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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Ottawa hands N.L. $5.2 billion for troubled Muskrat Falls hydro project
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Newfoundland and Labrador Wednesday to announce a $5.2-billion deal to help the province cover the costs of a troubled hydroelectric project ahe...
Jul 28, 2021
Iran's supreme leader criticizes US as nuclear talks stalled
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday called the U.S. "stubborn" in stalled nuclear talks in Vienna for discussing Tehran's missiles and regional influence, likely signaling challenge...
Jul 28, 2021
AP Interview: Japan minister urges young to get vaccinated
TOKYO (AP) - As Olympics host Tokyo saw another record number of coronavirus cases Wednesday, Japan's vaccination minister said the speed of the country's inoculation campaign is less urgent than gett...
Jul 28, 2021
AP Interview: Japan minister urges young to get vaccinated
TOKYO (AP) - As Olympics host Tokyo saw another record number of coronavirus cases Wednesday, Japan's vaccination minister said the speed of the country's inoculation campaign is less urgent than gett...
Jul 28, 2021
Access requester told to wait five years for public health agency head's email, texts
OTTAWA - A requester seeking access to a week's worth of emails and messages from the head of a federal agency embroiled in controversy has been told to wait five years or more for a response under Ca...
Jul 28, 2021
Liberals look to fall for movement on having free tampons, pads in federal workplaces
OTTAWA - Canada's labour minister was told earlier this year that efforts to provide free tampons and pads in federally regulated workplaces could cost employers more than $1 million annually to becom...
Jul 28, 2021
Farmers say heat wave, drought show vulnerable agricultural sector needs support
When an unprecedented heat wave "cooked" the cherries growing at his family's farm in Oliver, B.C., Pravin Dhaliwal tried to see past the financial loss to the passion that spurred him to follow in th...
Jul 28, 2021
GOP’s Jake Ellzey wins US House seat over Trump-backed rival
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican Jake Ellzey of Texas won a U.S. House seat on Tuesday night over a rival backed by Donald Trump, dealing the former president a defeat in a test of his endorsement powe...
Jul 27, 2021
Democratic donor convicted of offering drugs for sex; 2 died
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a wealthy California political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and other ove...
Jul 27, 2021
One-time payments to seniors over 75 likely to also go to the dead, documents say
OTTAWA - Canada's seniors minister was warned in the spring that the Liberal government's plan to send $500 payments to pensioners in August would end with some of the money going to people who had di...
Jul 27, 2021
OPINION
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...