Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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How to build a government: Transition challenges await Biden
WILMINGTON, Del. - Joe Biden just won the presidency. That may turn out to be the easy part. The president-elect already was braced to deal with the worst health crisis the nation has seen in more tha...
Nov 06, 2020
Evangelicals stick with Trump, see upside even if he loses
WASHINGTON - The conservative evangelical Christians who helped send Donald Trump to the White House four years ago stuck by him in 2020. But even if Trump doesn't get a second term, some conservative...
Nov 06, 2020
Euphoria floods city streets across U.S. after Joe Biden clinches White House win
WASHINGTON, Wash. - America's political fever finally broke Saturday, sending frustrated and fed-up U.S. voters pouring into city streets across the United States, giddy with unbridled delight at Joe ...
Nov 06, 2020
Trump chief of staff Meadows diagnosed with COVID-19
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic. Two senior administrati...
Nov 06, 2020
Judicial recount coming in B.C. seat where Liberals upset Greens by 41 votes
VICTORIA - A judicial recount is coming for a race in the British Columbia election after mail-in ballots put the Liberals ahead by only 41 votes in an upset to the Greens. Elections BC says the final...
Nov 06, 2020
Perdue, Ossoff head to Georgia US Senate runoff
ATLANTA - Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia for Perdue's Senate seat, one of two high-profile contests in the state that could deter...
Nov 06, 2020
Despite thousands of mail-in ballots, Elections BC says final count on schedule
VICTORIA - Elections BC is aiming to count more than 660,000 mail-in and absentee ballots by late Sunday in the effort to reach a final count for British Columbia's recent provincial election, but it ...
Nov 06, 2020
COVID challenge: Alberta premier urges end to house parties as infections rise
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney is strongly urging Albertans to stop holding house parties and get-togethers to bend the curve on sharply rising COVID-19 cases. Alberta reported just over 1,400 new ca...
Nov 06, 2020
Federal guidance for border agency surveillance and sources drafted but never issued
OTTAWA - A newly released memo shows Canada's border agency signed off on rules to guide its most intrusive intelligence operations months ago, but the federal government has yet to issue the minister...
Nov 06, 2020
Surging infections in Manitoba a COVID-19 cautionary tale: experts
WINNIPEG - Manitoba was a beacon of hope when the first wave of COVID-19 hit Canada. The province had some of the lowest infection rates in the country and went weeks in the summer with no new cases. ...
Nov 06, 2020
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...