Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Canada Day should be time of reflection after unmarked graves discovered: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Instead of fireworks and frothy drinks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says this Canada Day should be a time of reflection, couching his view in the discovery this week of another unmarked gra...
Jun 25, 2021
Iqaluit mayor wants land tax exemption on churches removed over residential schools
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Iqaluit's mayor says he plans to make a motion to remove a land tax exemption for churches in Nunavut's capital city. Kenny Bell says he decided to do so after the Cowessess First N...
Jun 25, 2021
Jury selection change preserved fairness of process, Supreme Court says
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says Parliament was entitled to abolish a long-standing jury selection procedure that some critics had denounced as discriminatory. The newly released reasons shed...
Jun 25, 2021
Trudeau faces mounting calls for independent probe of residential school deaths
OTTAWA - As calls mount for the federal Liberals to do more to support Indigenous communities calling for independent investigations into deaths of children at residential schools, Prime Minister Just...
Jun 25, 2021
U.S. senator wants Canada on religious freedom watch list over pastor COVID arrests
EDMONTON - A U.S. senator has asked that Canada be investigated for violating religious freedom over the arrests of Alberta pastors accused of flouting COVID-19 restrictions. In a letter released Thur...
Jun 25, 2021
Trudeau resists calls to fire Bennett over 'hurtful' text, says he knows her 'heart'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is resisting calls to fire Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett over a text message he acknowledges was "wrong" and "hurtful" and harmed his gover...
Jun 25, 2021
Polish ruling right-wing coalition loses parliament majority
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's governing right-wing coalition lost its slim majority in parliament on Friday after three lawmakers left it amid criticism over the government's decision to phase out co...
Jun 25, 2021
Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd's death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin's knee led to the biggest out...
Jun 25, 2021
AP source: Justice Department suing Georgia over voting laws
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is suing Georgia over the state's voting laws, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. The announcement will be made later Friday by Attorney General Me...
Jun 25, 2021
Two more extreme right-wing groups join Proud Boys on Canada's terror list
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has added two more right-wing extremist groups and an American neo-Nazi to its list of terrorist entities as it tries to counter the rise of white nationalist violence....
Jun 25, 2021
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Sarah Mills: Tiger Woods should know better after another DUI case
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 2
On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...