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Top bureaucrat gets profane messages after defending government on SNC-Lavalin
OTTAWA - The country’s top public servant received profanity-laced social-media messages calling him “garbage,” a “traitor,” a “loser” and a “liar”...
Mar 07, 2019
Consumers win in Manitoba budget; health and education lose
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government tabled its 2019-20 budget on Thursday. Here’s an idea of who will be happy and who might not be pleased. WINNERS: - Families and b...
Mar 07, 2019
Storm keeps Trudeau from landing in Iqaluit for apology to Inuit
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Just when the prime minister was escaping the political controversy swirling in the nation’s capital - at least for a few hours - Mother Nature let him know she had other plan...
Mar 07, 2019
"We really need to pay attention to our schools”; MLA McCuaig-Boyd
The NDP is saying they want to put education as a top priority heading into the spring provincial election. This comes after UCP education critic Mark Smith claimed at an all-party education forum in ...
Mar 07, 2019
Trudeau acknowledges 'erosion of trust' between office and former minister
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to put the SNC-Lavalin affair behind him Thursday, attributing the controversy to a breakdown between his staff and former attorney general Jody Wilson-Ray...
Mar 07, 2019
Manitoba budget: Provincial sales tax to drop; spending tightly controlled
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government introduced its 2019-2020 budget on Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: - The provincial sales tax is to drop to seven per cent fr...
Mar 07, 2019
A nanny state? Vermont town elects goat as honorary mayor
FAIR HAVEN, Vt. - A 3-year-old Nubian goat named Lincoln is poised to become the first honorary pet mayor of the small Vermont town of Fair Haven. The nanny goat was chosen this week by townspeople fo...
Mar 07, 2019
Canada looks to end Americas Rugby Championship on winning note against U.S.
Four games into the Americas Rugby Championship, Canada only has one win. And things don’t get any easier Friday night when the 21st-ranked Canadian men wrap up tournament play against the 15th-...
Mar 07, 2019
New faces on Canadian women's hockey team for world championship in Finland
CALGARY - Six players will make their women’s world hockey championship debut for Canada next month. Forwards Melodie Daoust of Valleyfield, Que., Ann-Sophie Bettez of Sept Iles, Que., Sarah Nur...
Mar 07, 2019
Eugenie Bouchard-based rom-com in the works based on tennis star's Twitter date
The story of Eugenie Bouchard’s Twitter date with a fan who won a Super Bowl bet with the Canadian tennis star could be making its way to the big screen. A report on the “Deadline” w...
Mar 07, 2019