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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Desmond inquiry: No word on when fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia will resume
HALIFAX - Nearly seven months after the COVID-19 pandemic halted an inquiry into why a former soldier killed three family members and himself in Nova Scotia, there has yet to be any indication of when...
Oct 01, 2020
Promise of hybrid sittings clears way for Senate to deal with worker-aid bill
OTTAWA - The government's representative in the Senate is promising to introduce a motion Friday to hold hybrid sittings of the upper house during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Marc Gold's promise clear...
Oct 01, 2020
Greens say fundraising error is less than $10K but Murray camp is not so sure
OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada says the amount of money accidentally deposited with the party rather than Glen Murray's leadership campaign adds up to less than $10,000.Murray says he is not yet c...
Oct 01, 2020
Judge says government's suit over Bolton book can proceed
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration can move forward with its lawsuit against former national security adviser John Bolton over his tell-all book, a judge ruled Thursday in denying a request to dism...
Oct 01, 2020
Quebec cities face new COVID-19 restrictions as Ontario contends with testing backlog
Quebec reported 16 more deaths Thursday as it began the first day of new restrictions meant to flatten a spike in COVID-19 infections, while Ontario tweaked its school screening guidelines and a hospi...
Oct 01, 2020
Federal Liberals revive bill that seeks to outlaw forced LGBTQ conversion therapy
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have reintroduced a bill that would ban forcing children or adults to undergo therapy aimed at altering their sexual orientation or gender identity. The government had pr...
Oct 01, 2020
Quebec announces aid for bars, restaurants as COVID-19 restrictions take effect
MONTREAL - The Quebec government promised on Thursday financial support for bars and restaurants forced to close by the province's partial lockdown, but questions remain about how restrictions on soci...
Oct 01, 2020
Manitoba's chief public health officer discusses lessons learned during pandemic
WINNIPEG - A little more than six months into Manitoba's COVID-19 state of emergency, the province's chief public health officer says there have been lessons learned in terms of fighting the novel cor...
Oct 01, 2020
'Restoring people's faith in democracy': Sask. Green Party leader has big ambitions
It might be a small party, but it has big ambitions. The Saskatchewan Green Party is hitting the ground running for the Oct. 26 provincial election. In 2016, Green candidates got 7,967 votes, making u...
Oct 01, 2020 Saskatchewan Green Party Leader Naomi Hunter poses with an electoral map on Sept. 30, 2020. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
Military base housing Canadian troops attacked as U.S.-Iraq tensions escalate
OTTAWA - Canadian troops risk being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iraq, even as the six-year-old fight against the Islamic State group morphs into a geopolitical str...
Oct 01, 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 ...