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At least 47 people are still displaced after raging Newfoundland wildfires in 2025
ST. JOHN'S - Dozens of people in eastern Newfoundland are still displaced and living in temporary housing after a series of wildfires destroyed their homes more than five months ago. Marie Kennell is ...
Jan 27, 2026
Alberta judges urge respect after Smith said she wants to 'direct' them
EDMONTON - Alberta's judges are calling for respect days after Premier Danielle Smith said she wishes she could "direct" them. The province's three chief justices, in a rare public statement, say demo...
Jan 27, 2026
First Nation leader urges B.C. to maintain DRIPA as Eskay Creek mine deal is signed
VICTORIA - The president of the Tahltan Central Government said British Columbia shouldn't change its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, just as the First Nation and the provincial g...
Jan 27, 2026
Carney says Holocaust Remembrance Day a time to remember Canadian complicity
OTTAWA - Canadians must reflect on the consequences of ignorance and hatred, Prime MInister Mark Carney said on Tuesday at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa. Speaking at the event at the ...
Jan 27, 2026
Nova Scotia auditor general flags transparency problems in health-care reporting
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it disagrees with parts of an auditor general report calling on the province to be more transparent with the performance of the health-care system. In a repor...
Jan 27, 2026
Marineland has solid plan to move whales and dolphins to U.S., minister says
TORONTO - Marineland has a "solid plan" to move Canada's last remaining captive whales and dolphins to several parks in the United States, Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said Tuesday. On Monday, t...
Jan 27, 2026
'I meant what I said': Carney says he explained his Davos speech to Trump
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he told U.S. President Donald Trump personally that he meant what he said in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. C...
Jan 27, 2026
Why two skulls unearthed in B.C. could be harbingers for future archeological woes
Last June, landscapers working on a site in Kamloops, B.C., came upon a troubling discovery - two human skulls and jawbones. Police and the coroner were informed, but after an inspection that swiftly ...
Jan 27, 2026 A property in Kamloops, B.C., where landscaping discovered two skulls, which the Tkemlúps te Secwépemc First Nation has called "ancestral remains," is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout — Gordon Mohs
Hearing into Myles Gray's beating death halted for 4 weeks over obscenity resignation
VANCOUVER - A long-anticipated hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray in 2015 is being adjourned for four weeks, after it was derailed by an obscene remark and the subsequent resignation...
Jan 27, 2026
Openness advocates unimpressed by early proposals for Access to Information reform
OTTAWA - Advocates of more federal transparency are concerned a federal review of the Access to Information regime will not fix long-standing problems, and that it could even make things worse. The Tr...
Jan 27, 2026
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Sarah Mills: Doug Ford may be cutting his nose off to spite his face
A Republican congresswoman is fighting back against Ontario's US booze ban, and Sarah Mills says Premier Doug Ford may f...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, July 9
On Thursday's show, Evan discussed the new downtown arena developments, gets the latest on the Iran/U.S. conflict and Sh...
