Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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B.C. Conservative Leader Rustad vows to 'unleash potential' for Indigenous prosperity
The federal government has been "absent" and failing to live up to commitments to First Nations on housing and clean water, and a B.C. Conservative government would fix the problems, then send Ottawa ...
Sep 30, 2024
Ceremonies across Canada mark Truth and Reconciliation Day
The smell of sage and sweetgrass floated in the air Monday over a mostly sombre ceremony in Ottawa to reflect on the legacy of residential schools and remember those who survived - and the thousands w...
Sep 30, 2024
Ontario MPP seeks paid provincial holiday for Truth and Reconciliation day
TORONTO - Ontario's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation dec...
Sep 30, 2024
Eby says more than 90 per cent of British Columbians to benefit from tax cut promise
SURREY, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby, speaking before his largest crowd of the provincial election campaign, says he's making a tax relief election promise that will benefit more than 90 per c...
Sep 29, 2024
California governor vetoes bill to create first-in-nation AI safety measures
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence models Sunday. The decision is...
Sep 29, 2024
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence models Sunday. The decision is...
Sep 29, 2024
Small Quebec towns debate reducing council size amid recruitment challenges
MONTREAL - Some small Quebec municipalities are considering reducing the size of their city councils due to the challenges of recruiting candidates to run for office. Quebec recently adopted a rule al...
Sep 29, 2024
First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders say work lays ahead on road to reconciliation
OTTAWA - The Liberal party of today is not quite the same as the one elected in 2015 promising to foster new paths and nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous Peoples, the leaders of the three ...
Sep 29, 2024 Around 200 students from northern Saskatchewan came down to the First Nations University of Canada for the annual Smudge Walk in Regina on Sept. 27, 2024. (Abby Zieverink/980 CJME)
Rustad wants B.C. Indigenous rights law repealed. Chief sees that as 40-year setback
British Columbia saw a rare unanimous vote in its legislature in October 2019, when members passed a law adopting the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out stand...
Sep 29, 2024
Carla Beck: Social worker, school trustee seeking job as next Saskatchewan premier
LANG, SASK. - Carla Beck steps out of her SUV with her two dogs and starts walking beside a lake near her hometown, the spot where she learned to feed cows, swing a bat and not keep her mouth shut. Re...
Sep 29, 2024 Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck stands beside her dog, Piper, on a trail near Lang, Sask., Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeremy Simes)
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Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...