Sarah Mills: Winter, go away!
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Tag Archives: Politics
Legal group apologizes after disinviting 'Peace by Chocolate' owner over Gaza comment
FREDERICTON - A national legal group has apologized and begun an internal review after facing widespread criticism from outside groups and within its own ranks for cancelling a speech by a prominent S...
Apr 8, 2025
Carney and Poilievre target voters in B.C., while Singh focuses on Ontario
OTTAWA - The Liberal and Conservative leaders are both in British Columbia today, where the Liberals are promising environmental conservation measures and support for seniors, while the Tories are off...
Apr 7, 2025 A composite image made from three file photographs shows, from left, Liberal Leader Mark Carney in London, Monday, March 17, 2025; NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in Montreal on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025; and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in L'Orignal, Ont., Monday, March 17, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick, Christinne Muschi, Adrian Wyld)
UBC professors taking school to court over 'political' actions by administration
VANCOUVER - A group of professors and a graduate student are taking the University of British Columbia to court to stop the school from engaging in "political activity," which they claim limits academ...
Apr 7, 2025
COVID-19 rules barring protests in 2021 were unconstitutional: Ontario's top court
TORONTO - Provincial restrictions on gatherings that prohibited peaceful protests in Ontario for several weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic were unconstitutional, the province's top court ruled Monday...
Apr 7, 2025
Alberta premier suggests Mark Carney has issues with strong conservative women
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responded Monday to Liberal Leader Mark Carney using her as a stump speech punchline, saying Carney has issues with assertive women of opposing ideologies. "I've noticed...
Apr 7, 2025
Government social services are 'significant agent' of colonialism, N.L. inquiry hears
ST. JOHN'S - A social worker with decades of experience working with the Innu in Newfoundland and Labrador has told a public inquiry that government social services that were supposed to help have in ...
Apr 7, 2025
US bishops halt partnerships with federal government on aid programs, citing funding cuts
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday that it is ending a half-century of partnerships with the federal government to serve refugees and children, saying the "heartbreaking" decisio...
Apr 7, 2025
Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. ...
Apr 7, 2025
Ontario offers $11 billion in relief to businesses stung by U.S. tariffs
TORONTO - Ontario businesses will see select provincial taxes deferred for six months, which Premier Doug Ford says will give them about $9 billion worth of relief amid global economic turmoil in the ...
Apr 7, 2025
Federal leaders enter week 3 of the election campaign
OTTAWA - With just three weeks to go until election day, Canada's federal party leaders are back on the road today. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is expected to make an announcement in Toronto today follow...
Apr 7, 2025
OPINION
Murray Wood: Halloween is becoming... civilized
Time was, Halloween was a day, and it was for kids. Murray Wood observes, with some regret, that it's becoming a season,...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, Oct. 28
On Wednesday's show, Evan talked about possible changes to The Indian Act. Plus, rethinking zoos, the dismantling of Reg...