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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Nello Altomare, Manitoba education minister and legislature member, dies at 61
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Education Minister Nello Altomare has died after a battle with cancer. Altomare, who was 61, worked as a school principal before being elected in 2019 to represent Winnipeg's Trans...
Jan 15, 2025
'We're essential': Disability rights groups shocked by Alberta government funding cut
EDMONTON - Three Alberta disability advocacy groups say they're shocked and saddened after learning the provincial government plans to back out of their funding contracts more than a year early. "This...
Jan 15, 2025
Manitoba starts rolling out plastic replacements for old-style paper health cards
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has taken another step toward fulfilling its promise to replace paper provincial health cards with plastic ones. The government has started accepting online applicat...
Jan 15, 2025
Alberta launches ankle bracelet monitoring of 'high risk' offenders
EDMONTON - Albertans convicted or accused of a crime can now be ordered to wear ankle bracelets that electronically track their movements. Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis says it gives courts a tool...
Jan 15, 2025
First Nations group presses Ottawa to come back to the table for child welfare talks
OTTAWA - The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society is calling on the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to force the federal government back to the negotiation table on national reforms to the chi...
Jan 15, 2025
Ottawa delays meetings for unpopular plan to redistribute baby eel quotas
HALIFAX - After a barrage of criticism over a plan to transfer baby eel quotas away from longtime licence holders, the federal Fisheries Department is delaying information sessions on the pilot projec...
Jan 15, 2025
Industry groups call for help facing U.S. tariffs, offer ideas to limit damage
OTTAWA - Canadian industry groups are calling on the government to protect businesses if U.S. president-elect Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods headed to the ...
Jan 15, 2025
Concerns raised over comments referencing Muslims reposted by Tory leadership hopeful
WINNIPEG - One of the two candidates for the leadership of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives is under fire over a social media post that referred to his opponent's Muslim faith. Wally Daudrich's ...
Jan 15, 2025
Canada says it has border under control just ahead of Trump inauguration
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says Ottawa has added 60 new drones at the Canada-U.S. border and will deploy two new helicopters this week as it moves to ratchet up security. McGuinty ...
Jan 15, 2025
Energy minister makes case for U.S.-Canada energy alliance in Washington
WASHINGTON - Jonathan Wilkinson is the latest Liberal in Washington amid President-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats, and the Canadian energy minister is making the pitch for a Canada-U.S. energy an...
Jan 15, 2025
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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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...
