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Final report of foreign interference inquiry to be made public next Tuesday
OTTAWA - The final report of the federal inquiry into foreign interference is set for public release next Tuesday. The commission of inquiry's most recent public hearings looked at the ability of agen...
Jan 21, 2025
Canadian doctor says WHO headquarters 'stressed, devastated' as Trump orders U.S. exit
TORONTO - Staff at the World Health Organization are "devastated" by President Donald Trump's executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency, a Canadian global health specialist says. Dr. Madhukar...
Jan 21, 2025
Manitoba government runs ads on electricity rate freeze that has not been approved
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is running an advertising campaign to tout a freeze on electricity rates even though the freeze has yet to be approved and could be rejected. The ads, including soci...
Jan 21, 2025
Trans activist wants federal guidance on U.S. travel after Trump orders
OTTAWA - A prominent trans activist wants Canada to update its travel safety guidelines for the United States following President Donald Trump's executive order limiting gender expression to male or f...
Jan 21, 2025 Fae Johnstone, executive director of the Society of Queer Momentum, speaks during a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (Spencer Colby/ The Canadian Press)
Musk's straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant
NEW YORK (AP) - Right-wing extremists are celebrating Elon Musk's straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday, although his intention wasn't totally clear and some hate watchdogs are saying not to rea...
Jan 21, 2025
B.C. First Nations leader reverses stance on pipeline as Trump tariff threat looms
VANCOUVER - The president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline project that would have created another route for Alberta's oi...
Jan 21, 2025
Mark Carney secures four more key endorsements in race to become Liberal leader
OTTAWA - Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney has secured the endorsements of four more current and former cabinet ministers. On Tuesday, Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, Crown-Indigenous R...
Jan 21, 2025
Smith says taxpayers must be protected from lawsuits as Alberta lifts coal moratorium
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province had taxpayers in mind when it decided to lift a ban on new coal exploration and development on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Sp...
Jan 21, 2025
White House cheers release of two Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by Biden, Qatar
WASHINGTON (AP) - A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and ter...
Jan 21, 2025
Cutting energy to U.S. in response to Trump tariffs is 'absurd,' says Bloc leader
OTTAWA - The leader of the Bloc Qubcois says Canada is playing with fire by suggesting it could cut oil or electricity exports to the United States if President Donald Trump makes good on his promise ...
Jan 21, 2025
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, August 26
Evan talks with historian Bill Waiser about Saskatchewan's 120 birthday, university associate professor Ian Lee about Ca...