Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Biden pardons Fauci, Milley to guard against potential revenge by Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, using the extraord...
Jan 20, 2025
Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential retribution by Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, using the extraord...
Jan 20, 2025
Federal cabinet braces for trade war as Donald Trump is inaugurated
OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers are gathering in Montebello, Que., today as Donald Trump returns to the White House. Trump has pledged to sign an executive order on inauguration day to impose 25 pe...
Jan 20, 2025
Rail competition pilot may not be renewed amid parliamentary break
MONTREAL - An obscure but hard-fought - and hard-lobbied - battle over railway competition has steamed back to the surface. A pilot project mandating so-called extended interswitching that aims to giv...
Jan 20, 2025
Donald Trump signals 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports could be coming Feb. 1
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested his administration could move ahead with with 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on Canadian imports on Feb. 1. He delivered the deadline on Monday...
Jan 20, 2025
Venue change for inauguration means Alberta premier will miss in-person ceremony
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith won't be at president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural ceremony on Monday after all, due to bitter cold weather forecasted for tomorrow in Washington, D.C. Smit...
Jan 19, 2025
Quick Sketch: Meet Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland
OTTAWA - Chrystia Freeland is touting her experience in government as evidence she can rebuild the Liberal party and steer the country through a perilous time. The former journalist built her career i...
Jan 19, 2025
Trump pledges a series of Day 1 executive actions to end 'four long years of American decline'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump used a raucous rally Sunday on the eve of his inauguration to promise swift Day 1 action remaking the federal government, shifting federal priorities at ...
Jan 19, 2025
Hecklers interrupt Freeland's leader campaign launch
OTTAWA - Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland has launched her bid to be the next federal Liberal leader while staring down multiple hecklers. Freeland's speech in Toronto to launch her cand...
Jan 19, 2025 Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Sunday Jan. 19, 2025, as she kicks off her campaign to become the next Liberal party leader. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn)
TikTok appears to be restoring service after U.S. ban, still available to Canadians
Canadian TikTok users may have noticed on Sunday a lack of new content from American creators as the app went dark in the United States - but later started to reappear. TikTok said Sunday it was resto...
Jan 19, 2025
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...