Murray Wood: Of politics and principles
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N.B. opposition parties slam Premier Susan Holt's plan for spending cuts
FREDERICTON - Opposition leaders in New Brunswick are criticizing Premier Susan Holt's plan to curb spending, saying the government can't cut its way out of its perilous financial situation. Holt told...
Jan 30, 2026
Insurance policy doesn't entitle family to additional rebuilding costs: Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with an insurance company in a dispute over coverage for a family whose home on the Ottawa River was declared a total loss due to flooding. Trillium Mutu...
Jan 30, 2026
Warsh's challenge: Navigating Fed independence and Trump's demands
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kevin Warsh has sought the job of Federal Reserve chair since President Donald Trump first considered him for the position nearly a decade ago. Now that he is in line for the job, th...
Jan 30, 2026
Federal deficit $26.4B for April-to-November period: fiscal monitor
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a deficit of $26.4 billion for the first eight months of its 2025-26 fiscal year. In its fiscal monitor, the Finance Department says the result compared with a d...
Jan 30, 2026
Warsh's challenge: Navigating Fed independence and Trump's demands
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kevin Warsh has sought the job of Federal Reserve chair, off and on, since President Donald Trump first considered him for the position nearly a decade ago. Now that he is in line fo...
Jan 30, 2026
Ottawa wins Federal Court appeal allowing single-use plastics ban to stand
OTTAWA - The federal government scored a win at the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday, which upheld Ottawa's 2021 decision to list "plastic manufactured items" as toxic, allowing it to continue with i...
Jan 30, 2026
CFIA official tells of threats and harassment that dogged ostrich cull operation
As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a seni...
Jan 30, 2026 A CFIA employee in a protective suit interacts with ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the farm’s appeal against an order to cull more than 300 of its ostriches on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Alberta separatist says members of Smith's caucus have signed referendum petition
EDMONTON - A leader of Alberta's separatist movement says some members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus have signed the petition looking to force a vote on the province qui...
Jan 30, 2026
U.S. faceoff with Cuba could put Canada 'in a vise grip': former ambassador
OTTAWA - As Canada warns travellers of food and electricity shortages in Cuba, experts say any move by the U.S. to overthrow the island's communist leadership would put Canada in a bind much worse tha...
Jan 30, 2026
Manitoba nurse stripped of licence after wrongly giving patient drugs
WINNIPEG - A registered nurse who wrongly administered fentanyl, nearly killing a patient, and asked a doctor to approve the move after the fact has been stripped of her licence by Manitoba's nursing ...
Jan 29, 2026
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