Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Palestine activists criticize Ottawa's go-slow approach to recognition of statehood
OTTAWA - As Ottawa warns its symbolic recognition of Palestinian statehood next week won't immediately lead to a full embassy, pro-Palestinian activists say the Liberals should not be imposing conditi...
Sep 18, 2025
Ontario doctors awarded compensation increases, family docs to be paid for admin work
TORONTO - Ontario's doctors have a new, four-year agreement with the province that will give them increased general compensation and see family doctors paid for administrative work, which they and the...
Sep 18, 2025
Canada Post sending new offers to union with aim of moving talks forward
Canada Post is sending new offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in an effort to move negotiations forward, the postal service said Thursday. The new terms will allow the two sides to return ...
Sep 18, 2025
Return on fall budget investments will help drive down deficit: Champagne
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the returns from Ottawa's capital spending plans in the upcoming fall budget will help to pay down the deficit in later years. He tells The Ca...
Sep 18, 2025 Finance and National Revenue Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Republican alleges FBI has names of Epstein clients, including 'billionaire' Canadian
WASHINGTON - A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday alleged the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has the names of some of the late Jeffrey Epstein's clients, including a "billionaire from Canada." Rep...
Sep 18, 2025
Escalation of B.C. public service strike hits citizens' services and gaming branch
BURNABY - Public service workers in British Columbia are again escalating job action, picketing a citizens' services office that issues services cards, processes freedom of information requests and fa...
Sep 18, 2025
Quebec politician to close Facebook page, unable to filter hate-filled posts, spam
MONTREAL - A member of Quebec's legislature says she will take down her professional Facebook page, unable to filter the hateful comments and spam it regularly attracts. Christine Labrie of leftist pa...
Sep 18, 2025
Trade corridor partnership connecting northern and southern Ontario announced
SAULT STE. MARIE - Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and the Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority have signed a partnership to develop a trade corridor connecting northern and southern Ontario. The corridor is expect...
Sep 18, 2025
Ontario public servant unions rally against return-to-office mandates by province
TORONTO - Hundreds of public servants rallied outside Queen's Park on Thursday to protest the province's return-to-office mandate, in the latest outcry from Canadian workers opposed to the waning of p...
Sep 18, 2025
Nova Scotia's Donald Oliver, first Black man named to Senate, dies at 86
HALIFAX - Donald Oliver, the first Black man appointed to the Senate of Canada, has died at the age of 86. Oliver's family in Nova Scotia confirmed the retired senator died Wednesday from a chronic he...
Sep 18, 2025
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