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Former Calgary councillor accused of lying on travel expenses guilty of fraud
CALGARY - While serving as Calgary city councillor, Joe Magliocca claimed he was hosting and meeting with politicians across the country -- including a Quebec cabinet minister, Ontario's NDP leader an...
Jan 27, 2025
Land long reserved for possible Pickering airport will go to Parks Canada: minister
After more than a half century in limbo, the federal government has abandoned plans for an airport at a site in Pickering, Ont., and will instead look to expand the area's urban national park. Transpo...
Jan 27, 2025
Ford's decision to speed up alcohol sales expansion will cost province $612M: report
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford's decision to speed up the rollout of alcohol sales in corner stores - which first sparked early election speculation last spring - will cost the province more than $600 mi...
Jan 27, 2025
Trump says Canada should be part of U.S. Our head of state isn't weighing in.
OTTAWA - Canada's political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the "51st state," as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched. The heads o...
Jan 27, 2025
Economists expect sixth straight - but modest - rate cut from Bank of Canada
TORONTO - Economic forecasts suggest the Bank of Canada will likely lower its key policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday in light of recent inflation and jobs data, bringing it do...
Jan 27, 2025
Auschwitz survivors fear rising hate could bring on another Holocaust 80 years later
KRAKOW - As she prepared to return to Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday, Miriam Ziegler vividly recalled how it felt to be a little girl orphaned by the Nazis and left alone in a world ruined by war. Eight...
Jan 27, 2025
Foreign Affairs Minister Joly says Canadian released from detention in Afghanistan
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canadian David Lavery has safely made it to Qatar from Afghanistan with the help of the Qatari government. The Canadian Armed Forces veteran went mi...
Jan 26, 2025
B.C.-based climate activist deported to Pakistan after protest charges
British Columbia-based environmental activist Zain Haq was aboard a plane in Toronto on Sunday afternoon, awaiting a nearly 14-hour flight to Pakistan, where he said he was looking forward to seeing h...
Jan 26, 2025
B.C. chief wants Oscar-nominated residential school film to be part of curriculum
Warning: This story contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting to some readers. Find the 24-hour Indian Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - An Os...
Jan 26, 2025 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars, and Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations Marc Miller walk together on the former grounds of St. Joseph's Mission Residential School, in Williams Lake, B.C., on March 30, 2022. An Academy-Award-nominated film that follows an investigation into deaths, abuse and missing children at a former British Columbia residential school should be shown in schools across Canada, says a First Nations leader. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Public service productivity study group not looking at remote work, says member
OTTAWA - The working group tasked with measuring productivity within Canada's federal public service has not looked at remote work, one of its members says. Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labou...
Jan 26, 2025
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Evan welcomes Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe to tackle the current hot topics in the province on Wednesday, plus discuss...
