Murray Wood: Of Easter bunny bells and Juicy Fruit gum
For Murray Wood, Easter brings to mind grandma's practical advice about repurposing, and some of life's little lessons.
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Canada and G7 security partners to focus on disrupting transnational organized crime
OTTAWA - Interior and security ministers from Canada and the other Group of Seven countries are pledging to work together to aggressively fight transnational organized crime. Wrapping up a two-day mee...
Nov 24, 2025 Eureka police operation manager Oliver Huth shows a hiding place in a converted SUV car, in which drugs were smuggled, during a press conference of the State Criminal Police Office in Duesseldorf, Germany, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Union leaders in Quebec denounce proposed labour law they say will unleash chaos
QUBEC - Union leaders from sectors across the province gathered in Quebec City on Sunday to decry a new bill they say could severely limit how unions are allowed to use dues collected from their membe...
Nov 23, 2025
Hospital staff back to work after AUPE reaches tentative deal
EDMONTON - The union representing 16,000 hospital workers says it reached a tentative agreement with Alberta's health authority a minute before its members hit the picket lines Saturday morning. Sandr...
Nov 22, 2025
Strike suspended as Canada Post reaches deal in principle with union
by Craig Lord, with files from Christopher Reynolds OTTAWA - Canada Post and the union representing thousands of its mail carriers took their biggest step toward ending a long saga of collective barga...
Nov 22, 2025 A Canada Post mailbox is pictured in Richmond B.C. on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns)
Canadian workers' free speech fears persist two years after Israel-Hamas war began
During the Israel-Hamas war, a Canadian paramedic was fired, a teacher was put on extended leave and a doctor's residency was suspended. All of them said they were penalized for criticizing Israel on ...
Nov 21, 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
B.C. health workers reach tentative four-year deal with employers
BURNABY - The bargaining association representing more than 67,000 health-care workers in British Columbia's hospitals and long-term care facilities says it has reached a new four-year deal with its e...
Nov 18, 2025
Canada Post expects to lose 30K employees to retirement, voluntary departures by 2035
OTTAWA - With Canada Post facing deep losses, the Crown corporation's CEO said Tuesday the company expects to lose up to 30,000 employees to retirement or voluntary departure over the next decade as i...
Nov 18, 2025
Group gets trapped after elevator in new light rail station breaks down
MONTREAL - Younes Rebbouhi said he initially thought it was funny when he realized he was on an elevator that had stopped moving, late Monday afternoon. Rebbouhi says he was among about 20 people desc...
Nov 18, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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