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Quebec says no special recruitment measures to attract U.S. doctors, researchers
MONTREAL - Quebec doesn't plan to create any special measures to attract United States-based physicians and researchers - even as other provinces are moving to capitalize on those professionals seekin...
Apr 19, 2025
Canada has the critical minerals Donald Trump wants. So what should we do with them?
An ongoing trade war and U.S. President Donald Trump's hunger for critical minerals have brought Canada's rich mineral deposits into the spotlight, with federal and provincial politicians promising to...
Apr 19, 2025 The area where finished red potash is stored at Nutrien Allan Potash Mine in Saskatchewan before shipping to the 40 countries the company supplies. (Céline Grimard/650 CKOM)
Arizona governor vetoes bill requiring local officials to help with federal immigration efforts
PHOENIX (AP) - Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday vetoed a Republican-backed bill intended to support the Trump administration's immigration crackdown by requiring local and state officials in Ariz...
Apr 18, 2025
Judge blocks Trump administration’s from passport changes affecting transgender Americans
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of ge...
Apr 18, 2025
Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in a Louisiana immigration facility must be returned to New England no later than May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained for co-writing...
Apr 18, 2025
Singh targets Quebec voters, Carney pushes tariffs response, Poilievre promises to end plastics ban
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to strike down a key element of the Liberal government's environmental policy Friday as he and other party leaders got back on the campaign trail...
Apr 18, 2025 From left, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang)
US senator returns from El Salvador trip, says Abrego Garcia case is about far more than one man
WASHINGTON (AP) - The dispute over the wrongful deportation and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia "is not only about one man" but about Donald Trump's disregard of the American judicial system as w...
Apr 18, 2025
Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin governor's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be "attention grabbing," but it was constitutional, the ...
Apr 18, 2025
Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal ...
Apr 17, 2025
Alberta names new interim chief medical officer of health
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has announced the appointment of a new interim chief medical officer of health, days after the previous one's contract expired. Officials say Dr. Sunil Sookram is to ...
Apr 17, 2025
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