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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N.S., B.C. police watchdogs to probe officers' destruction of evidence in Assoun case
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog agency is asking its British Columbia equivalent to assist in probing whether officers broke the law when evidence was destroyed in the case of a wrongfully con...
Oct 16, 2020
'A tragedy for Quebec': Pierre Laporte's death remembered 50 years later
MONTREAL - At age 91, Marc Lalonde still remembers the shock he felt on Oct. 17, 1970 when Pierre Laporte's body was discovered in the trunk of a car at an airport south of Montreal, a week after he h...
Oct 16, 2020
Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba look to ramp up restrictions as COVID caseload nears 200K
Several provinces are looking to ramp up COVID-19 restrictions as new hotspots crop up across the map, pushing Canada's caseload closer to the 200,000 mark. Canada's chief public health officer says t...
Oct 16, 2020
Early figures for new aid and EI provide glimpse of how post-CERB supports to be used
OTTAWA - The employment insurance system absorbed almost 1.3 million people in the last three weeks, new figures show, as a key COVID-19 benefit wound down.A breakdown of applications for the simplifi...
Oct 16, 2020
Man accused of threatening PM in Rideau Hall incident to appear in court next month
OTTAWA - A man accused of roaming while heavily armed near the residences of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Governor General this summer will be back in court next month.Corey Hurren made a bri...
Oct 16, 2020
Quebec refers case of provincial police chief for ethics probe, possible removal
QUEBEC - The Quebec government has asked for an investigation that could lead to the removal of the embattled chief of the provincial police, the province's public security minister said Friday. Marti...
Oct 16, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Rhetoric from Trump, Biden in the non-debate
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Here's how some ...
Oct 16, 2020
White House rejects Putin response to US arms control offer
WASHINGTON - The U.S. and Russia on Friday rejected each other's proposals for potentially salvaging the last remaining legal constraint on their strategic nuclear forces. President Vladimir Putin cal...
Oct 16, 2020
Belarus's exiled opposition leader holds Canada in her heart, Champagne says
OTTAWA - The exiled opposition leader of Belarus holds Canada in her heart for its support of her embattled country's pro-democracy movement, Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said F...
Oct 16, 2020
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister becomes acting president
MOSCOW - Kyrgyzstan's prime minister became the acting head of state Friday in the wake of the president's resignation amid turmoil sparked by a disputed parliamentary election. Supporters of newly ap...
Oct 16, 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
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...