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Party leaders focus election policy pitches on rent control, addictions treatment
OTTAWA - The NDP promised Sunday to protect tenants through a program of national rent control, while the Conservatives focused their campaign trail message on addictions treatment. NDP Leader Jagmeet...
Apr 06, 2025 NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is greeted at a campaign stop in Halifax on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi)
‘Hands off!’: Across Canada, protesters rally against Trump
MONTREAL - Protesters rallied in several cities across the country on Sunday to demonstrate against Donald Trump's threats to Canadian sovereignty, as backlash to an American president who appears ben...
Apr 06, 2025
With 8.7m birds dead, B.C. farmers assess avian flu toll, and worry about what's next
VANCOUVER - There is a window of relief for British Columbia farmers from the devastating waves of avian flu, leaving them to assess the toll of outbreaks spanning more than three years that saw milli...
Apr 06, 2025 Biosecurity warning signs are seen on a locked gate at a commercial poultry farm in Abbotsford, B.C., in November 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week
TORONTO - Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Election campaign and trade The federal election heads into its third week with the party leaders trying to pitch ...
Apr 06, 2025
'Tree police': Quebec town charges $200 fee for homeowners with treeless yards
MONTREAL - In the town of St-Amable, Que., it's plant or pay up. As of this year, the municipality located 30 kilometres northeast of Montreal is imposing an annual tax of $200 for residents who don't...
Apr 06, 2025
Federal leaders pledge family doctors, red tape cuts, skilled trades support
OTTAWA - Party leaders are making announcements across the country on Day 14 of the federal election campaign, pledging to tackle the shortage of family doctors, support skilled trades, and cut govern...
Apr 05, 2025 Liberal leader Mark Carney delivers his campaign speech during a campaign stop at Operating Engineers Local 793 Training Centre in Oakville, Ont. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Five years without answers for family of Canadian businessman held in Chinese jail
VANCOUVER - Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiaz...
Apr 05, 2025
Matthew Rankin working on films about Progressive Conservatives, Esperanto
"Universal Language" director Matthew Rankin says he's channelling his creative energy into two new films: one probing Canada's conservative legacy and another on the world's most famous made-up langu...
Apr 05, 2025
COPE, One-City, secure council seats in Vancouver's municipal byelection
VANCOUVER - Vancouver's left-of-centre parties have secured two council seats in Saturday's municipal byelection in a vote that was seen as a litmus test for Mayor Ken Sim's ABC party, which swept to ...
Apr 05, 2025
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to cut teacher-training money, for now
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts, while a lawsuit ...
Apr 04, 2025
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