Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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New federal energy minister tells oil and gas execs it's time for some quick wins
CALGARY - Canada's new energy minister walked into the lion's den Friday and spoke to oil and gas executives in Calgary about Ottawa's plans to turn the country into an energy superpower. "I'm not her...
May 23, 2025
Lawyer challenging Trump's trade war says tariffs are 'illegal and abusive'
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's global trade war is an "illegal and abusive" use of power, said a lawyer representing small businesses who are challenging the tariffs. George Mason Universi...
May 23, 2025
Several MPs make pitches to colleagues to become next Speaker of the House of Commons
OTTAWA - Among the tour groups converging on Parliament Hill under umbrellas this week, new and newly re-elected members of Parliament are getting acquainted with their offices and colleagues ahead of...
May 23, 2025
'Panic and confusion' for Canadians at Harvard after Trump bans foreign students
Harvard University student Thomas Mete was picking up his brother from high school in Ridgeway, Ont., when he got the news that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was barring the Ivy League ...
May 23, 2025
CRA cutting up to 280 permanent jobs in response to fiscal constraints
OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency is cutting up to 280 permanent employees in response to fiscal constraints. The workforce changes will impact branches across the CRA but the reductions will mainly ...
May 23, 2025 Canadian Revenue Agency signage is shown in Ottawa on Friday, June 28, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Conservatives hold onto Windsor riding by four votes after recount
OTTAWA - Conservative Kathy Borrelli has won the Ontario riding of Windsor-Windsor-Tecumseh-Lake Shore after a judicial recount confirmed her victory today by just four votes. The Liberals called for ...
May 23, 2025 An Elections Canada sign points the way to a polling station on federal election day in Chambly, Que., Monday, April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
N.B. announces 3-member panel who will review future of debt-laden power utility
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government has announced a three-person team who will lead a review of the province's debt-laden public power utility. The members are Michael Bernstein, who has worked...
May 23, 2025
Ontario adding 2,600 teacher candidate spaces amid shortage
TORONTO - Ontario is adding 2,600 spaces to teachers colleges across the province as it stares down a worsening teacher shortage, a move unions say is welcome though will not in isolation solve the pr...
May 23, 2025
'A political football': Canadian says his citizenship TV pitch was misrepresented
WASHINGTON - When Rob Worsoff recently dusted off an old idea he had for a reality television show about people on the path to United States citizenship, he had no idea of what he was letting himself ...
May 23, 2025
Ottawa has to allow home prices to fall to make housing more affordable, experts say
OTTAWA - Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister's recent claim that home prices don't need to go down in order to restore housing affordability. Gregor Robertson, the form...
May 23, 2025
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