Murray Wood: All hail the placekicker! Except when he misses
Alex Hale was supposed to make us forget about Brett Lauther, but how can we? Murray Wood says Hale has struggled, while...
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Port of Montreal to resume operations as legislation forces dock workers back to work
MONTREAL - Operations at the Port of Montreal were expected to resume gradually beginning Saturday after the Senate passed legislation forcing striking workers back on the job. The House of Commons ap...
May 01, 2021
'Relatively bleak:' Post-secondary students face rising debt and few summer jobs
CALGARY - Michelle Benz thought she was playing it smart when she went back to school after being laid off from the oil and gas sector six years ago. She completed her bachelor of urban planning at th...
May 01, 2021
The COVID-Zero approach: Why Atlantic Canada excels at slowing the spread of COVID-19
HALIFAX - Canadians living outside the Atlantic region could be forgiven for rolling their eyes when Nova Scotia called in the military this week, having reported just 96 new cases of COVID-19 on Tues...
May 01, 2021
Biden to veer from Trump, Obama policies in taking on NKorea
WASHINGTON - The White House says President Joe Biden plans to veer from the approaches of his two most recent predecessors as he tries to stop North Korea's nuclear program, rejecting both Donald Tru...
May 01, 2021
GOP seeks to convince vaccine skeptics within its own ranks
WASHINGTON - When a group of Republican doctors in Congress released a video selling the safety of the coronavirus vaccine, their message wasn't explicitly aimed at their conservative constituents, bu...
May 01, 2021
How the Gaetz probe grew from sex trafficking to medical pot
ORLANDO, Fla. - When Rep. Matt Gaetz vacationed in the Bahamas in 2018, he was joined by a doctor who donated to his campaign and a former colleague in the Florida Legislature. The Republican congress...
May 01, 2021
76,000 California inmates now eligible for earlier releases
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier as the state aims to further trim the population of what once was...
May 01, 2021
Hospitalizations, ICU admissions growing for younger Canadians in third wave
OTTAWA - High vaccination rates among seniors and more infectious variants of COVID-19 are shifting the weight of the pandemic in Canada to younger people. An analysis of data published online by Heal...
May 01, 2021
'People were upset': Parliament's language interpreters told no sick pay during COVID
OTTAWA - Interpreters who have been the French or English voice of politicians and top doctors for the public during the COVID-19 pandemic say a federal department has told them that if they fall ill,...
May 01, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Saturday, May 1, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, May 1, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 288,327 new vaccinations administered for a total of 13,420,19...
May 01, 2021
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Sarah Mills: Oprah Winfrey is trying to rewrite history
Oprah has been asked to look back on her infamous interview with Prince Harry and Megan Markle. But rather than review h...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, July 27
On Monday's show, Evan talks U.S. tariffs, the postponed Post Malone show in Edmonton, youth unemployment in Canada, ano...