Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack
WASHINGTON - U.S. defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the FBI t...
Jan 17, 2021
A chronological history of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project
A timeline of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project: July 2008: TC Energy Corp. (TSX: TRP) - then called TransCanada Corp. - and ConocoPhillips, joint owners of the Keystone Pipeline, propose...
Jan 17, 2021
Transition documents suggest Biden plans Day 1 order rescinding Keystone XL permit
WASHINGTON - One of Joe Biden's first actions once he becomes U.S. president Wednesday will be to slam the door yet again on Canada's politically fraught Keystone XL pipeline expansion, transition doc...
Jan 17, 2021
In inaugural address, Biden will appeal to national unity
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he is sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Do...
Jan 17, 2021
Heavily fortified statehouses around US see small protests
Small groups of right-wing protesters - some of them carrying rifles - gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday, outnumbered by National Guard troops and police brought...
Jan 17, 2021
New video marks Canada's contributions to first Gulf War on 30th anniversary
OTTAWA - Petty officer Richard Austin was sitting at his position on board HMCS Athabaskan when he heard a clang. It was 1991, and the Canadian destroyer was traversing an Iraqi minefield in the Persi...
Jan 17, 2021
COVID-19 hospitalizations drop in Quebec and Ontario; cases spike in New Brunswick
MONTREAL - A decline in the number hospitalizations in Ontario and Quebec on Sunday provided some small glimmers of a hope in a day marked by a rising COVID-19 death toll and record-breaking cases in ...
Jan 17, 2021
No place for 'far right' in Conservative Party, Erin O'Toole says
OTTAWA - Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole pushed back against attempts to link his party to Trump-style politics on Sunday, saying there is "no place for the far right" in the Tories while acc...
Jan 17, 2021
'Morally and ethically wrong:' Court to hear challenge to Alberta coal policy removal
First Nations, ranchers, municipal officials and environmentalists hope to persuade a judge this week to force Alberta to revisit its decision to open one of the province's most important and best-lov...
Jan 17, 2021
Gen. Milley key to military continuity as Biden takes office
WASHINGTON - In taking charge of a Pentagon battered by leadership churn, the Biden administration will look to one holdover as a source of military continuity: Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint...
Jan 17, 2021
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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