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Verbal gaffe or sign of trouble? Mixing up names like Biden and Trump have done is pretty common
WASHINGTON (AP) - Any parent who's ever called one of their children by the other's name - or even the family pet's name - likely could empathize when President Joe Biden mixed up the names of French ...
Feb 10, 2024
Demolishing Montreal Olympic Stadium would be costly, but experts question $2B price
MONTREAL - Quebec's tourism minister says demolishing Montreal's Olympic Stadium would cost $2 billion, but that estimate is raising questions because other North American cities have torn down stadiu...
Feb 10, 2024
N.S. Liberals pledge two percentage point cut to harmonized sales tax if elected
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Liberal leader is committing to cut the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax by two percentage points if his party wins the next general election. In a speech Friday ...
Feb 10, 2024
Republican lawmakers are backing dozens of bills targeting diversity efforts on campus and elsewhere
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities and other public institutions under a slate of bills pending in Republican-led legislatures, with some lawmake...
Feb 09, 2024
How Biden and his allies are pushing back against a special counsel's claims about his memory
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden's Democratic allies are launching an aggressive defense against a special counsel's explosive claims that the 81-year-old president couldn't remember major milest...
Feb 09, 2024
White House downplays Biden, national security aide's blunt comments on Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday sought to downplay sharp criticism levied against Israel by President Joe Biden and a senior national security official over how Prime Minister Benjamin Net...
Feb 09, 2024
Texas woman is sentenced to 3 years in prison for threatening judge overseeing Trump documents case
HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas woman was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of threatening a Florida judge who is overseeing the criminal case against former President ...
Feb 09, 2024
The Senate is pushing past far-right objections to aiding Ukraine. But next steps are uncertain
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Senate is plodding past far-right Republican opposition to helping Ukraine fight Russia, working through the weekend on a $95.3 billion military aid package for Kyiv, Israel...
Feb 09, 2024
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) - ABC's "This Week" - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.; Gov. Brian Kemp, R-Ga. ___ NBC's "Meet the Press" - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro May...
Feb 09, 2024
'Depressing' to see 'W5' affected by Bell Media cuts, says former host Kevin Newman
TORONTO - Former "W5" host Kevin Newman says the demise of Canada's longstanding prime-time investigative program is "depressing" and he worries about the future of hard-hitting journalism in the coun...
Feb 09, 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...