Sarah Mills: It's hard to keep our elbows up while digging into our pockets
Sarah Mills says summer plans are getting more and more expensive. While there are some deals available, it feels like w...
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Some older Canadians opt to take their chances, winter in Florida despite pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 s...
Dec 13, 2020
Twenty-five years after Rwanda, where is Canada on peacekeeping?
OTTAWA - When now-retired major-general Guy Tousignant handed over command of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda 1995, Canada had been involved in virtually every UN mission over the pr...
Dec 13, 2020
Analysis: Short work by high court of Trump's `big one'
WASHINGTON - It didn't take the Supreme Court long to make short work of what President Donald Trump called "the big one." And as the court on Friday rejected a Texas-based lawsuit to overturn the ele...
Dec 13, 2020
Vandals hit Black churches during weekend pro-Trump rallies
WASHINGTON - Vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic Black churches in downtown Washington and set the banner ablaze as nighttime clashes Saturday between pro-Donald T...
Dec 13, 2020
Hunter Biden subpoena seeks info on Burisma, other entities
WASHINGTON - A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a ...
Dec 13, 2020
COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort
PORTAGE, Mich. - The first of many freezer-packed COVID-19 vaccine vials made their way to distribution sites across the United States on Sunday, as the nation's pandemic deaths approached the horrify...
Dec 13, 2020
'Walk-of-shame' comment prompts call to change police sexual assault investigations
VICTORIA - A woman's complaints about being asked about a "walk of shame" by a Saanich police officer after reporting an alleged sexual assault has prompted British Columbia's police complaints commis...
Dec 13, 2020
COVID infection rate low in Alberta pilot project for international travellers
CALGARY - The number of positive COVID-19 tests in a pilot project for international travellers at the Calgary airport and a United States border crossing in southern Alberta has been reasonably low a...
Dec 12, 2020
Mystery over absence of Algeria leader treated for COVID-19
ALGIERS, Algeria - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune marks a year in office Saturday but he is nowhere in sight since his evacuation to Germany more than six weeks ago for treatment of COVID-19....
Dec 12, 2020
Liberals 'completely unwilling' to hold political parties to account on privacy
OTTAWA - A leading expert on personal-information law says the Trudeau government is unwilling to hold political parties to the same level of accountability it is demanding of other organizations in i...
Dec 12, 2020
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Murray Wood: Allowing U.S. booze back into Sask. stores sends mixed message
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, July 11
8:30 - On Tuesday, Saskatchewan's Provincial Ombudsman, Sharon Pratchler, spoke publicly, condemning the efforts of the ...