Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Cities make power play for new fiscal order with eye to 2019 federal election
Jordan Press OTTAWA - Canada's cities believe they will finally land easier and direct access to federal dollars in next year's budget, or at least wrest a platform pledge from parties in the 2019 ele...
Sep 24, 2018
Ottawa area residents take stock of tornado rubble as Ford tours the ruins
OTTAWA - Word of Friday's tornado reached Laurel Wingrove and Alex Carlson at a Toronto wedding, and by Sunday morning they completed the grim pilgrimage back to the apartment they've called home for ...
Sep 23, 2018
Feds launching review of oil tanker traffic in bid to renew pipeline approval
OTTAWA - The National Energy Board has less than six months to redo its environmental review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, this time taking into account the impact of additional oil tanker...
Sep 21, 2018
New bridge collapses into river in rural Saskatchewan hours after opening
HYAS, Sask. - A rural politician in eastern Saskatchewan says he's at a loss to explain why a newly built bridge collapsed just hours after opening. Reeve Duane Hicks said the Dyck Memorial Bridge in ...
Sep 18, 2018
Ontario MP Leona Alleslev ditches Liberals, crosses floor to Tories
OTTAWA - An Ontario Liberal MP is crossing the floor of the House of Commons to join the Opposition Conservatives, saying Canada needs strong leadership on the economy and global issues. Leona Allesle...
Sep 17, 2018
Canada bans use of trans fats in food products
OTTAWA - Canada's ban on the main source of artificial trans fats is now in effect. The ban takes aim at partially hydrogenated oils, or PHOs, which are the main source of industrially produced trans ...
Sep 17, 2018
‘Enjoying the moment’ Paralyzed Bronco player makes triumphant return to the ice
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press CALGARY - Ryan Straschnitzki was all smiles Saturday following his first return to the ice in a game since being paralyzed from the chest down in an April bus cra...
Sep 16, 2018
All but one of 10 workers injured in crash between bus and truck out of hospital
Only one of the 10 pipeline workers injured when a bus collided with a semi-truck at a rural Saskatchewan intersection on Friday afternoon remains in hospital, a spokesman for the company that employs...
Sep 15, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
‘We have to move forward:’ Humboldt station hires new play-by-play voice
By Ryan McKenna, The Canadian Press HUMBOLDT, Sask. - A plan to bring hockey broadcasters in from across the country to call Humboldt Broncos games this season will not go ahead. Instead, local radio ...
Sep 15, 2018
Maverick MP Maxime Bernier launches new party as The People’s Party of Canada
Janice Dickson OTTAWA - Quebec MP Maxime Bernier is calling his new political venture The People's Party of Canada. Bernier says the name - which will be PPC for short - fits a party that represents p...
Sep 14, 2018
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Sarah Mills: There are echoes of Brexit in the Albert separation issue
A referendum over whether Alberta should separate from Canada is looming closer, and Sarah Mills says there are similari...
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Evan discusses the consequences of Alberta's separatism talk, unearths a Saskatchewan gem to visit this summer and meets...
