Sarah Mills: The president is playing a game of Risk with real lives
Sarah Mills says when you make a threat like "a whole civilization will die tonight" about Iran, the only choi...
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Trudeau defends Canada's early response to COVID-19 but admits room for improvement
OTTAWA - There are ways to improve Canada's early pandemic alert and response systems, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, but he also insists the country's top public health officials did start build...
Jul 13, 2021
Documents detail BoC's bond buying on federal debt
OTTAWA - Federal officials' apparent lack of concern about the impact central bank actions have on managing government debt, shown in internal documents, is about to face a test as the Bank of Canada ...
Jul 13, 2021
US virus cases are rising again, doubling over three weeks
The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vac...
Jul 13, 2021
More than 160 unmarked graves found at B.C. residential school site: First Nation
CHEMAINUS, B.C. - Canadians need to make sure they don't become hardened to news about unmarked graves at residential schools after what's believed to be another discovery of undocumented remains at a...
Jul 13, 2021
Canada's next governor general Mary Simon to be officially installed July 26
OTTAWA - Mary Simon will officially become Canada's governor general later this month. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, as his choice to be the Q...
Jul 13, 2021
Power vacuum created by president's killing rattles Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitians are not only wondering who killed their president, but who's running the country: At least three men claim to be the legitimate head of government, complicating t...
Jul 13, 2021
Head of Justice Centre taking leave; hired investigator to follow judge
WINNIPEG - The president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is stepping away from the Alberta-based organization after admitting to hiring a private investigator to follow a Manitoba ju...
Jul 13, 2021
N.S. becomes second province to sign on to federal Liberals' child-care subsidy plan
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has become the second province to sign on to a federal program that would fund thousands of subsidized daycare spots, in a deal that plays into the prime minister's and premier's...
Jul 13, 2021
Dutch COVID-19 infections soar by 500% in a week
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Coronavirus infections in the Netherlands skyrocketed by more than 500% over the last week, the country's public health institute reported Tuesday. The surge follows the ...
Jul 13, 2021
IOC's Bach slips up and refers to Japanese as 'Chinese'
TOKYO (AP) - IOC President Thomas Bach referred to his Japanese hosts as Chinese when he appeared in public on Tuesday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week. Giving a pep talk at the he...
Jul 13, 2021
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Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 8
On today's show, Evan gets the latest on global tensions with Iran and the U.S., discusses Riversdale safety concerns an...