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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'Perfect rat storm': Ontario cities seek ways to fight increasingly visible rats
Efforts are underway to combat growing rat populations in two of Ontario's largest cities, as the rodents that typically lurk underground become more visible thanks to a combination of construction an...
Jul 10, 2024
N.S. emergency department deaths hit six-year high, doctors point to 'bed-blocking'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Doctors in Atlantic Canada say too many beds in emergency departments are taken up by people who need non-emergency care, and the "bed-blocking" is driving high numbers of emergency...
Jul 10, 2024
Nova Scotia Liberal says province not doing enough to screen for breast cancer
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Liberal member who introduced a bill to improve breast cancer detection says the province isn't doing enough to offer cancer screening to women who need it. Rafah DiConstanzo...
Jul 09, 2024
Former federal consultant who overbilled government charged with fraud
OTTAWA - A former federal consultant has been charged with fraud for overbilling the government by $250,000. The RCMP say Clara Elaine Visser faces one charge of fraud over $5,000, following an invest...
Jul 09, 2024
Chiefs pass resolution reversing course on forensic audit of AFN
OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations passed an emergency resolution at its general assembly in Montreal Tuesday calling off a forensic audit that had been pushed by former national chief RoseAnne Ar...
Jul 09, 2024
Montreal to hold public consultations on how to better manage services for homeless
MONTREAL - The City of Montreal says it will hold public consultations on how to better integrate services for homeless people with surrounding neighbourhoods. The announcement comes as Montrealers li...
Jul 09, 2024
Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a 'hoax,' dies at 89
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, a conservative known for his strong support of defense spending and his denial that human activity is responsible for the bulk of climate change, has died....
Jul 09, 2024
Cap on for-profit centres hampering growth of $10-a-day child-care system: Ontario
TORONTO - Ontario municipalities have been forced to turn down thousands of child-care spaces in the $10-a-day system because of a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces in the province's deal w...
Jul 09, 2024
Jonathan Pedneault resigns from Green Party, leaving Elizabeth May as sole leader
OTTAWA - The man who ran alongside Green Party Leader Elizabeth May in the hopes of one day becoming the party's co-leader announced on Tuesday he is stepping away from his current role as her deputy....
Jul 09, 2024
Mayor of town where Munro lived would 'consider' amending monument honouring her
CLINTON, ONT. - For the mayor of the municipality where Alice Munro spent much of her adult life, the monument honouring her outside the local library should be left unchanged - an affirmation that fo...
Jul 09, 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
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...