Murray Wood: What the stars of the World Cup could learn from four-year-olds
Murray Wood says despite what his granddaughter's soccer team lacks in skill - or even understanding of why they're on t...
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Treasury Board minister silent on details of plan to shrink federal public service
OTTAWA - Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali says the federal government hasn't worked out details of its plans to cut the bureaucracy and boost the amount of time public servants spend in the office...
Dec 29, 2025
Cold War bomb shelter in Nova Scotia being converted into high-end doomsday condos
DEBERT - A former Cold War fallout shelter in rural Nova Scotia is being transformed into luxury condominiums for elite clients seeking refuge from global crises. Project co-owner Paul Mansfield says ...
Dec 29, 2025 A rendering from the sales brochure for The Diefenbaker, a luxury condo development being built inside a Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelter in rural Nova Scotia, is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - The Diefenbaker (Mandatory Credit)
'Waters are choppy': Scott Moe reflects on year that brought uncertainty and problems
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott began the year with a smaller crew of mostly newbies, pledging to do better on everything from health care and education to balancing budgets. By spring, he had mor...
Dec 28, 2025 Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe poses for a photograph in Regina, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu)
Boxing Day draws shoppers despite poor weather in Toronto, much of Ontario
TORONTO - Shoppers in some Canadian cities braved heavy snow and wintry conditions on Boxing Day, undeterred by the challenging weather in their hunt for a good deal. Much of southern Ontario stretchi...
Dec 26, 2025
'The year that the shoe dropped': How the Canada-U.S. relationship changed in 2025
WASHINGTON - The people anxiously sipping hot chocolate in the Canadian Embassy in Washington on a cold night in January almost a year ago couldn't have predicted the roller-coaster of trade provocati...
Dec 26, 2025
Group of U.S. distillers complains N.S. and other provinces favouring local alcohol
HALIFAX - A group of U.S. alcohol producers claims Canadian retailers are giving unfair advantage to local spirits, including what it calls "discriminatory" markups in Nova Scotia and other provinces....
Dec 25, 2025
Canadian Food Inspection Agency recalls vegan bacon product over undeclared wheat
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for a vegan bacon product sold in Ontario because it contains wheat, which doesn't appear on the list of ingredients. The agency says t...
Dec 24, 2025
Santa cleared for Christmas Eve travel, transport minister says
OTTAWA - The federal transport minister says Santa Claus has been cleared for travel in Canadian airspace. Steven MacKinnon released a video in which he authorizes Santa to deliver Christmas presents ...
Dec 24, 2025
Government suspending ban on single-use plastic exports
OTTAWA - The federal government is suspending the planned export ban on single-use plastics due to tariffs and supply chain issues "creating significant pressure on the domestic economy." The governme...
Dec 24, 2025
Ottawa runs budgetary deficit of $18.4 billion for April-to-October period
OTTAWA - The federal government ran a budgetary deficit of $18.4 billion for its April-to-October period. The result compared with a deficit of $14.5 billion for the same period a year earlier, accord...
Dec 24, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Our road to the World Cup begins
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