Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Back home in Maryland, Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation again as he reports to ICE office
BALTIMORE (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose arrest and fight to stay in the U.S. has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, arrived Monday morning to Baltimore in anti...
Aug 25, 2025
In Warsaw, Carney deepens Canada's defence, trade ties with Poland
WARSAW - Canada and Poland struck a new strategic partnership on trade, defence and energy on Monday, as Prime Minister Mark Carney continued a five-day trip to Europe. After making a surprise visit t...
Aug 25, 2025
Advocates warn federal budget cuts could reduce diversity and inclusion initiatives
OTTAWA - Advocates are raising concerns that upcoming federal budget cuts and expected job losses in the public service will jeopardize programs intended to hire and promote people with disabilities. ...
Aug 25, 2025
Alberta municipal candidates weigh options with financial advantages given to parties
CALGARY - This year, municipal candidates in Calgary and Edmonton face a decision they've never had to make: whether to join a political party. But the choice represents more than the embrace or rejec...
Aug 25, 2025
Some Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms, Pentagon says. Trump targets more cities
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some National Guard units patrolling the nation's capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms, an escalation of his military deployment that mak...
Aug 24, 2025
Ottawa Pride parade cancelled due to pro-Palestinian protesters
OTTAWA - Ottawa's annual Pride parade was cancelled Sunday after being disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters. Parade organizers say members of a group called Queers for Palestine - Ottawa were march...
Aug 24, 2025
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it's coming out
NEW YORK (AP) - A posthumous and "unsparing" memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Su...
Aug 24, 2025
Carney not ruling out Canadian troops in Ukraine if peace deal reached
KYIV - During a surprise visit to the Ukrainian capital on Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney would not rule out putting Canadian troops on the ground in Ukraine as part of an eventual security guaran...
Aug 24, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney joins Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena Zelenska as they take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial wall on Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)
Former Alberta deputy premier takes pro-Canada petition fight to driveways, dog parks
EDMONTON - Former Alberta politician Thomas Lukaszuk is a man on a not-so-lonely mission to keep Canada from splitting. "This has become a full-time job. I'm very passionate about this," the former Pr...
Aug 24, 2025
Number of female Canadian soldiers on UN peacekeeping missions craters
OTTAWA - Canada only has two women from the military deployed on United Nations peacekeeping missions right now, raising concerns Ottawa is failing to lead by example and may be called out by the inte...
Aug 24, 2025
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We came so close to the zipper merge
Three block of two lanes of traffic merging one by one, with everyone inching forward. It was the zipper merge in action...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, May 8
8:30 - We're learning that the cost to refit Saskatchewan's coal-fired power plants has climbed to $26 billion over the ...