Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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Cabinet glass ceiling shattered as Chrystia Freeland named finance minister
OTTAWA - Chrystia Freeland shattered a glass ceiling Tuesday, becoming the first woman to be sworn in as Canada's finance minister. The gravitas of the moment was not lost on the former journalist and...
Aug 18, 2020
Cindy McCain details husband's friendship with Biden for DNC
WILMINGTON, Del. - Cindy McCain is going to bat for Joe Biden, lending her voice to a video set to air during Tuesday night's Democratic National Convention programming focused on Biden's close friend...
Aug 18, 2020
Prorogation of Parliament: what does it mean and what happens next?
OTTAWA - Parliament has been prorogued until Sept. 23, when there will be a speech from the throne. Here is what that means and what could come next. Word - The term comes through Middle English and O...
Aug 18, 2020
Longtime Conservative MP Diane Finley says she won't run in next election
OTTAWA - Longtime Conservative MP Diane Finley says she's not running in the next election. Finley says she's had a "heck of a ride" but it's time to move forward. She's represented the Ontario riding...
Aug 18, 2020
The Latest: Parliament prorogued, Freeland promoted in Liberal cabinet shuffle
OTTAWA - The latest developments on Aug. 18, 2020 as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeks to shuffle his cabinet and prorogue Parliament. (All times eastern.) 4:39 p.m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sa...
Aug 18, 2020
Joe Gosnell, Nisga'a chief who led nation to landmark treaty, dies of cancer
NEW AIYANSH, B.C. - Joe Gosnell, a renowned treaty negotiator, politician and leader of the Nisga'a Nation, has died at the age of 84. The Nisga'a Lisims government said Tuesday that Gosnell ...
Aug 18, 2020
Trump angling for votes with immigration talk, nod to women
YUMA, Ariz. - Grappling for votes - and the spotlight - as Democrats hold their national convention, President Donald Trump reached back Tuesday to the signature issue of his 2016 campaign to deliver ...
Aug 18, 2020
Parties urged to agree on safe way to hold possible election in pandemic
OTTAWA - What happens if Canada's minority Liberal government is defeated this fall and Elections Canada concludes it can't safely conduct an election because a second wave of the deadly coronavirus i...
Aug 18, 2020
Trudeau unsure about sending his kids to school, as poll suggests he's not alone
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says he remains on the fence about sending his three kids back to school this fall, and a new survey suggests he is not alone as many parents are nervous about the resumption o...
Aug 18, 2020
Bill Morneau leaves cabinet, federal politics, as suddenly as he arrived
OTTAWA - William Francis Morneau leaves federal politics as suddenly as he burst onto the Ottawa scene less than five years ago. In November 2015, the newly elected Liberal member for Toronto Cen...
Aug 18, 2020
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...