Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
Tag Archives: Politics
Inuk leader Mary Simon named Canada's next GG
OTTAWA - Mary Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, has been named as Canada's next governor general - the first Indigenous person to serve in the role. "It is only by building bridges, ...
Jul 06, 2021
A list of those who have served as Canada's governor general since Confederation
OTTAWA - Mary Simon will soon become the 30th person to serve as Canada's governor general - the first Indigenous person to serve in the role. The position has been has been held by a wide variety of ...
Jul 06, 2021
Canada's first Indigenous GG calls appointment 'step forward' to reconciliation
OTTAWA - Mary Simon, an Inuk leader and former diplomat, described her appointment as Canada's next governor general - the first Indigenous person to serve in the role - as a "step forward on the long...
Jul 06, 2021
Canada's first Indigenous GG calls appointment 'step forward' to reconciliation
OTTAWA - Mary Simon, an Inuk leader and former diplomat, described her appointment as Canada's next governor general - the first Indigenous person to serve in the role - as a "step forward on the long...
Jul 06, 2021
First Nation gets control of children in care
COWESSESS FIRST NATION, SASKATCHEWAN - A Saskatchewan First Nation where hundreds of unmarked graves were recently discovered near the site of a former residential school is the first in Canada to tak...
Jul 06, 2021
AFN honours children who perished at residential schools ahead of vote for new chief
OTTAWA - Assembly of First Nations chiefs shared solemn words and prayers of mourning Tuesday for the Indigenous children who died in Canada's residential schools, striking a sombre tone at a virtual ...
Jul 06, 2021
28 feared dead in plane crash in Russia's Far East
MOSCOW (AP) - A plane carrying 28 people crashed Tuesday, apparently as it came in for a landing in bad weather in Russia's Far East, and everyone aboard was feared dead. Wreckage from the An-26 was f...
Jul 06, 2021
9 arrested over alleged plot to plant bombs around Hong Kong
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong police on Tuesday said they arrested nine people on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activity, after uncovering an attempt to make explosives and plant bombs across the ci...
Jul 05, 2021
'Steer the market': Study finds $23B in federal, provincial pipeline support
Taxpayer dollars are heavily distorting Canada's financial marketplace in favour of fossil fuel pipelines, new research suggests. The International Institute for Sustainable Development says spending ...
Jul 05, 2021
Prime minister heading to Saskatchewan First Nation for child-welfare agreement
COWESSESS FIRST NATION - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to a Saskatchewan First Nation on Tuesday. Chief Cadmus Delorme with the Cowessess First Nation, east of Regina, said the prime minist...
Jul 05, 2021
OPINION
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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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...