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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Racism common in health system says head of Native Women's Shelter of Montreal
MONTREAL - The executive director of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal says racism against Indigenous people is so common at local hospitals that her organization escorts clients to medical visit...
Sep 30, 2020
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole lambastes Liberals' handing of pandemic
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole used his first speech in the House of Commons as party leader to lambaste the Liberal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In his formal repl...
Sep 30, 2020
Another First Nation in Nova Scotia set to start self-regulated lobster fishery
HALIFAX - A First Nation in southern Cape Breton is set to become the second Indigenous band in Nova Scotia to launch a self-regulated commercial lobster fishery that will operate outside the regular ...
Sep 30, 2020
Lack of funding hampering aid to domestic violence survivors, report says
OTTAWA - A study on shelters helping survivors of domestic violence become independent says a lack of funding is getting in the way of providing programs and retaining quality staff. The study's autho...
Sep 30, 2020
Judge approves $800M payout plan for Vegas shooting victims
LAS VEGAS - A court on Wednesday approved a total of $800 million in payouts from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas St...
Sep 30, 2020
Man charged in shooting of 2 Los Angeles County deputies
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors charged a 36-year-old man Wednesday with a brazen ambush of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies earlier this month, an apparently unprovoked shooting as they sat in a s...
Sep 30, 2020
Health Canada green-lights rapid COVID-19 test
OTTAWA - Health Canada has given the green light to a rapid test for COVID-19 that could be deployed to long-term care homes and schools to take pressure off provincial testing systems. But neither th...
Sep 30, 2020
Quebec introduces 'telewarrant' system as Ontario releases new COVID-19 modelling
MONTREAL - Quebec's premier promised to crack down on those who violate public health orders and Ontario released sobering COVID-19 projections as leaders of Canada's two hardest-hit provinces on Wedn...
Sep 30, 2020
Secretive, never profitable Palantir makes market debut
BOSTON - Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, the data-mining outfit Palantir Technologies is finally going public in the biggest Wall Street tech offering since last yea...
Sep 30, 2020
Missing ballots, donations, last-minute rule changes undermine Green race: candidates
OTTAWA - Missing ballots and donations, combined with last-minute rule changes, have two contenders for the federal Green party's leadership questioning the legitimacy of the race. Leadership hopeful ...
Sep 30, 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 ...