Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Dispute over access prompts AP to drop CMA Awards coverage
NEW YORK - The Associated Press has pulled out of its planned coverage of Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards show due to restrictions that have been placed on still photographers and screen ...
Nov 11, 2020
A festival hit waylaid by the virus, ‘The Climb’ peddles on
NEW YORK - "The Climb" is a portrait of a male friendship told in single-shot chapters with cataclysmic happenings - marriage, death, children - in between. With each lurch forward, we have to get our...
Nov 11, 2020
Lawyer: Britney Spears fears father, wants him out of career
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears fears her father and will not resume her career so long as he has power over it, her attorney said in court Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny declined...
Nov 11, 2020
Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner
ALBANY, N.Y. - A new research paper takes a swipe at the popular image of Alexander Hamilton as the abolitionist founding father, citing evidence he was a slave trader and owner himself. "Not only did...
Nov 11, 2020
Singh says government must move to counter hate groups, which have tripled since 2015
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the Liberal government must do more to tackle the growing threat of hate groups. The past five years have seen a proliferation of neo-Nazi groups and online cont...
Nov 10, 2020
In court moves, Britney Spears seeks freedom from father
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears wants to be freed from her father. The pop star's moves have been missing from stage and screen in a career hiatus that shows no signs of ending, but she's been making all...
Nov 10, 2020
Peter Mansbridge releases 'Extraordinary Canadians' and mulls over possible memoir
TORONTO - Peter Mansbridge was at the Toronto Raptors' NBA Championship celebration in Nathan Phillips Square in June 2019 when gunfire broke out near the crowd of about one million people. The retire...
Nov 10, 2020
James Duthie shares some of hockey's greatest untold stories in 'Beauties'
James Duthie faced a big problem. After conducting dozens of interviews for a compilation of hockey stories - most of them previously known to only a select few - the award-winning broadcaster was stu...
Nov 10, 2020
How a Brazil samba school shimmied from Carnival to COVID-19
RIO DE JANEIRO - The sultry heat of the Southern Hemisphere's summer will soon be rolling into Rio de Janeiro. In a normal year, the air would whisper into Dr. Wille Baracho's ear: Carnival is coming....
Nov 10, 2020
Judge sets stricter house arrest rules for Louisiana rapper
BATON ROUGE, La. - A Louisiana judge has added two hours to a local rapper's house arrest curfew after he was reported jet skiing and enjoying the beach near his south Florida home. State District Jud...
Nov 10, 2020
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Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...