Murray Wood: Leadership race rules no win for the NDP
The NDP are on the hunt for a new federal party leader, but it comes with a unique set of rules. Murray Wood takes issue...
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Trump fires Esper as Pentagon chief after election defeat
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump fired Defence Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, an unprecedented move by a president struggling to accept election defeat and angry at a Pentagon leader he believes w...
Nov 09, 2020
President-elect's long to-do list to include repairing damaged Canada-U. S. ties
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Joe Biden's to-do list just got a whole lot longer - and it's a safe bet it now includes patching the holes in Canada's relationship with the United States. Biden has more pressing ...
Nov 09, 2020
Terry Fox, Indigenous advocates among diverse group on shortlist for new $5 bill
OTTAWA - A diverse group of notable Canadians, including Indigenous advocates and veterans, an Inuit artist and the first person of Chinese descent born in this country have been shortlisted to appear...
Nov 09, 2020
Austrian authorities raid suspected Islamic radicals
VIENNA - Investigators in several Austrian regions carried out raids early Monday on people and organizations suspected of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas groups, prosecutors said. Authori...
Nov 09, 2020
Bains suggests Ottawa may draw on scorned federal loan program for airline bailout
OTTAWA - Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says a federal loan program little-loved by industry will be among the options Ottawa weighs as it sits down with airline executives to negotiate a governmen...
Nov 09, 2020
Biden eyes Washington veterans for key administration posts
WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden is looking to build out his nascent White House staff with more traditional Washington insiders, a notable departure from four years in which President Don...
Nov 09, 2020
Trudeau says he hopes to see COVID-19 vaccines roll out in Canada in early 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he hopes to see COVID-19 vaccines roll out in Canada early next year, but warned that won't bring an immediate resolution to the pandemic currently seeing a r...
Nov 09, 2020
Police saw crime dip in first six months of pandemic, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - Newly released statistics point to a notable drop in police-recorded crime during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistics Canada says 17 police services across Canada report...
Nov 09, 2020
Lionel Desmond inquiry to resume at new Nova Scotia venue in February: lawyer
HALIFAX - A lawyer involved in an inquiry investigating why a former soldier killed his family and himself in 2017 says hearings are expected to resume at a new venue in Nova Scotia on Feb. 16. The pr...
Nov 09, 2020
Justin Trudeau first leader to talk to U.S. president-elect Joe Biden
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the first international leader to have personally congratulated Joe Biden on being elected U.S. president, his office said Monday as it summarized a conversat...
Nov 09, 2020
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, Sept. 9
Evan talks with lawyer Steven Seiferling about how passengers could be affected by Air Canada's flight attendants reject...