Murray Wood: Going to seed, in a good way
Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
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Turkey summons China's ambassador over Twitter posts
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey summoned China's ambassador after the embassy suggested on Twitter that it could take action against two Turkish politicians who criticized Beijing's treatment of its Muslim Uy...
Apr 06, 2021
Greenland election shows divide over rare-earth metals mine
HELSINKI - Greenland is holding an early parliamentary election Tuesday focused in part on whether the semi-autonomous Danish territory should allow international companies to mine the sparsely popula...
Apr 06, 2021
Ukraine says 24 soldiers killed in country's east this year
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Tuesday that 24 of the country's soldiers have been killed so far this year in eastern regions where cease-fire violations have escalated i...
Apr 06, 2021
Refugee families urge Biden to keep promise to up admissions
SAN DIEGO - The families of refugees and their supporters, including 124 elected officials, sent President Joe Biden a letter Tuesday urging him to make good on his promise to boost refugee admissions...
Apr 06, 2021
Florida governor rebuts vaccine 'pay-to-play' report on CBS
ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back aggressively Tuesday against a "60 Minutes" report that suggested he initially made a deal to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in a South Florida coun...
Apr 06, 2021
Parts of Alberta's draft school curriculum plagiarized, academic finds
EDMONTON - Parts of Alberta's proposed curriculum for kindergarten and elementary schoolchildren were copied from other sources without credit, said an expert in plagiarism as the Opposition NDP vowed...
Apr 06, 2021
California plans for broad pandemic reopening in mid-June
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signalled an end to more than a year of closures in California, announcing that the nation's most populated state plans to lift most coronavirus restrictio...
Apr 06, 2021
Arkansas lawmakers enact transgender youth treatment ban
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor's objection...
Apr 06, 2021
Younger, healthier people need intensive care quickly with variants of COVID-19: Tam
OTTAWA - Provincial governments are grappling with how to bring the third wave of COVID-19 under control, as the more virulent variants of the virus begin to dominate and younger, healthier people are...
Apr 06, 2021
4th request to federal government to join coal mine environmental review in Alberta
A fourth request has been made to the federal government to get involved in the environmental review of a coal mine proposed for Alberta's Rocky Mountains. Landowners, Indigenous people and environmen...
Apr 06, 2021
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Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
8:30 - With the by-elections now decided, Mark Carney's Liberals have secured a majority in the House of Commons, comple...