Murray Wood: The Saskatchewan farmer who heard a cry and reacted heroically
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Green Party expects eight candidates on final leadership ballot
OTTAWA - Green Party officials said Monday they anticipate eight people will be able to hit Tuesday's deadline to submit another $20,000 and make it onto the ballot for the party's leadership vote in ...
Aug 31, 2020
Calls mount, frustration grows over Trudeau's promise to help Hong Kong
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is facing increasingly frustrated and worried calls to help people leave Hong Kong for Canada as China continues to crack down on pro-democracy activists i...
Aug 31, 2020
Kanye West stays on Iowa ballot as challenges dismissed
Rapper Kanye West will remain on the Iowa ballot as a candidate for president after a state panel on Monday rejected two challenges to his candidacy. The Iowa Candidate Nomination Objection Panel unan...
Aug 31, 2020
Feds 'looking into' alleged bullying by RCMP employee facing security charges
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Public Safety Minister Bill Blair is "looking into" allegations the RCMP brushed off complaints about a senior director who was later arrested on natio...
Aug 31, 2020
Trudeau calls out vandals who toppled Montreal's Macdonald statue
MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he's "profoundly disappointed" in the vandals who toppled and defaced a Montreal statue of the first prime minister of Canada, as Quebec'...
Aug 31, 2020
Appeals court keeps Flynn case alive, won't order dismissal
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court in Washington declined to order the dismissal of the Michael Flynn prosecution, permitting a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department's request to dismiss its ca...
Aug 31, 2020
N.B. party leaders promise action to stop use of industrial herbicide
FREDERICTON - The Liberals and Greens promised to eliminate the use of industrial herbicide on public land across the province Monday, as New Brunswick's election campaign entered its final two weeks....
Aug 31, 2020
Canada signs deal with Novovax to get 76 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - The federal government has a deal with a third vaccine developer to get access to an experimental COVID-19 vaccine as early as next spring. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Montreal this m...
Aug 31, 2020 A photo provided by the Saskatchewan Government on coronavirus vaccine development. (Government of Saskatchewan)
Business rent-aid program to fall well short of budget, PBO projects
OTTAWA - A federal spending watchdog says a program aiming to providing rent relief to small and medium-sized businesses will cost just under $1 billion this fiscal year. The report this morning from ...
Aug 31, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
Nova Scotia candidate's withdrawal shrinks Green Party leadership field
OTTAWA - The field of contenders vying to become leader of the federal Green Party just got a little smaller. Nova Scotia computer scientist and veteran Judy Green is withdrawing from the race and thr...
Aug 30, 2020
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