Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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'A no-brainer': Some bosses happily giving staff Monday off along with Canada Day
TORONTO - Anyone who works Monday to Friday and is keen for a long weekend this Canada Day has likely had to do a bit of calendar juggling to cope with the ill-timed holiday. The stat day falls on a T...
Jun 28, 2025 Anyone who works Monday to Friday and is keen for a long weekend this Canada Day has likely had to do a bit of calendar juggling to cope with the ill-timed holiday. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns)
Feds order Chinese tech firm to close Canadian operations over national security
The federal government has ordered a Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems to shutter its Canadian business and leave the country over national security concerns. Industry Minister Mlanie Joly ...
Jun 28, 2025
First Nations say Alberta data centre approach won't attract big tech players
CALGARY - The chiefs of four First Nations in Alberta say they're eager to take part in the province's nascent data centre industry, but argue the province is taking the wrong approach to attract larg...
Jun 27, 2025
Former PM Harper says military spending can address Arctic infrastructure gap
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper said Friday the best way to build much-needed infrastructure in the Arctic is through military spending. Speaking in Iqaluit during his first visit to the...
Jun 27, 2025
PM says negotiations continue as Trump says he's ending trade talks over digital tax
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he did not speak Friday with Donald Trump before the U.S. president announced a sudden end to trade negotiations in response to Ottawa's plans to push ahead wi...
Jun 27, 2025
Federal minister plans to hold consultations this summer on immigration intake
OTTAWA - The federal government will use this summer's planned consultation on immigration targets to guide future decisions about how many study visas it will issue to international students in the f...
Jun 27, 2025
Statistics Canada says real GDP down 0.1 per cent in April as manufacturing slowed
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product edged down 0.1 per cent in April as the manufacturing sector slowed. The agency also says its advance estimate for May points to another 0.1...
Jun 27, 2025 Canadian flags are seen flying behind the National Archives building in Ottawa Friday, Feb 14, 2025 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Saskatoon Chamber says local businesses absorbing costs of rising crime and vandalism
Businesses throughout Saskatoon are forced to shoulder the costs of rising crime and vandalism, according to a letter sent to city council by the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce. The letter, sen...
Jun 27, 2025 The Purrfect Cup Cat Cafe, a small business in downtown Saskatoon, had it's window smashed twice in just a few weeks. Once on Dec. 18, 2024 (left) and again on Jan. 6, 2025. (Sydney Sylvester/Submitted)
Final budget numbers land: Alberta posts $8.3-billion surplus in 2024-25 fiscal year
The final numbers are in on last year's Alberta budget, and the bottom-line figure is an $8.3-billion surplus. It's $2.5 billion more than officials had expected to get, and Finance Minister Nate Horn...
Jun 27, 2025
Major projects: How Bill C-5 works and why it alarms its critics
OTTAWA - Parliament has passed controversial major projects legislation that Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada needs to shore up its economy in the face of a trade war with the United States. Bil...
Jun 26, 2025
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Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
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