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'Love my job': Alberta teachers look to make ends meet in provincewide strike
EDMONTON - If Adrien Dominguez were teaching this week, he'd be introducing physics to a class of 38 high school students. Instead, the math and science teacher from High Prairie, northwest of Edmonto...
Oct 07, 2025
Five premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause
OTTAWA - Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights ...
Oct 07, 2025
Smith's plan threatens 'fragile' consensus over development of B.C. coast: Eby
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says a pipeline plan across northern B.C. by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threatens community support and social licence that would allow other major projects along the ...
Oct 07, 2025
Striking B.C. public service workers expand pickets again to more liquor stores
VANCOUVER - Too many wildland firefighters "hang up their boots" in British Columbia as wages and working conditions erode, but losing that experience could also mean billions in losses, a wildland fi...
Oct 07, 2025
MPs question Longest Ballot Committee organizer during study of spring election
OTTAWA - The protest group that signed up hundreds of candidates in recent elections went before a House of Commons committee today, where MPs asked them whether they're actually achieving their aims....
Oct 07, 2025 An example of a ballot for the riding of Carleton, showing the names of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Party of Canada candidate Bruce Fanjoy, is seen at the Elections Canada Distribution Centre on the day of the federal election in Ottawa on April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Ottawa, Ontario urge each other to help Marineland's belugas amid euthanasia threat
TORONTO - The federal and Ontario governments are urging each other to help 30 belugas at Marineland, which has threatened to euthanize the whales if the park does not receive emergency funds from Ott...
Oct 07, 2025
Carney government flags plan to retool much-maligned border security bill
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are indicating they plan to revamp their border security bill in response to widespread concerns about its impacts on civil liberties and privacy. Public Safety Minister ...
Oct 07, 2025
Quebec couple fight to stay in home expropriated for Lac-Mégantic, Que., rail bypass
MONTREAL - Two years after their home was expropriated to make way for a rail bypass, Lac-Mgantic, Que., resident Raymond Savoie and Rita Boulanger are still fighting to stay in the stone cottage wher...
Oct 07, 2025
Bills on high rent, lack of housing lost in rush to wrap N.S. legislature: NDP
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's NDP leader is highlighting a pair of her party's housing bills she says were lost in the government's rush to wrap up the fall sitting of the legislature. Claudia Chender says ...
Oct 07, 2025
Fiscal watchdog gives mixed review to Ottawa's budget framework changes
OTTAWA - Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says that while there are good ideas in the new budget framework the federal government announced this week, its definition of capital spending could blur the picture...
Oct 07, 2025
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