Health care and mental-health services priorities for budget: Manitoba government
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is promising more tax cuts in its budget even as the province faces ongoing deficits and a health-care system struggling to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Cameron Friesen says the 2022-23 budget is ...
NATO to bolster ranks, help Ukraine counter chemical attack
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO leaders are set to agree to station more forces in Eastern Europe to deter Russia from invading any member of their ranks and to send equipment to Ukraine to help it defend against chemical or biological
WikiLeaks’ Assange weds fiancée in London prison ceremony
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has wed his fiancée at a small ceremony in the London prison where he is held. Assange, 50, has been held in
2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for two men on South Carolina's death row have asked the state's Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge a new law allowing executions by firing squad.
Takeaways: Joy, tears, culture wars dominate Jackson hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who is being scrutinized. Senators are also being watched at this milestone moment in history considering the first Black woman for the high court.
US Capitol reopening for limited public tours after 2 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Capitol will reopen to the public on Monday for guided tours for limited groups of people who have registered in advance, congressional officials said, two years after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the cessation of such
NDP expects phased-in approach to national pharmacare promise in deal with Liberals
OTTAWA — NDP health critic Don Davies says he expects the Liberal government to fulfil its renewed promise to deliver national pharmacare, but perhaps not all at once. The Liberals have promised in their new confidence and supply agreement with the
Probe: State House speaker, others get grand jury subpoenas
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Republican House speaker says he and other state lawmakers have been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in an intensifying federal investigation, following a former lawmaker's guilty plea to wire fraud ...
Nova Scotia releases largest-ever capital budget at over $1.5 billion
HALIFAX — Spending for hospitals, schools and roads in Nova Scotia is poised to hit its highest level at $1.5 billion for the 2022-23 fiscal year. The capital budget released Wednesday by Finance Minister Allan MacMaster has the province's building pla...
Group forms to support Indigenous-led searches of residential school burial sites
WINNIPEG — Indigenous organizations in Manitoba, officials from the city of Winnipeg and the provincial and federal governments are forming a council to support searches for burial sites of children who attended residential schools. Reconciliation Min...
