Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look back at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list ...
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Shutdown, impeachment, virus: Chaotic Congress winds down
WASHINGTON - Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, an...
Dec 31, 2020
Moe rejects NDP calls for Hargrave's removal from cabinet
Despite calls from the opposition for his ouster, it appears Joe Hargrave will remain Saskatchewan's minister of highways. In an emailed statement Thursday afternoon, Premier Scott Moe's office said H...
Dec 31, 2020 Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili. (Logan Stein/980 CJME file photo)
US to move aircraft carrier out of Mideast amid Iran tension
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that will reduce American firepower in the region amid heightened tensions with I...
Dec 31, 2020
Quebec changes COVID-19 vaccine strategy, won't hold back doses for booster shots
MONTREAL - Quebec is accelerating its vaccination rollout by inoculating as many people as possible instead of holding back doses to be given later as booster shots. "All the vaccines that we have rec...
Dec 31, 2020
Feds enlist IBM to help design gun buyback program
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has awarded a contract to IBM Canada to support the development, design and implementation of a buyback program for recently prohibited firearms.The contract is worth a...
Dec 31, 2020
Finance note says lifting lockdowns, restrictions no sure road to economic recovery
OTTAWA - Officials believed in late summer that an economic recovery would not magically happen if lockdowns and public health restrictions disappeared, a newly obtained federal document shows.The int...
Dec 31, 2020
Dick Thornburgh, ex-governor and US attorney general, dies
Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by ...
Dec 31, 2020
Industry, local mayors say they weren't consulted on B.C. fish farm phase out plan
VANCOUVER - Several Vancouver Island mayors and members of British Columbia's salmon farming industry say a federal decision to phase out fish farming has left them feeling "disposable and discarded."...
Dec 31, 2020
Liberals say testing rules for air travellers land Jan.7, urge people to prepare
OTTAWA - Anyone arriving in Canada starting Jan. 7 will need to have a negative COVID-19 test before boarding a flight, the federal government said Thursday as the Liberals urged vacationers abroad to...
Dec 31, 2020
A pandemic and an election: NDP's Meili looks back on busy 2020
Like many others in 2020, Ryan Meili is ready to leave the year in the rear-view mirror. "It has been a pretty hard year for folks across the province and around the world. I'm hoping we learn somethi...
Dec 31, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
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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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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...