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  • GOP's Larry Elder looks for shock win in California recall

    August 30, 2021 - 1:43 PM

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s next governor could be a Black conservative who would erase state vaccine and mask mandates, is critical of gun control, disputes the notion of systemic racism in America and opposes the minimum wage because he says it tramples the free market.

  • Federal judge blocks Indiana ‘abortion reversal’ law

    June 30, 2021 - 10:32 AM

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked an Indiana law that would require doctors to tell women undergoing drug-induced abortions about a disputed treatment for potentially stopping the abortion process.

  • Canada has shown 'uneven progress' on gender equality, says new report

    October 28, 2019 - 2:02 PM

    OTTAWA - Canada will be years past celebrating its tricentennial before the country can close the economic gap between men and women if things keep improving at the glacial pace they are now, a new report says.

  • Tax bill clears Senate in big boost for Trump, GOP

    December 02, 2017 - 3:30 PM

    WASHINGTON - Republicans muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate early Saturday, taking a big step toward giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative triumph after months of false starts and frustration on other fronts.

  • Canada to bring feminism to NAFTA talks in seeking new chapter on gender

    August 14, 2017 - 2:55 PM

    OTTAWA - The Liberal government wants to bring its feminism to the North American Free Trade Agreement, building on an agreement between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump to support women entrepreneurs to get gender rights in the deal.

  • States push to protect birth control despite failed GOP bill

    March 28, 2017 - 1:47 PM

    CARSON CITY, Nev. - Even with the Republican failure to repeal Barack Obama's health care law, Democratic lawmakers in some states are pressing ahead with efforts to protect birth control access, Planned Parenthood funding and abortion coverage in case they are jeopardized in the future.

  • Some of what's new in Justin Trudeau's marching orders to his cabinet ministers

    November 13, 2015 - 2:27 PM

    OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his ministers their formal marching orders on Friday. Much of what their so-called mandate letters contained came straight from the Liberal campaign platform, but there were some fresh details.

  • Arizona abortion restrictions to remain blocked, federal panel decides

    June 03, 2014 - 10:37 AM

    SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's strictest rules on the use of abortion medication will continue to be blocked while a lawsuit against them plays out in court.

  • House passes $1.1T election-year budget with scant tea party protests as Senate waits its turn

    January 15, 2014 - 8:02 PM

    WASHINGTON - A $1.1 trillion spending bill for operating the government until just before next fall's election steamed through the battle-weary House on Wednesday over tepid protests from tea party conservatives, driven by a bipartisan desire to restore painful cuts in domestic and defence programs and show disaffected voters that Congress can do its job.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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