Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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Germany faces 'crisis of trust' in pandemic, president says
FRANKFURT - Germany's president says the country is enduring a "crisis of trust" and urged people to "pull together" as they weather a second Easter amid pandemic restrictions and dissatisfaction over...
Apr 03, 2021
UK: Benefits outweigh risks for AstraZeneca despite 7 deaths
LONDON - Britain's medicines regulator is urging people to continue taking the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, despite revealing that seven people in the U.K. have died from rare blood clots after ge...
Apr 03, 2021
University of California victim of nationwide hack attack
LOS ANGELES - The University of California is warning its students and staff that a ransomware group might have stolen and published their personal data and that of hundreds of other schools, governme...
Apr 03, 2021
Pressure mounts on corporations to denounce GOP voting bills
ATLANTA - Liberal activists are stepping up calls for corporate America to denounce Republican efforts to tighten state voting laws, and businesses accustomed to cozy political relationships now find ...
Apr 03, 2021
Young professionals cut ahead of older Italians for vaccine
ROME - Octogenarians in Tuscany watched in disbelief and indignation as lawyers, magistrates, professors and other younger professionals got vaccinated against COVID-19 before them, despite government...
Apr 03, 2021
California to allow indoor gatherings as virus cases plummet
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California on Friday cleared the way for people to attend indoor concerts, theatre performances and NBA games for the first time in more than a year as the rate of people testing ...
Apr 02, 2021
April, the giraffe that became an online star, dies
HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. - April, the giraffe that became a sensation when a rural New York zoo livestreamed her 2017 pregnancy and delivery, was euthanized Friday because of advancing arthritis, the zoo sa...
Apr 02, 2021
Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party's on at sea
Italy may be in a strict coronavirus lockdown this Easter with travel restricted between regions and new quarantines imposed. But a few miles offshore, guests aboard the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship are ...
Apr 02, 2021
Steelworkers united in defending Canada against perils of American protectionism
WASHINGTON - The largest industrial union in North America came to Canada's defence Thursday, vowing to protect businesses and workers north of the border from the growing peril of protectionism in th...
Apr 01, 2021
With King Kong, a little swagger returns to the box office
NEW YORK - Once again, mayhem and mass destruction is back at the box office. It's almost like old times. "Godzilla vs. Kong," one of the few tentpoles to dare release during COVID times, is poised th...
Apr 01, 2021
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...