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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French ex-President Sarkozy's trial for corruption suspended
PARIS - The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling was suspended Monday less than two hours after it started, to allow a medical report on one of the de...
Nov 23, 2020
Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong taken into custody after guilty plea
HONG KONG - Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and two other activists were taken into custody Monday after they pleaded guilty to charges related to a demonstration outside police...
Nov 23, 2020
Canadian officials also obtained security code for Meng's home, court hears
VANCOUVER - The RCMP officer who took custody of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's electronics on the day of her arrest two years ago says foreign law enforcement never asked him to obtain the passcodes...
Nov 22, 2020
Rent relief opens for business as Liberals set to deliver economic update on Nov. 30
OTTAWA - The federal government's latest lifeline to cash-strapped businesses landed with a swirl of anxiety as companies face an uncertain future that may become clearer next week when the Liberals t...
Nov 22, 2020
New COVID-19 restrictions coming into effect as case numbers soar across Canada
Regions across Canada braced for a host of new public health restrictions on Sunday as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sent case counts soaring from coast to coast.Surging case counts that re...
Nov 22, 2020
Trudeau joins G20 in promising COVID-19 aid to poor nations, rejecting protectionism
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined leaders from the world's 20 richest nations on Sunday in a promise to work together to keep trade flowing, fight climate change and provide COVID-19 vacci...
Nov 22, 2020
Confrontation at German coronavirus protest goes viral
BERLIN - A video went viral Sunday in Germany of a confrontation at a coronavirus protest, where a young woman compared herself to a famous Nazi resistance fighter and then was accused by a security g...
Nov 22, 2020
Trump's legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
PHILADELPHIA - As they frantically searched for ways to salvage President Donald Trump's failed reelection bid, his campaign pursued a dizzying game of legal hopscotch across six states that centred o...
Nov 22, 2020
Exclusion of mental illness in assisted dying-bill slammed by psychiatrists
OTTAWA - The federal bill revising the rules on medically assisted death in Canada has raised the ire of the Canadian Psychiatric Association over the proposed law's explicit rejection of mental illne...
Nov 22, 2020
Azerbaijanis who fled war look to return home, if it exists
BAKU, Azerbaijan - As Azerbaijan regains control of land it lost to Armenian forces a quarter-century ago, civilians who fled the fighting decades ago wonder if they can go back home now - and if ther...
Nov 22, 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
On Thursday's show, Evan welcomes a trio of teens to discuss banning social media for children and teenagers, discusses ...