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B.C. Appeal Court extends injunction against protests at Fairy Creek until September
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling and extended an injunction against old-growth logging protests until September on Vancouver Island. A panel of three ...
Jan 26, 2022
Trudeau cabinet mulls new Russia-Ukraine moves as U.S. suggests new export controls
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's cabinet retreat wraps later today with pressure mounting on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take substantive new action on addressing the Ukraine-Russia crisis. The ...
Jan 26, 2022
NDP releases report on housing and poverty, calls on government to do more
Meara Conway says she and others noticed a housing and poverty crisis in the province.That prompted the NDP Regina Elphinstone-Centre MLA to speak to different communities in the province about what t...
Jan 26, 2022
MN-S condemns actions after unauthorized use of their vehicle in trucker convoy
Metis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S) has released a statement after a video on Facebook showed a Metis Nation-Saskatchewan truck during the anti-mandate trucker convoy to Saskatoon from Prince Albert. A M...
Jan 26, 2022
‘Health human resource crisis’ affecting rural hospitals too: SUN president
The president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses says the government's plan to shift patients from urban to rural health-care facilities isn't feasible - because Omicron has changed the health-care t...
Jan 26, 2022
Conservative MPs await results of election review — but don't expect to see it all
OTTAWA - Conservative MPs meeting for a two-day retreat say they don't expect to be shown the entire review into the party's election loss. Former Alberta MP James Cumming is set to present the findin...
Jan 26, 2022
Sen. Warnock reports $9.8M raised to Herschel Walker's $5.4M
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign said Wednesday that he raised a hefty $9.8 million in the last quarter of 2021, nearly double the fundraising haul reported by the leadi...
Jan 26, 2022
Russia says US gives written response on Ukraine demands
MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian Foreign Ministry says the U.S. has delivered a written response to Moscow's security demands on Ukraine and NATO. The ministry said U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan ha...
Jan 26, 2022
Future of transit at stake, big-city mayors say in plea for federal funds
OTTAWA - Canada's big-city mayors are calling for the federal government's help to make up huge shortfalls in transit revenue that threaten to derail the nation's transit systems. The Big City Mayors'...
Jan 26, 2022
AP sources: Justice Breyer to retire; Biden to fill vacancy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources ...
Jan 26, 2022