Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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Nova Scotia auditor general credits government on progress fulfilling recommendations
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia auditor general Kim Adair said Tuesday the provincial government has made substantial progress toward acting on recommendations she made from 2020 to 2022. In the first followup ...
Apr 15, 2025
New facility to house asylum seekers in Toronto with mental health services on site
TORONTO - A new facility designed to house and support refugees and asylum seekers in Toronto is set to open next month with a focus on addressing mental health issues. The Canadian Mental Health Asso...
Apr 15, 2025
Manitoba premier touts increased trade with Europe, possible second Hudson Bay port
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew expressed an openness Tuesday to a potential second port on Hudson Bay as a tool to help ramp up trade with Europe amid trade disputes with the United States. It ...
Apr 15, 2025
Nova Scotia moves forward with plan for municipalities to protect coastlines
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is offering municipalities a blueprint on how they can protect the province's 13,000 kilometres of coastline. Environment Minister Tim Halman was in Sydney, N.S., ...
Apr 15, 2025
Ottawa announces help for businesses hurt by U.S. tariffs
OTTAWA - Federal Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne has announced help for Canadian businesses affected by the trade dispute with the U.S., giving them time to adjust their supply chains. The...
Apr 15, 2025
Tariffs and Trump loom large in Ontario's agenda-setting throne speech
TORONTO - The economic uncertainty created by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs permeated Ontario's throne speech Tuesday, a ceremonial offering intended to set the new provincial government's age...
Apr 15, 2025
Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism
BOSTON (AP) - The federal government says it's freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, since the institution said Monday it won't comply with the ...
Apr 14, 2025
Alberta's Smith resists calls from NDP to pull lawyers from health probe process
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says hiring lawyers to funnel requests from the auditor general isn't meant to obstruct an investigation into multimillion-dollar health contracts -- it's abo...
Apr 14, 2025
Manitoba bills on booze, elections, housing and more delayed until fall
WINNIPEG - Some of the bills now before the Manitoba legislature will have to wait until the fall to be passed into law. The Opposition Progressive Conservatives have exercised their right under legis...
Apr 14, 2025
Manitoba ends some electricity exports to U.S., with plans to turn northward
WINNIPEG - Manitoba will soon have more energy for itself and other Canadian jurisdictions after two hydroelectric contracts with a Minnesota utility expire at the end of this month, Premier Wab Kinew...
Apr 14, 2025
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...
