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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Ottawa moves forward on threat to use federal powers to help Quebec caribou
MONTREAL - Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he's moving forward on his threat to invoke federal powers to protect Quebec's declining woodland caribou herds. Guilbeault said Wednesda...
Jun 19, 2024
MPs hit summer campaign circuit as election year looms
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament poured out of the House of Commons into the stifling air of an Ottawa heat wave Wednesday, heading back to their constituencies for the summer barbecue and festival circ...
Jun 19, 2024
Ward 7 Councillor Mairin Loewen won't seek re-election this fall
Long-time Ward 7 Councillor Mairin Loewen says she won't run for city council again in November. Loewen, who was first elected in 2011, said she made up her mind after the 2020 election that this woul...
Jun 19, 2024 Loewen was first elected in 2011, but said she made the decision after the 2020 election that she wouldn't run for another term. (wardseven.ca)
Coalition of drug user groups wants court to quash B.C. drug 'recriminalization'
VANCOUVER - When the federal government allowed British Columbia to walk back its experiment with drug decriminalization, the move wasn't surprising to Brittany Maple, executive director of the Matsqu...
Jun 19, 2024
Nova Scotia's Lunenburg Municipality passes coastal protection regulations
HALIFAX - A rural municipality on Nova Scotia's South Shore has become the first to pass its own coastal protection regulations after the province abandoned its legislation earlier this year. The Muni...
Jun 19, 2024
LNG company plans to use 'floatel' near Squamish, B.C., without local permit
SQUAMISH, B.C. - The company behind a natural gas project near Squamish, B.C., has withdrawn its application for a local permit to house workers in a converted cruise ship, and is instead pressing ahe...
Jun 19, 2024
Premier defends comments addressing conspiracy theories at town hall
Premier Scott Moe is explaining himself for the first time after a video clip surfaced of the premier addressing questions around conspiracy theories at a town hall event. The town hall took place in ...
Jun 19, 2024
Ontario's open single-game sports-betting industry continues to thrive.
TORONTO - Ontario's single-game sports betting industry is on a winning streak. On Wednesday, iGaming Ontario (iGO) released a report that states the industry contributed $2.7 billion to Ontario's gro...
Jun 19, 2024
Feds delay B.C.'s open-net salmon farms closure until 2029, offer five-year renewals
VANCOUVER - With entrenched views on all sides of the salmon-farming debate in British Columbia, the federal government cast the issue five years down the road on Wednesday, saying aquaculture must mo...
Jun 19, 2024
NATO secretary-general urges Ottawa to meet its defence spending target
OTTAWA - Canada needs to meet NATO's minimum defence spending target, and present a plan on how it will reach it as a way to show authoritarian regimes that Western allies are aligned, said the allian...
Jun 19, 2024
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