Murray Wood: Federal gun initiatives take aim at small business
Darryl Schemenauer is closing down his Regina gun store after 35 years, and he puts the blame squarely on the federal Li...
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Canadian producers hoping U.S. eases cannabis prohibitions nervously eyeing calendar
WASHINGTON - Canada's cannabis industry, banking on the chance to expand into the United States, is nervously eyeing the American political calendar and the Biden administration's narrow legislative w...
Jun 14, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Monday, June 14, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday June 14, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 383,285 new vaccinations administered for a total of 29,008,156...
Jun 13, 2021
Trudeau pledges support for Ukraine, mum on support for next step in NATO membership
BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with Canada reiterating its broad support for Ukraine, but not whether it will back a move by Ky...
Jun 13, 2021
Montreal-area ambulance paramedics announce strike; say medical care to be maintained
MONTREAL - The union representing ambulance paramedics in the Montreal and Laval areas says just over 1,000 of its members will be on strike as of midnight. Union spokeswoman Eve-Marie Lacasse says th...
Jun 13, 2021
Israel set to swear in government, end Netanyahu's long rule
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is set to swear in a new government on Sunday that will send Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the opposition after a record 12 years in office and a political crisis that...
Jun 13, 2021
After G-7, Biden says he's reestablishing US credibility
NEWQUAY, England (AP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday said the United States had restored its presence on the world stage as he used his first overseas trip since taking office to connect with a new g...
Jun 13, 2021
'No such thing as impossible:' Nunavut MP reflects on time in Parliament
Sitting in her Ottawa apartment on a hot morning, Mumilaaq Qaqqaq thinks about her grandparents, who, like most Nunavut Inuit of their generation, grew up on the land. She thinks about her father, who...
Jun 13, 2021
Advocates call for more rights for migrant workers amid deaths on the job
It's dawn in Batangas, a city more than a hundred kilometres north of the Philippine capital city of Manila, when Eric Gutierrez recalls memories of his college best friend Efren Reyes. Reyes was smar...
Jun 13, 2021
Indigenous child-welfare battle heads to court despite calls for Ottawa to drop cases
Ottawa's controversial legal challenge of a pair of rulings involving First Nations children torn from their families by a chronically underfunded childcare system heads to Federal Court Monday, despi...
Jun 13, 2021
Trudeau to share details on Canada's COVID-19 vaccine-sharing plan after G7 summit
CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom - Canada is set to unveil details on how it will offer the world up to 100 million vaccine doses to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is wrappi...
Jun 13, 2021
OPINION
Sarah Mills: The season of the zipper merge has returned
It sometimes feels like leaders in our cities and towns don't plan for construction very well, but Sarah Mills says the ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, April 20
8:30 - Last week, the FSIN held its first general assembly since being told it needed to repay $29-million in federal fu...