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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'Unrepentant' N.B. Tory worker who called for Higgs's leadership review steps down
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick Progressive Conservative party volunteer who spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to trigger a leadership review of Premier Blaine Higgs has resigned from his post. John Wi...
Apr 13, 2024
Members of Quebec health care workers union vote against tentative deal with province
MONTREAL - Members of a union representing more than 80,000 health care workers in Quebec have decisively rejected a tentative collective agreement with the province that was endorsed by the labour gr...
Apr 13, 2024
Saskatchewan sexual assault organizations look to libraries months after school ban
REGINA - Saskatoon mother Tamara Hinz says her two kids have watched the same puppet show that thousands of other Saskatchewan children have seen over the last 17 years. The "I'm the Boss of Me" prese...
Apr 13, 2024
What we learned from the inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada's elections
OTTAWA - If one thing from the public inquiry into foreign interference is clear, it's that China attempted to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 elections. But the evidence is hazy on whether or not it succ...
Apr 13, 2024
When leaders speak of workers and their rights, hold them to it, CLC urges unions
OTTAWA - Canada's largest labour organization is urging unions to hold politicians to account when they profess to champion the country's working class. Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Co...
Apr 13, 2024
Will Biden be on the ballot in Ohio and Alabama? That's up to Republicans
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots, as once-munda...
Apr 12, 2024
Biden wins Wyoming's caucuses, with Democrats in Alaska still to get their say in the nomination
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - President Joe Biden nudged further ahead in the Democratic nomination for reelection by winning the party caucuses in Wyoming and was the only choice on the ballot later Saturday...
Apr 12, 2024
Trump goes after the judge and prosecutors in his hush money case in last rally before trial begins
SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Former President Donald Trump on Saturday lit into New York prosecutors and the criminal hush money case they brought against him during his last rally before what he called ...
Apr 12, 2024
How a hush money scandal tied to a porn star led to Trump’s first criminal trial
NEW YORK (AP) - It was the kind of tawdry tale that Donald Trump might have relished before politics: a porn actor claiming they had had sex. But on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Trump fe...
Apr 12, 2024
Canada advises against all travel to Israel, West Bank due to heightened risk
OTTAWA - Canadians are being told to avoid all travel to Israel and the West Bank because of the "unpredictable security situation" in the region. Global Affairs Canada says there is a heightened risk...
Apr 12, 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...