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Nova Scotia rates of poverty, food insecurity in 2022 worst among all provinces
HALIFAX - New data from Statistics Canada show that Nova Scotia's rates of poverty and food insecurity in 2022 were the highest of any province - and the head of the province's largest network of food...
Apr 30, 2024
'All options still on the table' for limiting plastics production: Guilbeault
OTTAWA - All options to eliminate plastic waste are still on the table in negotiations for a global plastic treaty, including putting legislated caps on how much plastic the world produces in the firs...
Apr 30, 2024
Supreme Court leaves in place a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users' ages
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. The justices rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Fre...
Apr 30, 2024
Spy watchdog warns of 'significant legal risks' if cyberops breach international law
OTTAWA - Canada's electronic spy agency needs to clearly spell out how its operations in cyberspace comply with international law, says a new watchdog report. The National Security and Intelligence Re...
Apr 30, 2024
Democrats say they will save Speaker Mike Johnson's job if Republicans try to oust him
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats will vote to save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson's job should some of his fellow Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, Democratic leaders said T...
Apr 30, 2024
Capital gains tax changes not included in Freeland's proposed budget legislation
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland intends to ask Parliament to approve proposed changes to capital gains taxation in a stand-alone bill - a move that will force the federal Conservatives to ...
Apr 30, 2024
Ontario to begin buying land to build Highway 413, construction slated for next year
Ontario plans to begin buying up land to build a controversial highway in the Toronto area that will pave over prime farmland, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday. The province will be meeting with landown...
Apr 30, 2024
FCC fines wireless carriers for sharing user locations without consent
The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers' location data without...
Apr 30, 2024
Environment commissioner says liability for northern contaminated sites growing
Ottawa's slow progress to remediate contaminated sites in the North is leaving Indigenous Peoples at risk and raising the government's own financial liability for the polluted areas, environment commi...
Apr 30, 2024
Federal government must track progress toward zero plastic waste goal: audit report
OTTAWA - Most federal programs aimed at reducing plastic waste are working, but the government isn't measuring its progress toward its overall goal of zero plastic waste by 2030, according to a new au...
Apr 30, 2024
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