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2024 South Carolina General Assembly session may be remembered for what didn't happen
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The 2024 regular session of the South Carolina General Assembly ended Thursday and will perhaps be better remembered for the things that didn't pass. South Carolina remains one o...
May 09, 2024
Business groups walk back claim on share of Canadians hit by capital gains changes
OTTAWA - Prominent business groups have backtracked their claim that one in five Canadians would be affected by the federal government's proposed changes to capital gains taxation. In a letter sent to...
May 09, 2024
N.B. minister says threat to dissolve school districts extends to francophone boards
FREDERICTON - Elected councils overseeing francophone school districts in New Brunswick are not immune from being dissolved if they don't adhere to the province's policy change affecting LGBTQ+ studen...
May 09, 2024
Maryland governor signs bill to rebuild Pimlico, home of the Preakness Stakes
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed a measure on Thursday to rebuild Baltimore's historic but antiquated Pimlico Race Course and transfer the track to state control. Under the new law...
May 09, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson survived a motion to vacate. Here's why his job is far from safe
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mike Johnson's job isn't safe yet. In a stunning show of unity in the often divided House, Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save the GOP speaker from an att...
May 09, 2024
Competition Bureau to launch market study of Canadian airline sector
OTTAWA - Canada's Competition Bureau says it will begin a market study focused on the Canadian airline sector. It will look into the state of competition in the airline industry and how governments ca...
May 09, 2024
'It's an extension of my body': accessibility advocates say airlines need to change
OTTAWA - Maayan Ziv knows all too well the problems that can come from giving her motorized wheelchair to a stranger when she gets on a plane. "The fact that I'm even having to be separated from my wh...
May 09, 2024
B.C. cyber attack: Minister says police probing bid to breach government systems
VICTORIA - Police are involved in the investigation into a sophisticated attempt to breach protected British Columbia government information systems, Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said Thursday. Bu...
May 09, 2024
Haley will meet with donors to her shuttered presidential campaign. No Trump endorsement is expected
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Nikki Haley is meeting next week with donors who supported her now-abandoned Republican presidential campaign, a reentry into public life that comes as the former South Carolina ...
May 09, 2024
New Brunswick says bill to force people into drug care shelved until after election
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government says a bill to force treatment for drug users that was to be introduced this spring has now been shelved until after the fall election...
May 09, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...