Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obt...
Sep 18, 2025
Regina may remove financial hurdles for replacing lead pipes
Regina city council could make it easier for people to replace lead pipes in their homes. On Wednesday, Regina's executive committee voted unanimously to adjust the City of Regina's Lead Service Conne...
Sep 18, 2025 Mayor Chad Bachynski said a healthy community was paramount and he was happy to see that the city was constantly not only executing the program and meeting its targets – but also looking for ways to improve in the interim while still having some of those (LSCs) in our system. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
B.C. man who claims he stabbed 3 on 'God's will' isn't responsible, lawyer says
VANCOUVER - The lawyer for the man accused of an attack at a Vancouver Chinatown festival says his client had no motivation other than a direction from God to stab three people and he should be found ...
Sep 18, 2025
Staff shortages halt blood collection at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hospital
ST. JOHN'S - Staff shortages forced officials to cancel routine blood collection in some parts of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hospital on Wednesday, according to an internal memo from the prov...
Sep 18, 2025
Training for docs coming as women wait years in pain for endometriosis diagnoses
TORONTO - Katie Luciani spent years being told that her weeklong debilitating pain every month was a "normal" part of getting her period. "My symptoms showed up when I was 11," said Luciani, who is no...
Sep 18, 2025
Alarming rise in misinformation about women's health on social media,
MONTRAL - Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills - misinformation and disinformation about women's health are spreading like wildfire on social media apps like T...
Sep 18, 2025
Ontario doctors awarded compensation increases, family docs to be paid for admin work
TORONTO - Ontario's doctors have a new, four-year agreement with the province that will give them increased general compensation and see family doctors paid for administrative work, which they and the...
Sep 18, 2025
Quebec follows Alberta's move to stop offering COVID vaccine for free to most people
Quebec is now the second province after Alberta to announce it will no longer offer free doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to its entire population, starting this fall. The decision matches a similar poli...
Sep 18, 2025
Think tank calls on Ottawa to abandon single-payer pharmacare model
OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...
Sep 18, 2025 A prescription is filled, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, in Morganton, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
Montreal mayor sees opening of UN-Habitat office as part of her political legacy
MONTREAL - Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her near...
Sep 18, 2025
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...