Ontario’s energy minister is set to announce a $1 billion plan to extend the life of the biggest hydroelectric dams in the province. The project involves refurbishing the Sir Adam Beck I and II generating stations along the Niagara River, which between them account for nine per cent of all electricity produced in Ontario each year….
The company that owns the Winnipeg Jets says it’s never lost money since the NHL returned to Winnipeg in 2011, not even during a recent downturn in ticket sales at Canada Life Centre. True North Sports & Entertainment has turned a profit on its combined hockey, arena and merchandising operations every year the NHL has been in Winnipeg, executive chair Mark…
The Liberal government faces a slowing economy and an uphill battle in the polls as it prepares to table its 2024 federal budget on Tuesday. Global News spoke to Canada’s former parliamentary budget officer ahead of April 16, who said he’s expecting a tight spending plan with little room for surprises or hotly demanded relief…
Free tuition for doctors. Public exercise programs. Bringing in the military. These were just a few of the 2,200 ideas submitted by health-care workers who entered the provincial government’s contest last fall seeking quick, easy, and low-cost ideas to improve the Nova Scotian health-care system. For a month, they were invited to submit an idea that would be entered in…
Canada lost the women’s world hockey championship gold medal on home ice to the United States last year, so poetic justice will be on the minds of Canadian players Sunday in Utica, N.Y. The two countries will clash for women’s international ice hockey supremacy at the Adirondack Bank Center a year after the U.S. doubled…
With the unveiling of the 2024 federal budget just around the corner, Canadians may be anxiously awaiting insights into the government’s plans for tackling the ongoing strains on the nation’s health-care system. The federal budget is set to be tabled Tuesday, with the Liberal government already unveiling plans for a national food program as well…
White Coat Black Art26:30Preventing the next Belleville At The Mill on Main restaurant in Huntsville, Ont., manager Michelle Francis is placing a naloxone kit near the wood-burning pizza oven behind the bar, within easy reach for staff — just in case. “It has two nasal sprays in there,” she told White Coat, Black Art‘s Dr….
Max Homa played the most beautifully boring round of golf amid raging wind and endless calamity Friday in the Masters, giving him a share of the lead with Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau going into a weekend for the survivors. Homa made 15 pars — they all felt so much better than that — for…
Are car headlights too bright these days? The U.K. announced in late March that it will commission an independent study into glare from bright car headlights, but it is unclear whether Canada could — or should — do the same. The intention for a study in the U.K. comes after a petition called for action…
With absolutely no exceptions, every defence policy presented by the Canadian government over the past five decades has presented a vision of the world beyond our borders going to hell in a handbasket. The wars may be different, the adversaries might change, threats might have evolved — but the language almost always stays the same. And…
