Murray Wood: Isn't it time for more 'we' than 'oui' in Rideau Hall?
Louise Arbour brings much more than French skills to her role as the king's representative, but she also has taken contr...
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Trudeau touts vaccine deals as Canada notches new daily record in COVID-19 cases
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to offer Canadians modest hope about progress in testing and vaccine development after Canada notched an all-time high of new COVID-19 cases in a day. Trudeau t...
Oct 23, 2020
Companies warn Tory motion could deter domestic production of PPE
OTTAWA - Canadian companies that answered the government's call to produce ventilators and other desperately needed equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic say they're worried opposition MPs are now de...
Oct 23, 2020
American voters living in Canada increasingly being counted in presidential race
OTTAWA - Soon Jenny Wiebe will drive from her Fredericton home to the Maine town where she was born, to retrieve the mail-in ballot her parents are holding for her. The 55-year-old dual Canadian-U. S....
Oct 23, 2020
Canada, Alberta agree on caribou protection deal that gives them years to take action
EDMONTON - Canada and Alberta have signed a deal on caribou protection that gives them years to take action but could allow energy drilling to resume on some ranges. "I'm very concerned that developme...
Oct 23, 2020
For Mi'kmaq fishers, dreams of a peaceful harvest on N.S. waters repeatedly dashed
HALIFAX - Mi'kmaw fisherman Robert Syliboy says he dreams of peacefully trapping lobster off the shores of southwestern Nova Scotia. But the hopes of the 27-year-old from the Sipekne'katik First Natio...
Oct 23, 2020
Federal study details workers hit hardest by tax, benefit system for extra earnings
OTTAWA - Newly released documents show Finance Department officials calculated that workers near the bottom of the income ladder are dinged hardest for extra earnings than anybody else, including thos...
Oct 23, 2020
Fiasco over pope's cut civil union quote intensifies impact
ROME - The world premiere of a documentary on Pope Francis was supposed to have been a bright spot for a papacy locked down by a pandemic and besieged by a corruption scandal, recalling Francis' glory...
Oct 23, 2020
Bellegarde wants Brenda Lucki out as head of RCMP
OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations has "lost confidence" in RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki after months of unrest, National Chief Perry Bellegarde said Friday as he called for her resignation. "Th...
Oct 23, 2020
Majority of international travellers since March deemed 'essential', avoid quarantine
OTTAWA - More than 4.6 million people have arrived in Canada since the border closed last March but fewer than one-quarter of them were ordered to quarantine - the rest were deemed "essential" travell...
Oct 23, 2020
Nunavut politicians vote to remove minister from cabinet over social media post
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's legislature members have voted former housing and Nunavut Arctic College minister Patterk Netser out of cabinet over a post he made on social media.Premier Joe Savikataaq ...
Oct 23, 2020
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Sarah Mills: Betty Nippi-Albright did the honourable thing by choosing to sit as independent
Sarah Mills says Betty Nippi-Albright's departure from the Sask. NDP has not forced a byelection, nor has she sought dea...
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Evan speaks with Shaun Semple after Regina City Council approved the Brandt/REAL District purchase deal on Wednesday, th...
