Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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Canada's NATO defence spending pledge amounts to $60 billion a year by 2032: minister
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Defence Minister Bill Blair is defending Canada's spending promise at the NATO leaders' summit in Washington, D.C., as critics throw cold water on the government's new pledge to me...
Jul 12, 2024
Year-end financial returns show New Brunswick Liberals beat Tories in donations
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Liberals ended 2023 with a bigger war chest than the Progressive Conservatives, with a provincial election months away. Year-end reports filed this week by the parties to...
Jul 12, 2024
Court to hear Saskatchewan's case to stop collection of carbon levy money
VANCOUVER - Federal Court in Vancouver is to hear a case today from the Saskatchewan government asking for an injunction to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from collecting millions in carbon levy money...
Jul 12, 2024
Jewish advocates say details around investigation into human-rights chief murky
OTTAWA - Three weeks after the federal Liberals promised to do a "formal, independent review" of the appointment of Canada's new human-rights commissioner, the government hasn't provided any details a...
Jul 12, 2024
N.S. spent $1.2. million on controversial wine subsidy program from January to March
HALIFAX - After months of silence, the Nova Scotia government finally revealed the total figure spent on a wine subsidy program that caused many of the province's winemakers to feel sour. Finance Mini...
Jul 12, 2024
Payouts for the many over the few: employee ownership trusts take shape in Canada
Three times a year, the 600-or-so employees of Friesens Corp. gather in front of the printing house to accept envelopes, each one holding a cheque for the workers' share of company profits. They all g...
Jul 12, 2024
Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush money conviction after Supreme Court immunity ruling
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's lawyers are urging the judge in his New York hush money case to overturn his conviction and dismiss the case in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presiden...
Jul 11, 2024
Mark Carney would be 'outstanding' addition to federal politics, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Mark Carney would be an "outstanding addition" to federal politics, the prime minister said Thursday, in response to speculation that he is trying to recruit the former Bank of Canada governo...
Jul 11, 2024
Canada Revenue Agency order to seize Sask. money unusual: experts
REGINA - Legal experts say the federal government has taken an extraordinary step in trying to take $28 million from Saskatchewan's bank account for not paying carbon levy money, a case that is to be ...
Jul 11, 2024
New York's top court allows 'equal rights' amendment to appear on November ballot
A proposed amendment to New York's constitution to bar discrimination over "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" will appear on the ballot this November, the state's high court ruled Thursday. Th...
Jul 11, 2024
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
On Thursday's show, Evan welcomes a trio of teens to discuss banning social media for children and teenagers, discusses ...