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Manitoba's promised plastic health cards pushed to January: premier
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government's plan to replace paper health cards with more durable and modern plastic ones is running a bit behind schedule. Premier Wab Kinew has said on a few occasions, inclu...
Dec 23, 2024
Green Party's Elizabeth May reflects on unprecedented week in Canadian politics
OTTAWA - Elizabeth May says in all her years on Parliament Hill she has never seen anything like the last week in Canadian politics. In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, May - now in her 1...
Dec 23, 2024
Percentage of early childhood educators in Ontario child care declining, despite goal
TORONTO - The percentage of staff in Ontario child-care centres who are registered early childhood educators has been declining over the past few years, moving the province further away from one of it...
Dec 23, 2024
Canada's efforts to combat abuse in sports saw slow progress in 2024
CALGARY - Steps to make Canadian sports safer were made in 2024, but to what end? A national commission began cross-country public consultations, an online registry of people sanctioned or under inves...
Dec 22, 2024
Drug superlabs leave a toxic mess. Some say B.C.'s cleanup rules are a mess, too
When Dean May's team of cleaners entered the home, dressed head to toe in protective suits, thick green dust covered every surface. "We literally left footprints when we were walking in the house," he...
Dec 22, 2024
Israeli expert seeks new crime against humanity for waging violence against families
OTTAWA - The Israeli expert leading a civilian commission into sexual violence by Hamas is calling for global bodies to recognize "a new crime against humanity" involving violence targeted at families...
Dec 22, 2024
RCMP informant's decades of spying on social reformers are chronicled in new book
OTTAWA - As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books. But he also had tasks his party comrad...
Dec 22, 2024
Advocates cry foul as Alberta replaces funding model for anti-homelessness agencies
EDMONTON - A former president of the Calgary Homeless Foundation says he is deeply concerned by the Alberta government's recent decision to overhaul the funding scheme for organizations providing serv...
Dec 21, 2024
Biden signs bill that averts government shutdown and brings a close to days of Washington upheaval
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averts a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan jus...
Dec 21, 2024
Biden signs bill that averts government shutdown and brings a close to days of Washington upheaval
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed legislation that averts a government shutdown heading into Christmas, bringing a final close to days of upheaval in Washington after Congress p...
Dec 21, 2024
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