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...
Tag Archives: Justice
Pact allowing Canada to return asylum claimants to U.S. is constitutional: court
OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has found that a pact between Ottawa and Washington to turn back asylum-seekers entering Canada from the United States does not violate the Charter of Rights and F...
Apr 15, 2021
A look at the lives lost in the April 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting
HALIFAX - The victims in one of Canada's worst mass killings included an RCMP officer, a teacher, health-care workers, retirees, neighbours of the shooter and two correctional officers killed in their...
Apr 15, 2021
Families of N.S. mass shooting victims left with vivid memories, searing grief
HALIFAX - Tom Bagley's birthday was just two days away on April 19, 2020, when his daughter Charlene called his cottage in West Wentworth, N.S., and small talk ensued about the possibility of a social...
Apr 15, 2021
Mi'kmaq fisher argues feds becoming more aggressive in seizures of Indigenous gear
HALIFAX - A Mi'kmaq man who has been battling for Indigenous fishing rights says the recent seizure of his crab traps suggests Ottawa is becoming more aggressive on the water. Robert Syliboy said in a...
Apr 15, 2021
B.C. families push for changes as special committee examines provincial Police Act
VANCOUVER - The death of his daughter after she was hit with rubber bullets brought Ron Rauch to the conclusion that looking for answers from British Columbia's police watchdog is a "waste of time." L...
Apr 15, 2021
Liberal motion to impose closure on UNDRIP bill passes, limiting time for debate
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have used an unpopular tool to limit time for debate in the House of Commons on a bill that would harmonize Canada's laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Right...
Apr 15, 2021
Quebec police cancel Amber Alert after baby boy, man found safe
WATERLOO, Que. - Quebec provincial police say a baby boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert on Wednesday has been found safe. The alert was issued after the two-month-old was allegedly abducted by ...
Apr 14, 2021
Biden's planned U.S. pullout from Afghanistan to use Sept. 11 anniversary as deadline
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden started the clock Wednesday on the long-awaited, long-promised withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, setting the 20th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 200...
Apr 14, 2021
Top military police officer defends unit's handling of sex misconduct cases
OTTAWA - The commander of Canada's military police found himself defending the independence and professionalism of his investigators on Tuesday as members of a parliamentary committee grilled him over...
Apr 13, 2021
Indigenous leaders, experts urge Ottawa to quickly pass UNDRIP bill before election
OTTAWA - It's been over 40 years since Chief Wilton Littlechild of Alberta began fighting for recognition of Indigenous rights in Canada, but he says he's waiting to see these rights passed into feder...
Apr 13, 2021
OPINION
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
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...