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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McKenna announces retirement, pledges ongoing work for climate change
OTTAWA - Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says as she leaves politics she will use what platform she has to push for climate action and an end to the hateful comments and personal abuse targe...
Jun 28, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, June 28, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:55 p.m. The Northwest Territories is no longer requiring masks to be worn in public places in Yellowknife and three other comm...
Jun 28, 2021
Autopilot issue contributed to naval helicopter crash that killed six: investigation
OTTAWA - A military investigation has found that an autopilot issue played a major role in the deadly crash of a Cyclone helicopter off the coast of Greece last year. As a pilot guided the naval helic...
Jun 28, 2021
Sweden's PM resigning, calls for parliament to form new govt
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven is resigning after losing a confidence vote last week and he called on the country's parliamentary speaker on Monday to try to form a new governme...
Jun 28, 2021
Total COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to top 50 million doses by week's end
OTTAWA - Canada should have enough COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this week to fully inoculate three-quarters of all Canadians over the age of 12. Brig. Gen. Krista Brodie, the military commander mana...
Jun 28, 2021
Catherine McKenna retiring from politics, creates possible opening for Mark Carney
OTTAWA - Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna has decided not to seek re-election. Her surprise decision opens up some prime political real estate that could become a launching pad for former Ban...
Jun 27, 2021
French far right beaten in regional elections
PARIS (AP) - Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to France's far right in regional elections Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time and slowing it...
Jun 27, 2021
Ottawa Rabbi Reuven Bulka dies, leaves a legacy of kindness
OTTAWA - The Jewish Federation of Ottawa says beloved Ottawa Rabbi Reuven Bulka has died at the age of 77. He died Sunday morning in New York City where he had moved to spend time with his five childr...
Jun 27, 2021
Mike Gravel, former US senator for Alaska, dies at 91
SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) - Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presid...
Jun 27, 2021
Canada's tragic residential-school reckoning could be grim harbinger for U.S.
WASHINGTON - It took just two weeks for the first Indigenous cabinet member in American history to publicly express her deep personal dismay at the grim residential school revelations emanating from n...
Jun 27, 2021
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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 - Thursday, April 30
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