A former parliamentary budget officer says it is “just wrong” to suggest that the federal finances are unsustainable and is publicly disagreeing with the current fiscal watchdog. Kevin Page — who was Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer (PBO) starting in 2008 — told CBC’s Power & Politics that he disagrees with the language of the…
Soccer The Northern Super League unveiled its championship trophy, the Diana B. Matheson Cup, on Thursday in honour of its chief growth officer. Former national team midfielder driving force behind Canadian women’s soccer league The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 02, 2025 2:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago Source link
Emergency demolition has been taking place at the site of the former Ogden legion and curling club ever since a fire broke out Wednesday morning. It’s the most movement on the site some residents have seen in more than a decade. “It’s just really unfortunate because it was really a nice, proud building,” said Zev…
For Tim Lang, the smell in the hallway of Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital has lingered. Lang visited his mother there last week after she was taken to hospital to get an MRI after suffering a stroke. His mother spent three days in the hospital’s hallway last week awaiting the MRI. And Lang, who lives in…
The WNBA finals start Friday, but it’s not the matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury that has basketball fans talking. It’s the matchup between Minnesota Lynx’s five-times All-Star Napheesa Collier and WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after Collier ripped into the WNBA’s leadership in a post-season media conference Tuesday. Collier, a vice president with the WNBA players’ union and co-founder of…
Mosaic Books in downtown Kelowna, B.C., has seen its fair share of disruptions, many of them at the hands of repeat offenders. “Our business downtown has been plagued with this for so long, we’ve just kind of given up,” said Mosaic Books owner Michael Neill. Neill said shoplifting, loitering and property damage are among the…
A B.C. Conservative Party staffer who called the orange Survivors’ flag — which honours residential school survivors — a “disgrace” and a “fake flag” on social media has been fired. Lindsay Shepherd, who had worked as a communications officer for the B.C. Conservative caucus, faced widespread criticism after her posts on the social media platform X late last week….
Canada and the United States will square off in a women’s flag football exhibition this weekend. The two squads will meet at halftime of the Buffalo Bills’ home game Sunday versus the New England Patriots at Highmark Stadium. They’ll participate in an eight-minute contest. It will mark the first time that international women’s flag football teams…
At least 12 Starbucks locations were closed around B.C. over the weekend, leaving staff and customers shocked by some of the closures. Global News has confirmed at least 12 locations, from Victoria to Revelstoke, have shuttered since Saturday. Starbucks confirmed last Thursday that the company will be laying off around 900 non-retail employees in the…
The third of three sperm whales stranded off P.E.I.’s North Shore has died, a day after the first two massive creatures were confirmed to have perished, according to the executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society. “What was decided yesterday, in the sense of the best thing for the animal and obviously with human…
