Murray Wood: Trump's tantrum over job data shows he's a weak leader
Murray Wood says U.S. President Donald Trump only seems to care about data that makes him look good, as he demonstrated ...
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B.C. or Ontario? Residential school survivors fight move of court battle
TORONTO - A bitterly fought legal battle between survivors of a brutal residential school and the federal government is slated for an appeal hearing this week over whether the case should now be moved...
Sep 20, 2020
Preparations underway for pandemic election in Saskatchewan and maybe B.C.
VANCOUVER - Election administrators in British Columbia are ready with hand sanitizer for voters and personal protective equipment for polling station workers as part of a pandemic plan similar to one...
Sep 20, 2020 An election worker carries a sign at a voting place for the New Brunswick provincial election in Quispamsis, N.B., Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Election administrators in British Columbia are ready with hand sanitizer for voters and personal protective equipment for polling-station workers as part of a pandemic plan similar to one used recently in New Brunswick.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Letter containing ricin sent to White House may have come from Canada: RCMP
OTTAWA - Canadian law enforcement has been called in to help the FBI investigate after American authorities found that an envelope addressed to the White House contained the poison ricin. "Initial inf...
Sep 19, 2020
B.C. migrant, undocumented workers rally for permanent residency program
VANCOUVER - Migrant workers and advocates called for a "just recovery" from the COVID-19 pandemic during a digital rally on Saturday. The pandemic has shown how heavily Canada relies on migrant a...
Sep 19, 2020
New tools, ideas needed to speed up housing strategy funding, CMHC president says
OTTAWA - The national housing strategy will need new tools to move more quickly from ideas to finished projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, says the head of the federal housing agency. The Canada Ho...
Sep 19, 2020
Some highlights from the life and career of former prime minister John Turner
TORONTO - Some highlights from the life and career of former prime minister John Turner: June 7, 1929: John Napier Wyndham Turner is born in Richmond, England. 1932: Turner and his mother move to Brit...
Sep 19, 2020
Canada's Kennedy to yesterday's man: former PM John Turner dead at 91
TORONTO - Former prime minister John Turner, whose odyssey from a "Liberal dream in motion" to a political anachronism spanned 30 years, has died at the age of 91. Marc Kealey, a former aide spea...
Sep 19, 2020
QuickQuotes: Public figures react to death of former prime minister John Turner
Former prime minister John Turner, who led the country for just 79 days in the summer of 1984, has died at 91. News of his death Saturday sparked an outpouring of tributes online from fellow politicia...
Sep 19, 2020
Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. When court was in session, she often had her head down, sometimes leading visitors to think she was asleep. She once acknowledged t...
Sep 18, 2020
Virtual voting tests underway as House of Commons set to return for throne speech
OTTAWA - Tests of how MPs can vote virtually are underway ahead of the planned return of Parliament Wednesday. The Liberal minority government is set to deliver a speech from the throne to lay out an ...
Sep 18, 2020
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, August 8
8:30 - It's been a week since Canada was hit by a 35 per cent tariff on Canadian goods not protected by CUMSA. Earlier t...