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...
Tag Archives: Politics
Mission impossible? Welker on tap to moderate second debate
NEW YORK - This fall's presidential debates have chewed up moderators. President Donald Trump steamrolled Chris Wallace with constant interruptions in the first one, a performance that cost the Republ...
Oct 21, 2020
Florida's Pinellas County is one to watch on election night
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Latricia Robinson donned a surgical mask and marched into the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections office on a recent day to drop off her ballot, one of more than 135,000 peo...
Oct 21, 2020
'So much work to do': How Biden is planning for transition
WASHINGTON - If Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump next month, he'll quickly face a new challenge: standing up a new administration to lead a divided nation through a series of historic crises. ...
Oct 21, 2020
Canada jumps closer to military-spending target thanks to COVID-19's economic damage
OTTAWA - Canada has taken a big leap closer to meeting its promise to the NATO military alliance to spend a larger share of its economy on defence thanks to an unexpected assist from COVID-19. New NAT...
Oct 21, 2020
'Blacklisted:' Nova Scotia First Nation pulls commercial lobster boats from the water
HALIFAX - The chief of the First Nation behind a disputed moderate livelihood lobster fishery in Nova Scotia says recent vandalism and the loss of potential sales have cost the band more than $1.5 mil...
Oct 21, 2020
Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden eyes Obama boost
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the traje...
Oct 21, 2020
Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it plain that...
Oct 21, 2020
StatCan says annual inflation rate rose 0.5% in September
OTTAWA - Canada's headline inflation measure went up in September by 0.5 per cent compared with a year ago, a better-than-expected increase, but one that experts say won't sway the Bank of Canada's st...
Oct 21, 2020
Think tank uses UN Security Council appearance to appeal for Canadian's release
The president of a prominent think tank used a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday to appeal for the release of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who has been held by Beijing for n...
Oct 21, 2020
Nigeria protesters break curfew amid gunfire, chaos in Lagos
LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigerian protesters demanding an end to police brutality defied a curfew and faced off with security forces Wednesday as gunfire rang out and fires burned in Lagos, a day after shots ...
Oct 21, 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
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...