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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Saskatchewan teachers and province back in talks, minister wants binding arbitration
REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers and the government are heading back to bargaining, a day after educators narrowly rejected the province's latest offer for a new three-year deal. The Saskatchewan Teache...
May 31, 2024
BC United caucus chair Lorne Doerkson defects to Conservatives
VICTORIA - The caucus chair for British Columbia's official opposition has defected to the BC Conservatives, adding to BC United's woes ahead of the provincial election next fall. BC Conservative Lead...
May 31, 2024
Slide shared by N.B. premier 'gross misrepresentation' of sexual health presentation
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The sexual education slide that angered New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is the first of more than 100 in a presentation about healthy relationships and sexual health that is give...
May 31, 2024
'Surely the dumbest': Tories, NDP sling mud amid squabbles over Speakers' neutrality
OTTAWA - A third member of the House of Commons leadership team is in the hot seat as accusations fly over allegedly partisan online posts featuring MPs who sit in the Speaker's chair. The squabbles o...
May 31, 2024
Judge approves settlement agreement for Nova Scotia's Northern Pulp mill
VANCOUVER - A settlement agreement announced last week between the owners of the Northern Pulp mill and the Nova Scotia government has been approved by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. The agre...
May 31, 2024
Forecasters warn B.C. of hot summer, as province offers more free air conditioners
VICTORIA - British Columbia's government is tripling a program that offers free air conditioners to people with low incomes as forecasters say the province should prepare for hotter-than-normal temper...
May 31, 2024
Biden says questioning Trump's guilty verdicts is 'dangerous' and 'irresponsible'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Friday that his predecessor, Donald Trump, was found guilty and "it's reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible, for anyone to say this is rigged just bec...
May 31, 2024
Fisheries Department issues warnings about lobster trap tampering in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - The federal Fisheries Department is investigating reports of gear tampering in lobster fishing areas in eastern Nova Scotia. The department issued a statement late Thursday saying Indigenous...
May 31, 2024
Trump responds to his guilty verdict by falsely blasting a 'rigged trial' and attacking star witness
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump attacked the judge and the star witness in his criminal hush money trial and again tried to undermine New York's criminal justice system on Friday while seeking to turn hi...
May 31, 2024
Trudeau government mum on Donald Trump conviction, vows to work with any U.S. leader
OTTAWA - The Canadian government remained quiet Friday after a New York court convicted Donald Trump as a felon, despite the Liberals repeatedly trying to draw equivalencies between the former U.S. pr...
May 31, 2024
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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...