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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Trudeau, EU leaders express faith in America and call for return to multilateralism
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the European Union's two top political leaders expressed faith in the American people Thursday ahead of a U.S. presidential election where the outcome will h...
Oct 28, 2020
COVID-19 death rates higher in neighbourhoods with more visible minorities: StatCan
OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada report says communities with the most visible minorities had the highest mortality rates during the first wave of the novel coronavirus.The report's authors say it is ...
Oct 28, 2020
Alberta union leaders launch protest website against Kenney government
EDMONTON - Labour-union leaders are urging Albertans to sign up to protest Premier Jason Kenney's government through rallies and demonstrations and, if necessary, provincewide general strikes. Gil McG...
Oct 28, 2020
Focus on infrastructure, involve community to fix reserve water issues: observers
The evacuation of a remote Ontario First Nation over the latest development in a decades-long water crisis has highlighted the need to focus on reserve water infrastructure systems as a whole and invo...
Oct 28, 2020
Long-term care deaths surged in COVID-19 first wave, Tam hopeful it won't repeat
Long-term care deaths accounted for nearly 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Canada during the first wave of the pandemic, but the country's chief public health officer thinks a repeat can be avoided a...
Oct 28, 2020
Advocates call for migrant care worker protections, document alleged pandemic abuses
TORONTO - Migrant care workers are increasingly being exploited during the COVID-19 pandemic, an advocacy group said Wednesday as it called on the federal government to bolster protections for the wor...
Oct 28, 2020
Ontario ponders end to six-month abstinence requirement for liver transplants
TORONTO - A contentious requirement that would-be liver transplant recipients stay away from alcohol for six months could be scrapped, according to a new recommendation before the agency that runs Ont...
Oct 28, 2020
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 7:30 p.m. B.C. reported 287 new cases for a total of 13,875 and two more deaths, bringing the number of people who have died to ...
Oct 28, 2020
Peru's Machu Picchu reopening Sunday after pandemic closure
MACHU PICCHU, Peru - Except workers repairing roads and signs, Peru's majestic Incan citadel of Machu Picchu is eerily empty ahead of its reopening Sunday after seven months of closure due to the coro...
Oct 27, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:21 p.m. EDT on Oct. 28, 2020: There are 225,586 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 102,814 confirmed (including 6,189 deaths, 87,638 ...
Oct 27, 2020
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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...
