Sarah Mills: We came so close to the zipper merge
Three block of two lanes of traffic merging one by one, with everyone inching forward. It was the zipper merge in action...
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Canada’s asylum system unable to respond to spikes in claims, auditor finds
OTTAWA - Canada's refugee system is plagued with a backlog of asylum claims that is worse now than it has ever been, caused in part by systemic inefficiencies, according to findings from acting audito...
May 07, 2019
Canada will bear cost of repatriating trash-filled containers from Philippines
OTTAWA - Canada has agreed to pay the full cost of bringing 69 garbage-laden shipping containers back across the Pacific Ocean to Vancouver - but it remains unclear how much it will cost and when it w...
May 07, 2019
Saskatchewan carbon capture facility likely to fall short of annual target: CEO
The CEO of SaskPower says he doesn't think the province's carbon capture and storage facility will be able to meet its yearly target for trapping carbon dioxide. Mike Marsh says the Crown corporation'...
May 07, 2019
Roughriders release veteran kicker Crapigna
Tyler Crapigna saw it coming. The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Tuesday that they had released Crapigna, who kicked for them for two-plus seasons. Crapigna missed the 2018 season with an in...
May 07, 2019 Courtesy Saskatchewan Roughriders
Man charged with second-degree murder in deaths of Calgary woman, toddler
CALGARY - A man suspected of killing a woman and her toddler daughter has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Robert Andrew Leeming, 34, appeared via video before a justice of the pe...
May 07, 2019 Calgary Police Service headquarters in Calgary, Alta., Monday, May 6, 2019.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Dead end: Millions of calls to government go unanswered, AG finds
OTTAWA - Half of the 16 million Canadians trying to reach one of three government agencies by telephone are unable to speak to live humans, according to Canada's interim auditor general. In a new repo...
May 07, 2019
Canada calls out China at WTO council meeting for evidence to back canola ban
OTTAWA - Canada has used a major World Trade Organization gathering to demand China deliver evidence that Canadian canola is contaminated. Stephen de Boer, the Canadian ambassador to the world's leadi...
May 07, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fred Dufour, Pool Photo)
RCMP not fully prepared for active shooters five years after Moncton: auditor
OTTAWA - The RCMP isn't sure that all its officers have access to the rifles and body armour they need to respond to an active shooter, almost five years after three Mounties were gunned down in New B...
May 07, 2019
Pressured over press rights, Myanmar frees Reuters reporters
YANGON, Myanmar - Two Reuters journalists whose reporting on the Myanmar military's abuses of Rohingya Muslims got them imprisoned and drew the world's attention to curbs on freedom of the press were ...
May 07, 2019 (The Associated Press)
B.C. Green win sends message to established parties that climate issue a winner
NANAIMO, B.C. - British Columbia voters sent a message that Canadians are deeply concerned about the environment and climate issues will be at the forefront in October's federal election campaign, jub...
May 07, 2019 Green Party's Paul Manly celebrates with his family from (left to right), his mother Eva and father Jim, wife Samantha and daughter Aven after results come in for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith byelection at the Cavallotti Lodge in Nanaimo, B.C., on Monday, May 6, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Murray Wood: Isn't it time for more 'we' than 'oui' in Rideau Hall?
Louise Arbour brings much more than French skills to her role as the king's representative, but she also has taken contr...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, May 8
On Friday, Evan discusses guide dogs, artificial intelligence campaigns trying to amplify division amongst political mov...