Sarah Mills: Where have social rules gone?
Sarah Mills says new signs at a gym forbidding filming in the changing room indicate that we live in a selfish world whe...
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Being on the East Coast a double-edged sword in COVID-19 pandemic medical battle
HALIFAX - Being a small East Coast province in the pandemic is a double-edged sword: there are fewer critically ill patients, but the supply of hospital beds is limited if the...
Apr 03, 2020
First Nations face governance crisis as pandemic threatens elections
OTTAWA - The chief of an Ontario First Nation says her community is caught up in bureaucratic and "paternalistic" voting rules that could leave it with a governance gap in the midd...
Apr 03, 2020
Feds urge med students, retirees to volunteer in the fight against COVID-19
OTTAWA - The federal government is seeking volunteers with medical experience to provide backup support in the fight against COVID-19. Health Canada is creating a database of specialized voluntee...
Apr 03, 2020
CEO out, new board chair in as Liberals shakeup infrastructure bank leadership
OTTAWA - The federal government is shaking up the people in the top spots at the Canada Infrastructure Bank, including saying goodbye to the chief executive and installing a new board chair. Out is Pi...
Apr 03, 2020
Ontario closing more businesses effective Saturday to limit spread of COVID-19
TORONTO - The sacrifices Ontarians have made recently have saved thousands from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier Doug Ford said Friday, even as he announced more stringent measu...
Apr 03, 2020
Campaigning in a time of crisis: Tory leadership candidates carry on
OTTAWA - Ease into the pitch slowly, get the cheques in the mail, plan to keep making new plans and above all else - don't get complacent. That's the advice the Nova Scotia wing of Peter MacKay's Cons...
Apr 03, 2020
Feds offer full-time work to all military reservists as part of COVID-19 response
OTTAWA - The federal government is planning to offer full-time employment to all reservists in the Canadian Armed Forces until the end of the summer as it seeks to bolster the military's ranks and hel...
Apr 03, 2020
Grassy Narrows signs deal with Ottawa on mercury poisoning treatment centre
OTTAWA - The federal government has signed an agreement with Grassy Narrows First Nation that will see a long-promised treatment centre for residents with mercury poisoning finally built in ...
Apr 03, 2020
GST credit payments to low-income earners to arrive one month earlier
OTTAWA - The federal government is speeding up financial help to low-income earners hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with payments through the GST credit a month sooner than planned as it prepares to del...
Apr 03, 2020
Scheer calls for more oversight of government's COVID-19 response
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling for the Liberals to be more transparent about their response to the COVID-19 crisis. He wants the government to release all its data on the spread...
Apr 03, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Ending door-to-door is the future for Canada Post
Rural Sask. has picked up mail from shared mailboxes for decades. Now, it will be the same in some parts of in Regina an...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, Sept. 21
8:30 - Parliament resumes in Ottawa today! And with an abnormally busy summer full of announcements, tariffs, a trade wa...