Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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Jim Balsillie gives $10M to new policy organization The Canadian Shield Institute
Former BlackBerry Ltd. chief executive Jim Balsillie has donated $10 million to form a new policy organization meant to boost Canada's prosperity and resilience. The Canadian Shield Institute gets its...
Jan 16, 2025
Health Canada says food dye banned by FDA poses no human risk in Canada
TORONTO - Health Canada says a synthetic dye newly banned from the U.S. food supply does not pose a health risk to the general population in Canada. The federal agency said it won't echo a ban by the ...
Jan 16, 2025
Vancouver backyard chickens practise social distancing from wild birds amid H5N1 risk
VANCOUVER - Lumpy Eye the chicken has made plenty of friends in her East Vancouver neighbourhood over the years, said owner Duncan Martin, with passersby regularly greeting her in the yard outside the...
Jan 16, 2025
Nello Altomare, Manitoba education minister and legislature member, dies at 61
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Education Minister Nello Altomare has died after a battle with cancer. Altomare, who was 61, worked as a school principal before being elected in 2019 to represent Winnipeg's Trans...
Jan 15, 2025
Manitoba starts rolling out plastic replacements for old-style paper health cards
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has taken another step toward fulfilling its promise to replace paper provincial health cards with plastic ones. The government has started accepting online applicat...
Jan 15, 2025
Carer says rules deterred her from getting help for B.C. woman who starved to death
BURNABY, B.C. - Florence Girard's caregiver has told a British Columbia coroner's inquest she was deterred from getting help before Girard starved to death by policies about respecting the rights of p...
Jan 14, 2025
B.C. starvation death inquest hears victim's emaciated state, poor living conditions
BURNABY, B.C. - Florence Girard was so small when she died that she "looked like a child" in her casket, her sister told a British Columbia coroner's inquest into the death of the woman. Sharon Bursey...
Jan 13, 2025
Quebec measles outbreak grows to 11 cases; officials warn of thousands of exposures
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says thousands of people might have been exposed to measles at a shopping mall north of Montreal earlier this month, as an outbreak of the highly contagious disease co...
Jan 13, 2025
Florence Girard starved to death in a B.C. home-share. Her sister wants change
The sister of a British Columbia woman with Down syndrome who starved to death in a Port Coquitlam home in 2018 says she believes more people will die if systemic changes aren't made to how people wit...
Jan 12, 2025
Provinces now responsible for buying COVID-19 vaccines
TORONTO - Federal funding for COVID-19 vaccines will stop this year and the provinces and territories will be responsible for buying them, as well as determining the timing of the vaccinations, the Pu...
Jan 10, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Cancelled ferries on west coast put the short Saskatchewan commutes into perspective
Using the ferry system is a great way to enjoy BC from the water, but Sarah Mills says recent issues have had a big impa...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 7
8:30 - Today is Green Shirt Day, which falls one day after the eighth anniversary of the Humboldt Bus Crash. The anniver...
