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Ex-police officer gets 200 hours community service for campaign scheme to help New York City mayor
NEW YORK (AP) - A former police officer who prosecutors say was the ringleader of a campaign donations scheme to help New York City Mayor Eric Adams during his winning 2021 run was sentenced Tuesday, ...
Apr 02, 2024
Montreal family fighting deportation to Nigeria can stay for now, advocates say
MONTREAL - Advocates for a Montreal family fighting deportation to Nigeria say they have been granted temporary permission to stay in Canada. Quebec legislature member Guillaume Cliche-Rivard says an ...
Apr 02, 2024
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt cites friendship with Democrats in calling for more respectful discourse
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Katie Britt confided Tuesday that she counts some Democratic colleagues among her best friends in the Senate and said such cross-party relationships are essential to g...
Apr 02, 2024
Lawmakers in GOP-led Nebraska advance bill to raise sales tax
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - With no votes to spare, Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill that would raise the state's sales tax by 1 cent to 6.5% on every taxable dollar spent - which would make it among the h...
Apr 02, 2024
B.C. to ban some 'personal use' evictions, stop rent increases over new children
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is changing rental laws to stop bad-faith evictions, protect families who have had a child and help landlords with problematic tenants. Premier David Eby sai...
Apr 02, 2024
Free birth control, longer fuel-tax holiday: Some highlights of the Manitoba budget
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government tabled on Tuesday its first budget since winning last October's provincial election. Here are some of the highlights: - Provincial fuel-tax holiday extended by thr...
Apr 02, 2024
Democrats eye Florida's abortion vote as chance to flip the state. History says it'll be a challenge
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Despite Florida's reputation as a newly bona fide red state, Democrats have new hope that a ballot question seeking to preserve abortion rights will put the state back in play...
Apr 02, 2024
Judge sides with conservative group in its push to access, publish voter rolls online
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its publ...
Apr 02, 2024
B.C. introduces bill for First Nations land acquisition, holding rights
VICTORIA - British Columbia's government has introduced a bill that would give federally recognized First Nations the legal right to acquire and hold land in the province. B.C.'s Ministry of Indigenou...
Apr 02, 2024
Tribes blast South Dakota governor's claim that leaders are benefitting from drug cartels
Relations between South Dakota tribes and Republican Gov. Kristi Noem have long been strained, but they have become even more contentious recently as Noem has pointedly criticized tribal leaders, accu...
Apr 02, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Accountability is a word some elected officials seem to be forgetting
From four people walking away from the RM of Sherwood council with little to no explanation to the reaction of some coun...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 28
8:30 - The war involving Iran has increased uncertainty in global energy markets, largely because the Strait of Hormuz h...