Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he hopes OHL can return with bodychecking
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is leaving the door open for bodychecking to remain in the Ontario Hockey League for the upcoming season. Ford tweeted Saturday night that he is working on a return...
Oct 31, 2020
Thousands of new COVID-19 cases in central Canada; Manitoba's case count stays high
Ontario and Quebec are both reporting more than one thousand new COVID-19 cases, while farther west in Manitoba, officials again reported hundreds of new cases as its capital city gets set for tighter...
Oct 31, 2020
Soldier dies during training exercise on Alberta military base: defence department
A Canadian soldier died Saturday after being shot during a training exercise at a military base in Alberta. The soldier suffered a gunshot wound late Friday night while taking part in live fire traini...
Oct 31, 2020
N.S. Mi'kmaq chiefs demand stop of alleged federal plans to seize lobster traps
HALIFAX - A group of Nova Scotia Indigenous leaders has levelled harassment allegations at the federal government over an ongoing moderate livelihood fishery dispute, accusing the department responsib...
Oct 31, 2020
If 2020 is like 2000, Trump believes he's got the votes
WASHINGTON - More than 86 million Americans have already voted in the presidential election, but President Donald Trump thinks he can count on one hand the votes that will determine the outcome. "I th...
Oct 31, 2020
Obama: Trump failed to take pandemic, presidency seriously
DETROIT - Calling Joe Biden his "brother," Barack Obama on Saturday accused Donald Trump of failing to take the coronavirus pandemic and the presidency seriously as Democrats leaned on America's first...
Oct 31, 2020
Parks Canada plans first captive breeding program for Jasper National Park caribou
EDMONTON - Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding progr...
Oct 30, 2020
'We are at risk:' Leadership sounds alarm as COVID-19 cases surge among First Nations
WINNIPEG - Grand Chief Arlen Dumas shook his head in shock when he saw the line indicating new First Nations infections on a chart during the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs most recent COVID-19 meeting.&...
Oct 30, 2020
Trudeau government eyes national declassification centre for historical spy documents
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is looking at ways to pry open Canada's neglected national security vaults, possibly through creation of a centre to declassify historical documents, a newly released m...
Oct 30, 2020
Horgan's cabinet has many openings for newcomers and veterans after election victory
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan has several spots to fill in his cabinet after losing seven ministers who didn't run again but winning a New Democrat majority in British Columbia gives him advantages w...
Oct 30, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...