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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Trudeau promises 'stronger measures' for screening at Canada-U.S. border
WASHINGTON - The federal government is planning stronger measures to deal with a looming influx of people arriving from the United States, a clear sign Can...
May 12, 2020
Prisoner suing Ottawa over safety of inmates during COVID-19 pandemic
Physical distancing measures in correctional institutions during COVID-19 have been "grossly inadequate" putting the health and safety of prisoners at risk, alleges a lawsuit against th...
May 12, 2020
Feds pledge one-time benefit top-up to seniors in COVID-19 aid
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the possibility of extending emergency federal aid programs to ease the economic burden from COVID-19 as his government announced one-time payments for se...
May 12, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:05 p.m. B.C. has just seven new cases of COVID-19, but one more person from a long-term care home has died. The death t...
May 12, 2020
Russian president's spokesman hospitalized with coronavirus
MOSCOW - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has been hospitalized with the coronavirus, the latest in a series of setbacks for President Vladimir Putin as Russia struggles to contain the growing outbreak...
May 12, 2020
Archaic paper records submitted by fax hold up real-time COVID-19 data
OTTAWA - The old-fashioned way Canada records deaths means the country could be missing out on data important to addressing the COVID-19 crisis. The confirmed number of COVID-19 deaths -&nbs...
May 12, 2020
A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown
Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: ...
May 12, 2020
COVID-19 deaths pass 5,000 in Canada; seniors to get direct financial aid
TORONTO - Canada's death toll from COVID-19 passed the 5,000-mark on Tuesday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the pandemic had exposed serious cracks in Canada's hard hit long-term care that gove...
May 12, 2020
Being out in public is stressful in pandemic era, new survey suggests
OTTAWA - As restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 persist, a new survey suggests more than half of Canadians find it stressful to venture out in public. In a web survey conducted by poll...
May 12, 2020
Ottawa examining new, existing tools to get web giants to pay up: Guilbeault
OTTAWA - The federal heritage minister says if new tools are needed to get digital giants to pay for Canadian content, they will be built. Steven Guilbeault says he is watching how other countrie...
May 12, 2020
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Sarah Mills: CUSMA negotiations are telling in what is not being said
Like most negotiations, Canada and the U.S. are laying their cards on the table publicly, but Sarah Mills says in Canada...
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