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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Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms contracts COVID-19
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Monday that she had tested positive for COVID-19. The 50-year-old Democrat is among the women named as a potential vice-presidential running mate for presu...
Jul 06, 2020
Trump lashes out at NASCAR, Wallace over flag and noose
WASHINGTON - NASCAR's layered relationship with President Donald Trump took a sharp turn Monday when Trump blasted the racing organization for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the spor...
Jul 06, 2020
Pandemic slows disclosure of information to defence lawyers in RCMP secrets case
OTTAWA - A federal prosecutor says the disclosure of evidence to defence lawyers has "slowed significantly" in the case of Cameron Jay Ortis, an RCMP member charged with revealing secrets. Crown ...
Jul 06, 2020
Overdose deaths increase by 93 per cent among B.C.'s First Nations
VANCOUVER - The First Nations Health Authority says 89 members of its community fatally overdosed from illicit drugs across British Columbia between January and May, an increase of 93 p...
Jul 06, 2020
Trump criticizes Redskins, Indians for weighing name changes
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday criticized a pair of pro sports teams that are considering name changes in the wake of a national reckoning over racial injustice and inequality. Trump tw...
Jul 06, 2020
Trump criticizes Redskins, Indians for weighing name changes
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday criticizing a pair of sports teams that are considering name changes in the wake of a national reckoning over racial injustice and inequality. Trump tweet...
Jul 06, 2020
Clearview AI to end facial-recognition services in Canada: privacy commissioner
OTTAWA - The federal privacy commissioner says U.S. firm Clearview AI will stop offering its facial-recognition services in Canada in response to an investigation by the commissioner and three provinc...
Jul 06, 2020
Tell-all book by Trump niece to be released next week
NEW YORK - A tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece that has been the subject of a legal battle will be released next week. Publisher Simon & Schuster cited "high interest and extraordina...
Jul 06, 2020
Ontario to end streaming in Grade 9, early years suspensions
TORONTO - Ontario will soon join the rest of Canada by doing away with an educational practice that perpetuates racism throughout the system, the provincial government said Monday as it announced...
Jul 06, 2020
Unions tell MPs that grocery workers should still have pandemic pay
OTTAWA - Union leaders who represent thousands of grocery-store workers are telling MPs there is no reason for large chains to cut pandemic-related pay premiums since the COVID-19 pandemic hasn't gone...
Jul 06, 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...