Sarah Mills: Figuring out what went wrong for NDP isn't a difficult task
Sarah Mills says it shouldn't be too hard for the federal NDP to figure out why it did so poorly in the spring election....
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B.C. drug deaths reach 192 in March; Ottawa approves request to prohibit public use
VICTORIA - On the same day the British Columbia government's approach to the overdose crisis faces a major shift, the provincial coroner announced another 192 people were killed by illicit drugs in Ma...
May 07, 2024
Ottawa approves British Columbia's request to make public drug use illegal again
OTTAWA - Public drug use became illegal in British Columbia once again on Tuesday, after the federal government granted the province's request to scale back its drug decriminalization pilot. The chang...
May 07, 2024
Liberal government not immune from auto thefts: 48 vehicles stolen in recent years
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are trying to crack down on a scourge of auto thefts across the country, even as the government is struggling to keep its own vehicles away from thieves, new data show. D...
May 07, 2024
Questions raised about plan to create Nova Scotia corps of emergency volunteers
HALIFAX - A former fire chief says he has concerns about Nova Scotia's plan to create a volunteer corps of civilians to provide help during major emergencies. Terry Canning, a director with the Fire S...
May 07, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Speaker Johnson search for offramp as vote on his ouster simmers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene met for a second day at the Capitol on Tuesday, political adversaries trying to engineer an off-ramp fr...
May 07, 2024
Encampment in support of Palestinians sets up on the University of Manitoba campus
WINNIPEG - Students at the University of Manitoba have started a protest encampment on a grassy open area on the campus in south Winnipeg. There were about two dozen people on hand at the start of a p...
May 07, 2024
Liberal foreign interference bill includes some 'good tools' for RCMP: commissioner
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Arif Virani tried to play down suggestions Tuesday that a proposed new sabotage offence would allow authorities to stifle dissent by dismantling rail blockades or breaking up...
May 07, 2024
New York judge blocks amendment barring discrimination on gender identity and pregnancy outcomes
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A proposed amendment to New York's constitution barring discrimination based on "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" cannot appear on the state ballot in November because leg...
May 07, 2024
Alberta ombudsman says rules for developmental disabilities program unfair
EDMONTON - An Alberta man with autism has been unfairly denied the support he needs by a government program that relies too heavily on intelligence tests, the province's ombudsman has concluded. "The ...
May 07, 2024
Official languages commissioner sees complaints drop by more than half in past year
OTTAWA - The number of complaints from Canadians who say their language rights weren't respected dropped by more than half last year, but the official languages commissioner says it's too early to say...
May 07, 2024
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Murray Wood: Marking 50 years of the metric system... kind of
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