Murray Wood: April is the most frustrating month on the prairies
As much of Saskatchewan deals with another spring snowstorm, Murray Wood says we're all asking the same question: This i...
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People 'generally' support advance MAID requests before decision-making capacity lost: report
TORONTO - A new Health Canada report says people surveyed about medical assistance in dying "generally" support allowing patients who will lose their decision-making capacity to give advance consent. ...
Oct 31, 2025
Trigger for new immigration powers 'intentionally not defined' in border bill: Diab
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the definition of a "public interest" event that would allow her department to pause or revoke immigration applications is "intentionally not defined" in n...
Oct 30, 2025
Saskatchewan changing notifications of hospital closures amid growing frustration
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is committing to daily updates on which health facilities and services are being temporarily closed. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill told the chamber Thursday the ...
Oct 30, 2025
Senator tries again to put limits on prisons' use of solitary confinement
OTTAWA - Sen. Kim Pate has been fighting against prisons' use of solitary confinement since 2018, when the federal government committed to curbing the practice. She told The Canadian Press the situati...
Oct 30, 2025
Legault stands firm on doctor payment reform, despite minister's resignation
QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault insists he will not back down on controversial changes to how the province's physicians are paid, despite a court challenge by a doctors' union and the resignati...
Oct 30, 2025
'Stall tactic': Health-care workers rally after years with no contract
About 80 health-care workers shouted and waved signs at the Legislative Building, saying negotiations at the bargaining table have been in limbo for more than two years. About 30,000 health-care worke...
Oct 30, 2025 Three health-care unions came together to rally outside of the Legislative Building on Wednesday. (Gillian Massie/ 980 CJME)
Wait for core Ontario autism services tops 5 years: advocates
TORONTO - When Ashley Ferreira's five-year-old son was diagnosed with autism in 2020 she never imagined that a five-year wait lay ahead for him to get access to government-funded core therapies. "I th...
Oct 30, 2025
Five things to know about the fight between Quebec doctors and the government
MONTREAL - Doctors in Quebec are up in arms over a recent provincial law that imposes a new payment system on physicians and prohibits them from using pressure tactics to oppose the policy. Meanwhile,...
Oct 29, 2025
'Call 1-800-Doug-Ford': Ontario, N.B. courting Quebec doctors unhappy with pay law
MONTREAL - Ontario and New Brunswick are openly courting Quebec doctors upset over a recent provincial law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians. While Premier Franois Legault critic...
Oct 29, 2025
These doctors helped eliminate measles in '98. Here's how they did it
TORONTO - Dr. Arlene King got measles more than 60 years ago, but she still remembers feeling so weak that getting her shoes on was a challenge. It didn't take long for King, who was in Grade 1 at the...
Oct 29, 2025
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Sarah Mills: A U.S. jury says Live Nation and Ticketmaster's monopoly hurt fans
An appeal is already underway, but Sarah Mills says the court case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster has exposed what...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 16
8:30 - There are no shortages of stories coming from Parliament Hill this week. Following the Liberal majority, the gas ...