Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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The latest developments on the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:49 p.m. The Tim Hortons restaurant in Merritt, B.C., is the site of the latest community COVID-19 outbreak. The informat...
Oct 16, 2020
Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba look to ramp up restrictions as COVID caseload nears 200K
Several provinces are looking to ramp up COVID-19 restrictions as new hotspots crop up across the map, pushing Canada's caseload closer to the 200,000 mark. Canada's chief public health officer says t...
Oct 16, 2020
Early figures for new aid and EI provide glimpse of how post-CERB supports to be used
OTTAWA - The employment insurance system absorbed almost 1.3 million people in the last three weeks, new figures show, as a key COVID-19 benefit wound down.A breakdown of applications for the simplifi...
Oct 16, 2020
Man accused of threatening PM in Rideau Hall incident to appear in court next month
OTTAWA - A man accused of roaming while heavily armed near the residences of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Governor General this summer will be back in court next month.Corey Hurren made a bri...
Oct 16, 2020
Quebec refers case of provincial police chief for ethics probe, possible removal
QUEBEC - The Quebec government has asked for an investigation that could lead to the removal of the embattled chief of the provincial police, the province's public security minister said Friday. Marti...
Oct 16, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Rhetoric from Trump, Biden in the non-debate
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Here's how some ...
Oct 16, 2020
White House rejects Putin response to US arms control offer
WASHINGTON - The U.S. and Russia on Friday rejected each other's proposals for potentially salvaging the last remaining legal constraint on their strategic nuclear forces. President Vladimir Putin cal...
Oct 16, 2020
Belarus's exiled opposition leader holds Canada in her heart, Champagne says
OTTAWA - The exiled opposition leader of Belarus holds Canada in her heart for its support of her embattled country's pro-democracy movement, Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said F...
Oct 16, 2020
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister becomes acting president
MOSCOW - Kyrgyzstan's prime minister became the acting head of state Friday in the wake of the president's resignation amid turmoil sparked by a disputed parliamentary election. Supporters of newly ap...
Oct 16, 2020
Justices to weigh Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up President Donald Trump's policy, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people living in the U.S. illegally from the census count that will be use...
Oct 15, 2020
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Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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