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Back to SearchDanielle Smith vs. Alberta’s health care 'monopoly'
As part of Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to dismantle the provincial health authority, Alberta Health Services, the first of four new replacement agencies began operating this week.
Last month, Smith …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Why rivals turned allies and scrambled B.C. politics
The B.C. United Party has suspended its election campaign and encouraged supporters to join forces with the Conservative Party of B.C., with the aim of bringing together the right-of-centre vote ahea…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Come by Chance: What if you were living someone else’s life?
If you’ve ever been to Newfoundland, you know it’s a place where fog can envelop you so deeply, you don’t know where you’re going or where you came from. When two men, born in the same rural Newfound…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Don't look back in anger: Oasis reunite
It's hard to overstate just how big a global phenomenon Oasis were at their peak in the mid '90s, but it wasn't just the music that made them compelling — it was the rock star antics and dramatic lov…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Billionaire Telegram CEO charged in criminal investigation
On Wednesday, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was charged in France with a wide range of crimes related to illicit activity on the app. His detainment is part of an ongoing investigation by French autho…
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Abuse accusations at ‘military-style’ Ontario school
Robert Land Academy is a “military-style” school in Wellandport, Ontario. Since it opened in the 1970s, it’s used military-like structure and uniforms in a bid to mould struggling boys into confident…
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Will the Liberals’ cabinet retreat put them in fighting form?
Liberal ministers are hunkered down in Halifax right now for their annual end-of-summer cabinet retreat. It’s a chance for the party to get together and set the agenda ahead of the fall session of pa…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Canada’s public transit ‘death spiral’
Earlier this month, Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe warned the provincial and federal governments that his city was facing a public transit funding crisis. He says that at this rate, the city won’t have …
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Kamala Harris ignites Democrats at the DNC
Just one month ago, the Democrats were a deeply divided party, caught in a tailspin after President Joe Biden's disastrous performance in the first presidential debate. But in the wake of him droppin…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Drugs, abortion, taxes: Where Canadians stand on divisive issues
In politics, a “third rail” is an issue that’s so volatile, so dangerous, that politicians are afraid to touch it.
The firm Abacus Data has just come out with a new poll that looks at the “third rail…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago