31 minutes ago Canada’s women’s pro sports landscape transformed with arrival of PWHL, NSL and WNBA

The Professional Women’s Hockey League played a first season and started a second, the Northern Super League fired its engines for an all-Canadian women’s soccer launch, and the WNBA announced its arrival in Canada. Women’s professional sports in Canada reached a critical mass in 2024. “It was hard to believe in 2023 that we didn’t […]

Sport

16 hours ago Edmonton educational assistants reject latest wage cap offer, strike impending

CUPE Local 3550, the union that represents EAs, says this means a strike could happen in the new year if they can’t reach a fair deal.

Other

16 hours ago Big streaming companies won’t have to make Canadian content payments until court appeal heard

Global streamers like Netflix challenged a CRTC ruling that foreign streamers must pay 5% of their annual Canadian revenues to a Canadian content fund

Economics

17 hours ago DEMESNE RESOURCES LTD. ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF A THIRD TRANCHE OF PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED PRIVATE PLACEMENT FINANCING

– NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OR THROUGH U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES – Vancouver, BC, Dec. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Demesne Resources Ltd. (CSE:DEME) (OTCQB:DEMRF) (“Demesne” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has completed the third tranche (the “Third Tranche”) of its previously announced non-brokered private placement financing (the “Offering”). […]

Other

17 hours ago Court hits pause on global streamers’ upcoming Canadian content payments

OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal says big streaming companies won’t have to pay for Canadian content until the court hears their appeal of a CRTC decision ordering them to pay. In June, the CRTC said that foreign streamers must contribute five per cent of their annual Canadian revenues to a fund devoted to […]

Other

18 hours ago Economists warn of ‘perfect storm’ hitting weak Canadian dollar as 2025 looms

The Bank of Canada is hoping the diverging interest rate will spur investment but it could take a few years to stabilize, which is affecting some of the economic outlooks.

Culture

20 hours ago Wanted Canadian man with alleged ties to Hells Angels, drug trafficking gunned down in Mexico

Mathieu Bélanger, 39, had been on the run from Quebec police since 2022

Events

25 hours ago Pioneering Metis human rights advocate Muriel Stanley Venne dies at 87

"Her work in justice profoundly influenced how Canadian law and the criminal justice system respond to systemic violence against Indigenous women"

Events

26 hours ago Canadian should prepare for spring election, even if Trudeau stays on: experts

Canada appears to be barrelling toward a spring election now that the NDP is vowing to vote down the government early next year — whether Trudeau stays on or not.

Politics