Murray Wood: International community needs to help in Gaza
Murray Wood says Hamas is a terrorist group that has committed acts of evil, but it's also true that the situation in Ga...
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Rising water: Quebec lender ending new mortgages in flood zones 'just the beginning'
MONTREAL - Nearly five years after floods raced through hundreds of Quebec communities and forced thousands from their homes, a major lender's decision to stop issuing new mortgages in flood zones is ...
Mar 10, 2024
West Virginia Legislature ends session with pay raises, tax cut and failure of social issue bills
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Republican-dominated state Legislature on Saturday concluded a 60-day session marked by budget disputes and controversial social issue bills that advanced but ...
Mar 10, 2024
Review finds states’ rules often put the burden of enforcing open government on private citizens
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital. She wondered what executives at the not-for-...
Mar 09, 2024
States have hodgepodge of cumbersome rules for enforcing sunshine laws
PHOENIX (AP) - A nationwide review of procedures by The Associated Press and CNHI News revealed a patchwork of complicated systems for resolving open government disputes that often put the burden of e...
Mar 09, 2024
Nationwide review finds patchwork, ‘broken’ systems for resolving open records disputes
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital. She wondered what executives at the not-for-...
Mar 09, 2024
West Virginia lawmakers OK bill drawing back one of the country's strictest child vaccination laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don't attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirem...
Mar 09, 2024
Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
The Republican senator who gave the party's response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman's sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the...
Mar 09, 2024
Trump blasts Biden over Laken Riley's death after Biden says he regrets using term 'illegal'
ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regretted using the term "illegal" during his State of the Union address to describe the suspected killer of Laken Riley, as his all-but-certai...
Mar 09, 2024
Alcohol excise tax capped at 2 per cent for two more years, Freeland announces
TORONTO - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will cap the annual alcohol excise tax increase on beer, spirits and wine at two per cent for an additional two years. The alco...
Mar 09, 2024
Biden leans into his age and effectiveness in his first post-Super Tuesday ad in battleground states
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is making no excuses for his age in the first campaign ad of a $30 million buy across battleground states after Super Tuesday, casting himself as more effective t...
Mar 09, 2024
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