
Dec 09, 2019
Tennis star Andreescu wins Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year
TORONTO - Tennis star Bianca Andreescu has won the 2019 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's athlete of the year. She is the first tennis player to win the award. Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., became the...
Dec 09, 2019
Phone service providers expected to adopt new caller ID verification program
OTTAWA - Some of Canada's telephone providers are being called on by the country's telecom regulator to add to their arsenals in the battle against phone scammers. The Canadian Radio-television and Te...
Dec 09, 2019
Wealth of Canadians divided along racial lines, says report on income inequality
OTTAWA - Canadians who identify as visible minorities do not have the same access to investments and other sources of wealth as non-racialized people, suggests a new report on income inequality that l...
Dec 09, 2019
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