Murray Wood: Saskatchewan is winning the race to the bottom on minimum wage
An increase is coming for Saskatchewan's minimum-wage earners this fall, but Murray Wood says it will ensure they contin...
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Solutions are slow to come for water crisis plaguing Quebec's Nunavik region
PUVIRNITUQ - Most Quebecers have only to twist a tap to get a seemingly endless source of clean water. The reality is completely different in the northern region of Nunavik, where the water supply sys...
Nov 22, 2025
Ottawa is 'rebooting' its relationship with the tech industry, advocates say
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney told a business crowd in Montreal recently that the federal government got a bit of outside help on a major piece of innovation policy in the recently passed federa...
Nov 22, 2025
Carney in South Africa as concerns grow over U.S. boycott of G20
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in South Africa for a G20 summit overshadowed by a U.S. boycott - and as critics of Canada's Africa strategy closely watch Carney's first trip to the regio...
Nov 21, 2025
Canada Post says another bailout needed as it continues to bleed cash
After starting the year with a $1-billion federal loan, Canada Post says it will need another bailout within a month or two as the Crown corporation hemorrhages cash, putting it on track for its worst...
Nov 21, 2025
Nolan Dyck, third member of Alberta premier's caucus, faces recall petition drive
EDMONTON - A third member of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus is officially the target of a petition to get him recalled from his job as a member of the legislature. Elections...
Nov 21, 2025
Dairy, whiskey, wine and steel: American industries weigh in on trade pact review
WASHINGTON - American industries ranging from whiskey makers and Wisconsin dairy producers to steel and automobile associations are weighing in on the future of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on tra...
Nov 21, 2025 United States President Donald Trump walks with workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant on Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Saab CEO says plan to build Gripen jets in Canada depends on Ottawa making an order
OTTAWA - Saab's CEO is making it clear that his company's decision on whether to set up shop in Canada will depend on whether Ottawa decides to buy its Gripen aircraft. "To transfer technology and bui...
Nov 21, 2025
Sidhu: $6-billion trade infrastructure fund key to doubling non-U.S. exports
OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said he's witnessed a sea change in interest for Canadian exports headed outside the United States amid the ongoing tariff war with the U.S. Sidhu ...
Nov 21, 2025
How crypto raiders tortured B.C. family with waterboarding, sex assault, in $2M heist
PORT COQUITLAM - When a woman answered a knock at the door of her home in Port Moody, B.C., in the spring of 2024, she was met by two men in Canada Post uniforms who said they had a package to deliver...
Nov 21, 2025
Expert report calls on Ottawa to fund essential medicines, enshrine pharmacare in law
OTTAWA - Canada should create a pharmacare system that offers free access to essential medicines to anyone with a health card and allows private insurance to continue playing a role, an expert committ...
Nov 21, 2025
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