This column is an opinion by Howard Anglin, a former senior aide to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ. Well, that’s one thing settled. After winning a majority of votes in the UCP leadership review, Jason Kenney announced he will step down as Alberta premier. At least he goes out on […]
The head of the Iranian national soccer team coming to Vancouver next month for a controversial exhibition game recently attended a party with a man wanted by the FBI in relation to a plot to kidnap international targets, including three people in Canada. The April 8 birthday party in Tehran was captured on camera and photographs were posted online. At […]
The economist Thomas Sowell once said that inflation is just a way to take people’s money without having to openly raise taxes. But you don’t have to tell that to Annette Murray and her husband Tom McGregor. The Vancouver couple, aged 64 and 59, live on disability pensions adding up to $37,000 a year. Or they used to. With higher […]
CBC News: The House48:41wild rose ruckus Former Alberta Premier Alison Redford talks about Jason Kenney’s decision to resign as leader of the UCP, once a new leader is chosen. Two experts discuss the government’s move to ban Huawei from this country’s telecom industry. More — Duane Smith of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation on how Canada can secure Arctic sovereignty, economist […]
Doug Ford and his Ontario Progressive Conservatives are aiming to draw a significant amount of support from voters who only eight months ago backed Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in the federal election. Winning over federal Liberal voters is a crucial ingredient for Ford to find a path to victory on June 2. The Ontario PCs simply cannot succeed with only […]
Taylor Raggers and her partner, Will Perry, were looking forward to their honeymoon in Newfoundland this summer before they realized they’d have no way of getting around the province. The couple, who live in Port Hope, Ont., tried to book a car back in February for a trip they planned to take in late June but were out of luck. […]
Ten children in Canada were found to be suffering from severe and mysterious cases of hepatitis over a recent five-month period, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), following an investigation into unexplained liver inflammation in children. The cases of “acute severe hepatitis” did not stem from the usual viruses — such as hepatitis A, B, C and […]
David Hawkins wasn’t alive during the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, but decades later, his organization is still working on dispelling harmful myths associated with the disease. “All these years later, it is still seen as being the gay disease, and it’s stuff like that that people still point to as the reason for the blood ban […]
Sürdürülebilirlik ve hareketlilik savunucuları, elektrikli arabalar, kamyonlar ve SUV’ler için nakit indirim programlarının e-bisikletleri de içerecek şekilde genişletilmesi gerektiğini söylüyor. E-bisikletler veya güç destekli bisikletler, geleneksel bisikletler gibi çalışır ancak pedal çevirirken hız sağlamak için pille çalışan bir elektrik motoruyla donatılmıştır. Ottawa’dan Erin O’Neil, Ontario Engellilik Destek Programı’nda (ODSP) ve 2.500 $ veya daha fazla fiyata kolayca perakende satış yapabilen, […]
The federal government is banning China’s Huawei Technologies from involvement in Canada’s 5G wireless network. Here’s a primer on what led up to this decision and what you need to know about this next-generation wireless technology: What is 5G? 5G technology gives Canadians faster phone and internet connections and provides vast data capacity amid growth in innovations and increased demand. […]
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