Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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N.W.T. ignored in Alberta monitoring suspension despite agreement: leaked emails
EDMONTON - Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, despite a legally binding agreement to do so. The omission is revealed in a se...
Jul 13, 2020
Polish president wins 2nd term after bitter campaign
WARSAW, Poland - Polish President Andrzej Duda declared victory Monday in a runoff election in which he narrowly won a second five-year term, acknowledging the campaign he ran was often too harsh as h...
Jul 13, 2020
Iran report blaming mistakes for military's downing of PS752 dismissed
OTTAWA - A representative of Canadian families and loved ones killed in Iran's shootdown of a Ukrainian airliner in January says a new report blaming a misaligned missile battery and other mistak...
Jul 12, 2020
Foreign students in NC fear online classes mean deportation
RALEIGH, N.C. - Although most North Carolina universities - including Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State - still plan to bring students back to campus for some in-person classes starting next month,...
Jul 12, 2020
Conservatives call for Trudeau to testify at committee on WE Charity deal
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to testify before a parliamentary committee about his government's controversial decision to enlist WE Charity to administer a $90...
Jul 12, 2020
Canada's largest Indigenous police force has never shot anyone dead
TORONTO - In its 26 years of existence, officers with Canada's largest Indigenous police force have never shot and killed anyone and no officer has died in the line of duty, despite a grinding lack of...
Jul 12, 2020
Embattled Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg has history of controversy
WINNIPEG - Wanda Robson smiled wide as she clutched a $10 bill with a familiar face on the side - her sister, Viola Desmond, a Black woman and civil rights pioneer. It was a momentous day in fro...
Jul 12, 2020
Genetic detectives begin work to trace spread of COVID-19 in Canada
OTTAWA - For the last four months, Canada’s public health experts have been racing to stop the spread of COVID-19 by trying to figure out how everyone is getting it, and whom they may have given...
Jul 12, 2020
Genetic detectives begin work to trace spread of COVID-19 in Canada
OTTAWA - Canada's public health experts have been racing to stop the spread of COVID-19 by trying to figure out how everyone is getting it, and whom they might have given it to. But even the best effo...
Jul 12, 2020
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by ...
Jul 11, 2020
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8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...
