Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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Student nutrition programs in Ontario grapple with nearly 'limitless need'
TORONTO - Half of a tangerine instead of a whole one, half of a hard-boiled egg or an apple cut six ways - student nutrition programs across Ontario are finding ways to stretch increasingly insufficie...
Mar 11, 2024
Youth activist groups jointly endorse Biden. They say his achievements matter more than his age
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jack Lobel is a college sophomore who will be voting in his first presidential election this fall, casting a ballot for Joe Biden. At 19, he's six-plus decades Biden's junior, which ...
Mar 10, 2024
The Democratic protest vote movement over the Israel-Hamas war spreads from Michigan to other states
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The protest-vote movement over President Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war has spread to several states and raised more questions about whether a small but significant...
Mar 10, 2024
B.C. begins offering in-province immunotherapy treatment for lymphoma, leukemia
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is beginning to offer an immunotherapy cancer treatment in the province for some patients who haven't had success with standard chemotherapy or radiation. Chimeric antigen...
Mar 10, 2024
Trump supporters hoping to oust Wisconsin leader say they have enough signatures to force recall
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Backers of an effort to oust Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office over his opposition to former President Donald Trump announced Sunday that they've collect...
Mar 10, 2024
Mourning and worry cast pall over Ramadan this year for many Muslim Canadians
Ramadan is usually a joyful time at Reem Sultan's home, but not this year. The London, Ont., resident, one of hundreds of thousands of Canadians preparing to mark the most sacred month in the Muslim c...
Mar 10, 2024
Canada says it will join effort to get aid to Gaza through humanitarian sea corridor
OTTAWA - Canada will join an international effort to deliver humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea, Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly announced on Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians ...
Mar 10, 2024
Canada's UN ambassador set to attend emergency meeting to discuss crisis in Haiti
OTTAWA - Canada is sending an official to attend an emergency meeting in Jamaica on Monday, following an invite from Caribbean leaders who want to discuss escalating gang violence in Haiti. A spokespe...
Mar 10, 2024
Biden's big speech showed his uneasy approach to abortion, an issue bound to be key in the campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) - Reproductive freedom took center stage during Biden's State of the Union address, but abortion rights advocates had mixed reactions, raising concerns about the president trying to ca...
Mar 10, 2024
The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw - even the naked - and may have secrets to tell
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, the president of the United States stripped naked on a rock by the river, plunged in and saw a dead man float to the surface. We know t...
Mar 10, 2024
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Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, May 1
8:30 - Drivers are yet again feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Prices have climbed almost 20 cents per litre at some st...