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Commons rule on MP arrests not followed, Trudeau says over charges against MP
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a rule in the House of Commons that the Speaker must be informed when a member of Parliament is arrested is not being followed and should be addre...
Jun 19, 2020
Navy upholds firing of carrier captain in virus outbreak
WASHINGTON - The two senior commanders on a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier didn't "do enough, soon enough," to stem the outbreak, the top U.S. Navy officer said Friday, a stunning reversal that...
Jun 19, 2020
Charlottetown statue of Sir John A. Macdonald covered in red paint
CHARLOTTETOWN - A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Prince Edward Island was doused in red paint Friday, the latest in a series of defaced sculptures and monuments depicting historical figu...
Jun 19, 2020
Either you love Canada or you don't: Alberta premier rebukes separatists
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney is sharply rebuking those who believe the best way for Alberta to get a better deal out of Confederation is to threaten to quit it. "I am an unqualified Canadian p...
Jun 19, 2020
B.C. investigates claims of hospital racism where staff guessed alcohol level
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's premier says there's no excuse for "dehumanizing behaviour" after some emergency room staff were accused of playing a game to guess the blood-alcohol levels of Indi...
Jun 19, 2020
Feds relaxing new fuel standards in short term, but will be tougher by 2030
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is scaling back the government's planned Clean Fuel Standard in the short term to give the fossil fuel industry a bit more time to recover from the pan...
Jun 19, 2020
Work stoppage in support of Juneteenth shuts down West Coast ports
VANCOUVER - Ports along the West Coast of Canada and the United States were quiet Friday as workers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union stopped operations to support ra...
Jun 19, 2020
Agencies lack resources to answer Access to Info requests, information czar says
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has not provided the resources that departments and agencies need to answer the steeply growing number of requests for records from the public, information co...
Jun 19, 2020
Pandemic erases Quebec's projected surplus, throws province into $15B deficit
QUEBEC - Three months after projecting a surplus of nearly $3 billion, Quebec's finance minister announced Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic will blow through Quebec's financial reserves and...
Jun 19, 2020
Trump says he will renew effort to end DACA protections
PHOENIX - President Donald Trump said Friday he will renew his effort to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children. Trump denounced a Supre...
Jun 19, 2020
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