Murray Wood: Feint by numbers?
The City of Regina is using some interesting math to justify why it should sell a big chunk of its exhibition associatio...
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Some bundled wireless plans not as cheap as before Rogers-Shaw merger: watchdog
Certain cellphone plans in Western Canada are not as cheap as they were prior to the Rogers-Shaw merger, Canada's competition watchdog says. Jeanne Pratt, the Competition Bureau's senior deputy commis...
Feb 26, 2024
N.B. municipality spent $19K to investigate councillor over giant bird statue
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick town councillor says the release of an investigation into her efforts to bring a giant bird sculpture to the community is a "victory" - even though it led to sanctions ag...
Feb 26, 2024
$454 million judgment against Trump is finalized, starting clock on appeal in civil fraud case
NEW YORK (AP) - The staggering civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump was finalized in New York on Friday, making official a verdict that leaves the former president on the hook for more than $454 ...
Feb 23, 2024
Senators urge Biden to end duty-free treatment for packages valued at less than $800
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two U.S. senators looking to crack down on the number of packages from China that enter the country duty-free are calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action, saying U.S....
Feb 23, 2024
Alberta regulator accepts Rockies coal mine application, will call public hearing
Alberta's energy regulator has accepted initial applications and is to open public hearings for a controversial open-pit coal mine on the eastern slopes of the province's southern Rocky Mountains that...
Feb 23, 2024
Federal government posts $23.6B deficit for April-to-December period
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $23.6 billion for the first nine months of its 2023-24 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $5.5 billion for the same stretc...
Feb 23, 2024
CFIB says 85% of small businesses oppose carbon tax as Ottawa rejigs rebates
Ottawa is changing the formula for allocating carbon tax revenues, directing more of the money away from small businesses and towards consumers. According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Bus...
Feb 22, 2024 CFIB president Dan Kelly says the carbon pricing plan "stopped being about climate change some time ago." (650 CKOM file photo)
Online fundraisers for violent West Bank settlers raised thousands, despite international sanctions
JERUSALEM (AP) - When the Biden administration imposed sanctions this month against Israeli settler Yinon Levi for allegedly assaulting Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, his supporters ...
Feb 22, 2024
DeSantis calls takeover of Disney government a 'success' despite worker exodus, litigation
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Almost a year after state lawmakers passed a law giving Florida's governor control over Walt Disney World's governing district, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday called the takeover a...
Feb 22, 2024
Claws come out for federal minister who shared picture of lobster lunch in Asia
FREDERICTON - A photo of federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay eating lobster in Malaysia during an official trip has some people seeing red. Shared Sunday on the minister's profile on the X ...
Feb 22, 2024
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