Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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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
Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
The Republican senator who gave the party's response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman's sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the...
Mar 09, 2024
Trump blasts Biden over Laken Riley's death after Biden says he regrets using term 'illegal'
ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regretted using the term "illegal" during his State of the Union address to describe the suspected killer of Laken Riley, as his all-but-certai...
Mar 09, 2024
Alcohol excise tax capped at 2 per cent for two more years, Freeland announces
TORONTO - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will cap the annual alcohol excise tax increase on beer, spirits and wine at two per cent for an additional two years. The alco...
Mar 09, 2024
Biden leans into his age and effectiveness in his first post-Super Tuesday ad in battleground states
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is making no excuses for his age in the first campaign ad of a $30 million buy across battleground states after Super Tuesday, casting himself as more effective t...
Mar 09, 2024
With AI, workplace surveillance has 'skyrocketed'-leaving Canadian laws behind
OTTAWA - Technology that tracks your location at work and the time you're spending in the bathroom. A program that takes random screenshots of your laptop screen. A monitoring system that detects your...
Mar 09, 2024
Officers weren't told of threats to harm police, says RCMP 'Freedom Convoy' report
OTTAWA - An internal RCMP review of the force's response to "Freedom Convoy" protests found that some officers at the scene of an Alberta blockade were unaware of threats to harm police until after th...
Mar 09, 2024
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...
