Murray Wood: Saskatchewan is winning the race to the bottom on minimum wage
An increase is coming for Saskatchewan's minimum-wage earners this fall, but Murray Wood says it will ensure they contin...
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Non-profit group says the number of unhoused people in Winnipeg is rising
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government said Monday it remains focused on its promise to eliminate chronic homelessness, even as new numbers suggested the problem in Winnipeg is growing. A report from End ...
Apr 13, 2026
Pause of Indigenous rights act won't be confidence vote, B.C. election prospect fades
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said he may extend the current legislative session to find support among individual First Nations over his plans to suspend parts of the Declaration on th...
Apr 13, 2026
B.C. Conservative member's bill on firefighter health passes in rare feat
VICTORIA - A bill by an Opposition Conservative in B.C.'s legislature about the health care of firefighters has passed through the legislature, an extremely rare occurrence for a private member's bill...
Apr 13, 2026
TKMS latest to team up with Quebec steel firm in sub competition
OTTAWA - German submarine maker TKMS is teaming up with a domestic steel-forging company as it vies for a lucrative contract to supply the Canadian navy with new submarines. TKMS says it inked a partn...
Apr 13, 2026
Minister reveals wage offer as hundreds of N.S. long-term care workers go on strike
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government said it was offering a pay increase of at least 12 per cent to hundreds of workers at long-term care facilities who launched a strike on Monday. Licensed practical...
Apr 13, 2026
B.C. health officer Bonnie Henry is disappointed by reversal of decriminalization
VICTORIA - Politicians and health experts are looking back at the successes and mistakes made during in the decade of a public health emergency into the toxic drug crisis in British Columbia. Provinci...
Apr 13, 2026
With elections near, Quebec premier-designate under tight deadline to revive CAQ
MONTREAL - Christine Frchette, newly elected Coalition Avenir Qubec leader and premier-designate, has a bit more than five months to revive her party before the provincial elections, and to define her...
Apr 13, 2026
Clean energy groups call for East-West grid connections, investments in renewables
OTTAWA - A coalition of clean energy groups is calling on Ottawa to connect the country through a grid powered by renewable energy. The David Suzuki Foundation says Canada is facing an energy affordab...
Apr 13, 2026
Brent Cotter, ethics expert and former senator, named interim head of RCMP watchdog
OTTAWA - The Liberal government has named well-known legal ethicist and former senator Brent Cotter to be the interim head of the RCMP watchdog. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says Cotter ...
Apr 13, 2026 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at an event to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities while Employment, Workforce Development and Disability inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough and Senator Brent Cotter look on in Ottawa on Tuesday, November 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Jobs minister urges youth to pursue skilled trades despite generational stigma
OTTAWA - Canada must break the stigma around careers in the skilled trades if the Liberals want to achieve their infrastructure and homebuilding agenda, federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said on Monda...
Apr 13, 2026
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