Sarah Mills: Snowbirds' grounding is a chance for Liberal government to stand behind its words
We are told the Snowbirds will return. We are told that the plan is to get new planes quickly. Sarah Mills says now, the...
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Whale Sanctuary Project in Nova Scotia renews bid to get two whales from France
HALIFAX - The group behind a project to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales in Nova Scotia has renewed its bid to provide a seaside sanctuary for two killer whales living in ...
Apr 22, 2025
Miscommunication blamed for some Manitoba inmates being unable to vote: report
WINNIPEG - Roughly half of the inmates at a jail west of Winnipeg couldn't vote in the last provincial election due to a series of events that included miscommunication among election workers, a repor...
Apr 22, 2025
Ontario to spend $750 million on STEM programs at universities, colleges
TORONTO - Ontario says it will invest $750 million to boost funding for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at colleges and universities across the province. Colleges and Univers...
Apr 22, 2025
US and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. and global economies will likely slow significantly in the wake of President Donald Trump's tariffs and the uncertainty they have created, the International Monetary Fund sa...
Apr 22, 2025
New climate institute at University of Toronto launched with $60M gift
TORONTO - The University of Toronto is launching a new climate institute with the help of a $60-million gift. The interdisciplinary Lawson Climate Institute is expected to focus on sustainable technol...
Apr 22, 2025
'I won't be the last': Tréchelle Bunn elected as first female chief of Dakota nation
WINNIPEG - Trchelle Bunn has had a whirlwind month. She wrapped up her two-year tenure as one of the Southern Chiefs' Organization youth chiefs, finished her second year of law school at the Universit...
Apr 22, 2025
Harvard sues Trump administration to stop the freeze of more than $2 billion in grants
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University announced Monday that it has filed suit to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration'...
Apr 21, 2025
Vancouver Island city-owned clinic on track to sign two more doctors, mayor says
COLWOOD - A British Columbia city on Vancouver Island that's hiring doctors as municipal employees is "very close" to hiring two more physicians, and its mayor believes it will eventually exceed its g...
Apr 21, 2025
Alberta's request to question fired health executive over confidential emails granted
EDMONTON - A judge has granted Alberta's government its request to question the former head of the provincial health authority about confidential emails she is accused of keeping and sharing without p...
Apr 21, 2025
Google faces off with US government in attempt to break up company in search monopoly case
WASHINGTON (AP) - Google is confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into an illegal monopoly. T...
Apr 21, 2025
OPINION
Murray Wood: Is this the end of the Snowbirds, or just this era?
The federal government is promising Canada's famous aerobatic team will return, and don't governments always keep their ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, May 20
On Wednesday's show, Evan talks about the Snowbirds with an alumnus and Tourism Moose Jaw to understand the impact of th...