Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Canada Post union files labour practices complaint
OTTAWA - The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against Canada Post related to ongoing contract bargaining. The union alleges in the complaint that ...
Jun 05, 2025 A Canada Post employee drives a mail truck at a delivery depot in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Canada Post trucks, conveyors and mail carriers are moving again after a month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers left letters and parcels in limbo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Governments to give financial aid to wildfire evacuees in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
The federal and provincial governments have announced they will match Red Cross donations to help those affected by wildfires burning in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Both provinces declared provincewide...
Jun 05, 2025 Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force help the Munroe family board a C-130 Hercules aircraft in Norway House, Man., Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at the Norway House Airport as crews continue to fight wildfires in northern Manitoba. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Lipnowski
David Jolly, a Trump critic and former GOP congressman, to run for Florida governor as a Democrat
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A former Republican congressman and vocal critic of Donald Trump says he wants to become governor in the president's adopted home state of Florida, and that he's running as a ...
Jun 05, 2025
More than 2,200 died of opioids in Ontario last year as numbers trend downward: data
TORONTO - More than 2,200 Ontarians died from opioids last year, a 15 per cent decrease from 2023, newly released data from the Office of the Chief Coroner shows. "What goes through my head is a small...
Jun 05, 2025
B.C. First Nation builds small island, fisheries officials check for habitat damage
VICTORIA - A British Columbia First Nation has built up a small artificial island in the tidal shallows of Coles Bay off Vancouver Island, triggering an investigation by fisheries officials into wheth...
Jun 05, 2025
Kananaskis golf course getting ready for G7, possible Trump visit
KANANASKIS - Darren Robinson had some very important news to tell U.S. president George Bush and Jos Mara Aznar, the prime minister of Spain. The pro shop was open. Aznar had told Robinson, general ma...
Jun 05, 2025
Canadians divided on whether U.S. is an 'ally' or 'enemy' country: Poll
OTTAWA - Faced with a trade war they didn't start, Canadians are divided on whether they see the United States as an "enemy" or an "ally," a new poll suggests. The Leger poll, which was conducted onli...
Jun 05, 2025
Ottawa silent on tariff retaliation as Carney takes part in talks with Trump
OTTAWA - Ottawa held its fire for a second day in a row Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump doubled his steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 per cent - despite numerous calls for Canada to swiftly ...
Jun 05, 2025
Canadian men, children held in Syria pursue human rights complaints against Ottawa
OTTAWA - A dozen Canadian men and children detained in Syria are complaining to the Canadian Human Rights Commission that Ottawa is discriminating against them by not assisting their return to Canada....
Jun 05, 2025
Infrastructure Bank CEO says it's ready to play a role in national-interest projects
CALGARY - The chief executive of the Canada Infrastructure Bank says the Crown corporation is looking forward to playing a role in Ottawa's ambitions to push ahead major projects deemed in the nationa...
Jun 05, 2025
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