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Feds detail $100 million pledged to fight food insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - The federal government will distribute $30 million to Indigenous communities and about $65 million to local organizations across Canada to support food security during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Dec 18, 2020
Feds throw support behind development of mini nuclear reactors; action plan released
TORONTO - Nuclear power is essential to meeting Canada's climate-change goals, and developing portable mini nuclear reactors is a key part of that strategy, the federal energy minister said on Friday....
Dec 18, 2020
PM says he kept hoping more money, or pressure, would help meet water-advisory goal
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he realized only recently that his government would not be able to make good on its long-held promise to lift all drinking-water advisories in First Nations...
Dec 17, 2020
UK extends salary support program to contain unemployment
LONDON - The British government on Thursday extended its salary support program by another month through to the end of April as it tries to keep a lid on unemployment as coronavirus restrictions slam ...
Dec 17, 2020
Volkswagen loses top EU court case in diesel scandal
BRUSSELS - The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Volkswagen breached the law by installing on its cars a so-called defeat device to cheat on emission tests and cannot argue it was mere...
Dec 17, 2020
Ottawa offers temporary debt relief for N.L.'s troubled Muskrat Falls project
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Ottawa is giving Newfoundland and Labrador temporary relief from debt and financing payments for the troubled Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project and appointing a top bureaucrat to ...
Dec 17, 2020
40 women in California launch suit against Montreal-based parent company of Pornhub
MONTREAL - A Montreal-based company that runs a popular porn website is being sued by 40 women in California who claim it continues to profit from pornographic videos of them that were published witho...
Dec 16, 2020
German government backs bill requiring 5G security pledge
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet approved a bill Wednesday that would require companies involved in setting up critical infrastructure such as high-speed 5G networks to guarantee tha...
Dec 16, 2020
Retail sales fell 1.1% in November, biggest drop in 7 months
NEW YORK - Americans held back on spending during the start of the holiday shopping season, a troubling sign for retailers and the state of the U.S. economy. U.S. retail sales fell a seasonally adjust...
Dec 16, 2020
US brands Vietnam, Switzerland as currency manipulators
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Treasury Department has branded Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators while putting China and nine other countries on a watch list in an annual report designed to halt...
Dec 16, 2020
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