Murray Wood: Federal gun initiatives take aim at small business
Darryl Schemenauer is closing down his Regina gun store after 35 years, and he puts the blame squarely on the federal Li...
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Recognizing racial profiling key to 'historic' Montreal class-action judgment: lawyer
MONTREAL - A Montreal lawyer who co-piloted a successful class-action lawsuit against the City of Montreal for racial profiling by police says what's most important is not the financial compensation b...
Sep 04, 2024
Calgary can't afford Green Line transit project as Alberta to withhold funding: mayor
CALGARY - Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek says the city can no longer afford its long-sought Green Line light rail transit project after the Alberta government announced it's pulling funding from the plan ...
Sep 04, 2024
Alberta government reaches agreement with legal aid lawyers, law society
EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it has signed a new five-year governance agreement with the province's legal aid lawyers. It says the deal with Legal Aid Alberta and the Law Society of Alberta ...
Sep 04, 2024
Manitoba to look at GPS options at landfills following slayings of 4 Indigenous women
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is looking at ways to increase monitoring and surveillance of garbage trucks and landfills following the slayings of four Indigenous women whose remains were dumped ...
Sep 04, 2024
Food for thought: N.B. Liberals promise free, low-cost food in schools if elected
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Liberals are promising to provide free or low-cost food at schools if they're elected this fall. Liberal Leader Susan Holt told reporters Wednesday her government would e...
Sep 04, 2024
The NDP-Liberal deal is done. What happens now?
OTTAWA - The NDP has pulled out of a confidence and supply agreement with the Liberals. What happens now? In March 2022, the Liberals and NDP penned a deal that would keep the minority government led ...
Sep 04, 2024
Liberals sign school food deal with Newfoundland and Labrador
OTTAWA - Newfoundland and Labrador is the first province to sign a deal with the federal Liberals to expand school food programs across the province, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday....
Sep 04, 2024
US accuses Russia of using state media to spread disinformation before the November election
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration announced wide-ranging actions Wednesday meant to call out Russian influence in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, unsealing criminal charges against t...
Sep 04, 2024
Veteran BC United legislators Mike Bernier and Tom Shypitka to run as Independents
A pair of BC United legislators have announced they are running as Independents in next month's provincial election after the collapse of the Official Opposition's campaign last week. Both Mike Bernie...
Sep 04, 2024
Quebec 'superminister' Pierre Fitzgibbon says drop in motivation is why he's leaving
MONTREAL - Quebec "superminister" Pierre Fitzgibbon says he is leaving office because he lost motivation to do the job - and that it was the premier who pushed him out the door months earlier than pla...
Sep 04, 2024
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Sarah Mills: The season of the zipper merge has returned
It sometimes feels like leaders in our cities and towns don't plan for construction very well, but Sarah Mills says the ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, April 20
On Monday's show, Evan hears concerns about the FSIN's transparency after its general assembly last week, discusses how ...