Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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CBSA manager told not to take notes after Meng arrest in case of access request
VANCOUVER - A senior manager with the Canada Border Services Agency says she was instructed not to take notes after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou - an arrest that will be under court scr...
Dec 09, 2020
Battle lines drawn for first ministers' meeting on health care
OTTAWA - Premiers aren't expecting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to agree immediately to their demand for at least $28 billion more each year for health care. First ministers are scheduled to meet via...
Dec 09, 2020
Quebec tables bill to give families of missing Indigenous children access to records
QUEBEC - The Quebec government introduced legislation on Wednesday that would allow relatives of Indigenous children who disappeared or died after being admitted to health-care facilities to obtain in...
Dec 09, 2020
U.S. issues challenge to Canada's dairy quotas in first test of new trade agreement
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States opened a new chapter Wednesday in the book of trade tensions with Canada, formally complaining that U.S. dairy producers are being unfairly shut out of markets nor...
Dec 09, 2020
US govt, states sue Facebook for 'predatory' conduct
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook Wednesday, accusing it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors and seeking remedies tha...
Dec 09, 2020
Quebec government lawyers tell court Bill 21 is not a violation of freedoms
MONTREAL - The Quebec government does not believe its secularism law violates freedom of religion, but rather it serves to frame it, one of its lawyers told a court Wednesday. As those defending the l...
Dec 09, 2020
Gunman behind mass shooting in Nova Scotia had targets in Halifax: search warrants
HALIFAX - Newly released documents suggest the gunman behind the April mass shooting in Nova Scotia had planned to "get" a pair of people in Halifax during his rampage, but the Mounties were warned by...
Dec 09, 2020
Minks test positive for COVID-19 on B.C. farm where workers sick
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A COVID-19 outbreak at a British Columbia mink farm likely spread from eight workers to some of the animals, says the province's chief veterinarian. Test results from five mink samp...
Dec 09, 2020
Pennsylvania governor says he's tested positive for COVID-19
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday he has contracted COVID-19 and is isolating at home, revealing the diagnosis after several members of his security detail recently tested po...
Dec 09, 2020
COVID-19 detected in Yellowknife wastewater, some people asked to get tested
The government of the Northwest Territories says it has found COVID-19 in wastewater in Yellowknife. The N.W.T.'s chief public health officer, Dr. Kami Kondola, says this means there is likely an unde...
Dec 09, 2020
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...