Unpublished Newswire

As we celebrate Canada this week, and everything that makes this country great, we’ve shined the spotlight on the country’s top figures and top tourist destinations. On Monday, it was Canada’s most inspirational musicians. On Tuesday, it was a list of the best Prime Ministers to serve this great nation. Today, guest host Chris Holski shifts the conversation to the world of comedy, and the Canadians that tickle the funny bone better than anyone else. And who better to kickstart this debate than Colin Mochrie, a Scottish-born actor that has made a living in Canada as an...

OTTAWA — Karen Restoule, the director of Indigenous affairs at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says she was struck by the number of times she heard the word “Indigenous” during Thursday’s federal-Alberta announcement regarding a new West Coast oil pipeline. “(Prime Minister Mark) Carney and (Alberta Premier Danielle) Smith must have both said ‘Indigenous’ or ‘First Nations’ at least a dozen times each,” said Restoule. “I honestly lost track.” Carney and Smith appeared together in Calgary to announce that they’d agreed on a route for a new pipeline, running southwest from Bruderheim,...