Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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Study: 1st Berlin fest chief had significant Nazi-era role
BERLIN - A study has concluded that the founding director of the Berlin International Film Festival made a "not insignificant" contribution to the German film system under Nazi rule and later covered ...
Sep 30, 2020
Blanchet, O'Toole return to Parliament, urge Canadians to guard against COVID-19
OTTAWA - A sombre Yves-Francois Blanchet reflected Wednesday on his own experience with COVID-19, saying he was lucky to have caught a mild case of the illness but that many Canadians are not so fortu...
Sep 30, 2020
US says it will block palm oil from large Malaysian producer
The United States will block shipments of palm oil from a major Malaysian producer that feeds into the supply chains of iconic U.S. food and cosmetic brands. It found indicators of forced labour, incl...
Sep 30, 2020
Financial aid for workers hurt by COVID-19 gets unanimous support in Commons
OTTAWA - The House of Commons has unanimously passed legislation authorizing new benefits for workers left jobless or underemployed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the process, the minority Liberal gover...
Sep 30, 2020
Trump to far-right extremists: 'Stand back and stand by'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn't condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a "left-wing" problem and telling one far-r...
Sep 30, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): --- 7:14 p.m. B.C. has confirmed 125 new cases of COVID-19 in the past day and no one else has died from the illness, leaving th...
Sep 30, 2020
14 days of solitude: The lonely success of the 'Atlantic bubble'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Laurie Leek has spent four of the past eight weeks alone in her home in St. John's. She was alone for her birthday. She was alone in the weeks immediately following her mother...
Sep 30, 2020
Debate veers from 'How you doing?' to 'Will you shut up?'
CLEVELAND - It started out civilly enough, with President Donald Trump striding deliberately to his lectern, and Democrat Joe Biden nodding to his opponent and offering a "How you doing, man?" But wit...
Sep 29, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: False claims flood Trump-Biden debate
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabrications and fear-mongering in a belligerent debate with Joe Biden, at one point claiming that the U.S. death toll would have been 10 tim...
Sep 29, 2020
Barrett tied to faith group ex-members say subjugates women
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head" of the family and ...
Sep 29, 2020
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Murray Wood: The Art of the CUSMA Deal
Insults, complaints that Canada is so mean, warnings the U.S. doesn't need us. It's all standard operating procedure. Th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...