Murray Wood: Drop in reading rates a sad trend to see
New data suggests people are spending less time reading for pleasure. Murray Wood says it's sad that people are drawn to...
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Ottawa has to allow home prices to fall to make housing more affordable, experts say
OTTAWA - Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister's recent claim that home prices don't need to go down in order to restore housing affordability. Gregor Robertson, the form...
May 23, 2025 Housing experts say home prices indeed need to fall before broad-based affordability returns to Canada. New single family houses billed as estate cottages and townhouses under construction are seen in an aerial view, in Delta, B.C., on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Ontario adding 2,600 teacher candidate spaces amid shortage
TORONTO - Ontario is adding 2,600 spaces to teachers colleges across the province as it stares down a worsening teacher shortage, a move unions say is welcome though will not in isolation solve the pr...
May 23, 2025
'A political football': Canadian says his citizenship TV pitch was misrepresented
WASHINGTON - When Rob Worsoff recently dusted off an old idea he had for a reality television show about people on the path to United States citizenship, he had no idea of what he was letting himself ...
May 23, 2025
A delegation of U.S. senators is in Ottawa Friday to meet with Prime Minister Carney
OTTAWA - Five U.S. senators will be in Ottawa Friday for meetings with the Liberal government, including Prime Minister Mark Carney. The delegation includes Democrats Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Amy Kl...
May 22, 2025
B.C. First Nations fear protests and conflict over fast-track legislation
First Nations leaders in British Columbia say proposed legislation to fast-track resource projects will likely lead to protests and litigation should the provincial government push the law through. Ro...
May 22, 2025
Manitoba Tory loses critic duties but remains in caucus after ethics probe
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Opposition leader Obby Khan stripped a Progressive Conservative caucus member of his critic duties Thursday, as questions continued to swirl about the former government's actions r...
May 22, 2025
Supreme Court declines to reinstate independent agency board members fired by President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Thursday declined to reinstate independent agency board members fired by President Donald Trump, endorsing a robust view of presidential ...
May 22, 2025
GOP US Sen. Tommy Tuberville is expected to announce run for Alabama governor, associates say
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who entered politics after retiring as a college football coach, plans to run for governor of Alabama in 2026, according to people famili...
May 22, 2025
Trump's $600 million war chest: How he plans to wield his power in the midterms and beyond
WASHINGTON (AP) - Between a barrage of executive orders, foreign trips and norm-shattering proclamations, Donald Trump has also been busy raking in cash. The president has amassed a war chest of at le...
May 22, 2025
Supreme Court of Canada to examine role of rape shield law in sexual services case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will look at the application of the rape shield law in the case of two individuals accused of acting as pimps for a woman who worked from a house they rented. Sect...
May 22, 2025
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 19
Evan talks with Premier Moe about his trip to China and the current state of canola tariffs, Ray Wilgenbusch about the M...