Murray Wood: Conservative floor crossers could hand Mark Carney a majority government
Murray Wood says Prime Minister Mark Carney is happily accepting floor crossers from the Conservatives, but maybe it's t...
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Biden's big speech showed his uneasy approach to abortion, an issue bound to be key in the campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) - Reproductive freedom took center stage during Biden's State of the Union address, but abortion rights advocates had mixed reactions, raising concerns about the president trying to ca...
Mar 10, 2024
The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw - even the naked - and may have secrets to tell
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, the president of the United States stripped naked on a rock by the river, plunged in and saw a dead man float to the surface. We know t...
Mar 10, 2024
Katie Porter's star dims in failed US Senate bid, leaving the Californian facing an uncertain future
LOS ANGELES (AP) - U.S. Rep. Katie Porter became a social media celebrity by brandishing a white board at congressional hearings to dissect CEOs and break down complex figures into assaults on corpora...
Mar 10, 2024
Manitoba's NDP government is advertising tax cuts passed by Tories
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government has launched advertisements touting income tax cuts that were put forward and passed by the former Progressive Conservative government. The ads, which appear on so...
Mar 10, 2024
Rising water: Quebec lender ending new mortgages in flood zones 'just the beginning'
MONTREAL - Nearly five years after floods raced through hundreds of Quebec communities and forced thousands from their homes, a major lender's decision to stop issuing new mortgages in flood zones is ...
Mar 10, 2024
West Virginia Legislature ends session with pay raises, tax cut and failure of social issue bills
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Republican-dominated state Legislature on Saturday concluded a 60-day session marked by budget disputes and controversial social issue bills that advanced but ...
Mar 10, 2024
Review finds states’ rules often put the burden of enforcing open government on private citizens
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital. She wondered what executives at the not-for-...
Mar 09, 2024
States have hodgepodge of cumbersome rules for enforcing sunshine laws
PHOENIX (AP) - A nationwide review of procedures by The Associated Press and CNHI News revealed a patchwork of complicated systems for resolving open government disputes that often put the burden of e...
Mar 09, 2024
Nationwide review finds patchwork, ‘broken’ systems for resolving open records disputes
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital. She wondered what executives at the not-for-...
Mar 09, 2024
West Virginia lawmakers OK bill drawing back one of the country's strictest child vaccination laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don't attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirem...
Mar 09, 2024
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