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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Conservatives maintain silence as strife continues between union, railways
OTTAWA - As railworkers push back on the Liberal government's effort to end a labour dispute that ground trains to a halt, the federal Conservatives have been silent on the strife that poses a major t...
Aug 23, 2024
The latest in the labour dispute at Canada's two biggest railways
The federal government is intervening in a countrywide work stoppage at Canada's two biggest railways, but railworkers are pushing back against Ottawa's move to get them back on the job. In the culmin...
Aug 23, 2024 The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference met with reporters in Calgary, with Teamsters Canada president Francois Laporte saying the union's legal team is looking at all available options. (The Canadian Press)
Montreal-area mayors say Quebec government has not delivered on promised flood relief
MONTREAL - A group of mayors from the Montreal region says the Quebec government has fallen short of its promise to increase financial aid for victims of torrential rain that hit the province earlier ...
Aug 23, 2024
Biggest diamond in over a century found in Botswana - 2,492 carats
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) - The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country's president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewi...
Aug 23, 2024
Teamsters take down picket lines at CN, stoppage continues at CPKC
OTTAWA - The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says it has taken down picket lines at Canadian National Railway Co. and its workers will begin returning to work on Friday. However, the union said the w...
Aug 23, 2024
Now is not time to balance B.C.'s budget, says Conroy as province posts $5B deficit
VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister says now is not the time to balance the province's budget. Katrine Conroy says the New Democratic government does plan for a balanced budget "in the futu...
Aug 22, 2024
Health minister puts nicotine pouches behind the counter, bans flavours
OTTAWA - Health Canada-approved nicotine pouches will only be available behind pharmacy counters starting next week, as part of Health Minister Mark Holland's promised crackdown on the sale of new nic...
Aug 22, 2024
A look at recent major railway strikes Canada
Shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt Thursday after months of increasingly bitter negotiations, threatening to upend supply chains still re...
Aug 22, 2024
Manitoba government says free prescription birth control will start in October
WINNIPEG - Manitobans will have access to free prescription birth control starting Oct. 1. The NDP government says that's the date it will fulfil a promise it made in last year's election campaign. Th...
Aug 22, 2024
Liberals move to force binding arbitration, return to work in railway labour dispute
OTTAWA - Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said Thursday the federal government has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to end the lockout at the country's two biggest rail companies, ordering ...
Aug 22, 2024
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