Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News
'Exploitative' trucker loophole to addressed in upcoming budget
OTTAWA - Finance minister Franois-Philippe Champagne will use Tuesday's federal budget to close a tax loophole critics say is exploiting workers and creating unfair labour practices in the trucking in...
Oct 31, 2025
Weak GDP report unlikely to sway Bank of Canada to more rate cuts: economists
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy was showing more cracks in August, but most economists weighing in on the latest data say they don't think the Bank of Canada will respond with more rate cuts anytime soo...
Oct 31, 2025
Quebec order of physicians urges government to suspend controversial doctor-pay law
MONTREAL - Quebec's professional order of physicians has called for an immediate suspension of a provincial law that ties doctors' pay to performance targets and threatens punitive damages over action...
Oct 31, 2025
Analysts say Carney-Xi meeting set right tone, urge caution on next steps
OTTAWA - Some analysts say Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping might set the right tone in moving the bilateral relationship forward, though they also urge caution. ...
Oct 31, 2025
Vaccine records aren't up to date for more than half of Ottawa, Toronto students assessed: public health
TORONTO - Public health records for Ottawa and Toronto schools show that among the cohorts assessed this year, more than half of the students did not have up-to-date immunization records, which expert...
Oct 31, 2025
Former refugee believes she wouldn't have been able to stay with proposed border bill
OTTAWA - A trans woman does not believe she would have been able to stay in Canada if the refugee rules outlined in the government's new border bill were in effect. Asya Medea came to Canada in 2018 o...
Oct 31, 2025
Supreme Court to decide on Nov. 6 whether to hear case of B.C. ostriches
The Supreme Court of Canada is set to issue a decision next week on whether to hear a last-ditch appeal against an ordered cull of ostriches at a British Columbia farm. A list of leave applications th...
Oct 31, 2025
Upset with new doctor law, students at all four Quebec medical schools vote to strike
MONTREAL - Students at Quebec's four medical schools have voted for an unlimited general strike mandate over a new provincial law that ties part of doctors' remuneration to performance targets. Medica...
Oct 31, 2025
With negotiations at an impasse, Montrealers brace for four-week transit strike
MONTREAL - Montreal's bus and metro system will be paralyzed entirely on Saturday, with service restricted for most of November. The union representing about 4,500 bus and metro drivers says the strik...
Oct 31, 2025
Mandatory minimum child pornography sentences unconstitutional, Supreme Court rules
OTTAWA - The one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday. In a 5-4 decision, the top court...
Oct 31, 2025
