Murray Wood: A different kind of 'Mike' drop for Edmonton
Hurt Feelings Alert: Mike Babcock is taking over the bench of the underachieving Edmonton Oilers. Murray Wood says many ...
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Minister won't commit to national flood insurance program in near future
OTTAWA - Federal Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski said Tuesday she couldn't promise the government will deliver a National Flood Insurance Program "in the near future." Speaking to repo...
Apr 22, 2026
Ford says Ontario has sold controversial private jet at no loss
TORONTO - Ontario has sold a recently purchased used private jet for the same $28.9 million price it paid, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday. Ford's office announced the purchase of the used 2016 Bomba...
Apr 22, 2026
Ottawa has boosted monitoring of Iran's threats to diaspora in Canada, official says
OTTAWA - Federal officials have ramped up their monitoring of Tehran's threats against members of the Iranian diaspora in Canada, a senior public safety executive said Tuesday at a conference in Ottaw...
Apr 22, 2026
MacKinnon rejects Conservative's call to leave some committee control to opposition
OTTAWA - Liberal House leader Steven MacKinnon rejected a call from the Conservatives to leave three key House committees under the control of opposition parties as the Liberals move to take greater c...
Apr 22, 2026
Ontario Liberals have first official leadership contender
TORONTO - The race to become the Ontario Liberals' next leader has its first official entrant. Dylan Marando, a former political staffer, says on a website launching his bid that he wants to build an ...
Apr 22, 2026
'The day the music dies': Organists pipe up to save historical instrument
EDMONTON - Music from a pipe organ has filled a convocation hall at the University of Alberta for a century, but that may soon come to an end as the institution begins renovations that include removin...
Apr 22, 2026 A Casavant pipe organ seen at the Convocation Hall at the University of Alberta in this undated photo. It was built in 1978 to replace one built in 1925 to honour students and faculty members who lost their lives in the First World War. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Marnie Giesbrecht
Expert says it's time for Canada to amp up efforts to educate Americans on trade
HOUSTON - Piling his shopping bags into his vehicle's trunk outside a Houston grocery store last week, Texan Herman Moreno said he doesn't think Canada has any kind of trading relationship with Texas ...
Apr 22, 2026
How 're-wilding' can make Canada's cityscapes more climate resilient and bee friendly
TORONTO - The laneway beside Adam Barnes's house is, at first blush, unremarkable within Toronto's catalogue of backstreets: there are garages, a graffiti-tagged brick wall and a chain-link fence topp...
Apr 22, 2026
Virginia voters approve redistricting plan that could boost Democrats’ seats in Congress
Virginia voters approved a mid-decade redistricting plan Tuesday that could boost Democrats' chances of winning four additional U.S. House seats in November's midterm elections that will decide contro...
Apr 21, 2026
Liberals move to take control of House committees now that they've secured majority
OTTAWA - The Liberals are moving to take control of House of Commons committees now that they've secured a majority government. House leader Steven MacKinnon said in a social media post Tuesday that t...
Apr 21, 2026
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Sarah Mills: As the final school bell rings, let the summer begin
Sarah Mills says school is done for another year, so let's give thanks to all those who all those who make a positive im...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, June 24
8:30 - Premier Scott Moe is back from a trade mission to Europe that saw Saskatchewan sign new agreements on nuclear ene...