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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Feds double COVID-19 fund for abused women to $100 million
OTTAWA - People are told to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic to stay safe, but homes are not safe places for abused women, says Silvia Samsa, the executive director of Women's Habitat. Samsa's o...
Oct 08, 2020
Supreme Court declines to review sentence in stabbing of Manitoba teenager
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not review the eight-year sentence handed to a man who stabbed a teenager at a church.Maksym Kravchenko assaulted the girl in a washroom after a Sunday servic...
Oct 08, 2020
Nunavut minister stripped of portfolios says he does not regret social media post
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's former housing minister says he does not regret making a Facebook post about the Black Lives Matter movement that saw him stripped of his cabinet portfolios. A post ...
Oct 08, 2020
Quebec moves more regions to maximum COVID alert as province reports 1,078 new cases
MONTREAL - Authorities moved most of the cities along the St. Lawrence River between Quebec City and Montreal to the highest COVID-19 alert level Thursday, as the government pleaded with people to sta...
Oct 08, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Pence echoes Trump misfires in VP debate
WASHINGTON - Although more buttoned-up on the stage than his boss, Vice-President Mike Pence nevertheless echoed many of President Donald Trump's falsehoods Wednesday in the one and only debate with D...
Oct 08, 2020
Absent any new policy, carbon tax must rise to meet Paris emission targets, PBO says
OTTAWA - The cost to consumers of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's keystone environmental policy will have to rise if the country is to meet its Paris climate accord goals, the parliamentary budget off...
Oct 08, 2020
Trust and situational awareness key to success of the Forces' most famous tweeter
OTTAWA - Trust.Capt. Kirk Sullivan is talking about running what has become one of the most talked-about Twitter accounts in the federal government.In particular, he is explaining why he doesn't have ...
Oct 08, 2020
Germany, which had virus under control, sees a jump in cases
BERLIN - Germany is seeing a sharp jump in new coronavirus infections, a development that is raising fears the pandemic is picking up pace in a country that so far has coped better than many of its Eu...
Oct 08, 2020
Uncertainty in Madrid as court nixes partial virus lockdown
MADRID - A court in Madrid on Thursday struck down a national government order that imposed a partial lockdown in the Spanish capital and its suburbs, siding with regional officials who had resisted s...
Oct 08, 2020
Path to economic recovery filled with risks that need to be managed, Macklem says
OTTAWA - The governor of the Bank of Canada is warning that unprecedented economic measures to help families and businesses manage the pandemic may add potholes on the road to recovery. Tiff Mac...
Oct 08, 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...