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Teamsters take down picket lines at CN, stoppage continues at CPKC
OTTAWA - The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says it has taken down picket lines at Canadian National Railway Co. and its workers will begin returning to work on Friday. However, the union said the w...
Aug 23, 2024
National security agencies should detail how they're using AI: federal advisory body
OTTAWA - A federal advisory body is calling on Canada's security agencies to publish detailed descriptions of their current and intended uses of artificial intelligence systems and software applicatio...
Aug 23, 2024
Kamala Harris at DNC summons Americans to reject divisions and defeat threat of Trump's candidacy
CHICAGO (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris called on Americans to join her to "chart a new way forward" as she accepted the Democratic nomination on Thursday, arguing her personal story and prosecuto...
Aug 22, 2024
B.C. addictions minister allowed to respond to decriminalization court challenge
VANCOUVER - Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province's decision to d...
Aug 22, 2024
Now is not time to balance B.C.'s budget, says Conroy as province posts $5B deficit
VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister says now is not the time to balance the province's budget. Katrine Conroy says the New Democratic government does plan for a balanced budget "in the futu...
Aug 22, 2024
A look at recent major railway strikes Canada
Shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt Thursday after months of increasingly bitter negotiations, threatening to upend supply chains still re...
Aug 22, 2024
Manitoba government says free prescription birth control will start in October
WINNIPEG - Manitobans will have access to free prescription birth control starting Oct. 1. The NDP government says that's the date it will fulfil a promise it made in last year's election campaign. Th...
Aug 22, 2024
Liberals move to force binding arbitration, return to work in railway labour dispute
OTTAWA - Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said Thursday the federal government has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to end the lockout at the country's two biggest rail companies, ordering ...
Aug 22, 2024
Arkansas Supreme Court upholds rejection of abortion rights petitions, blocking ballot measure
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state's rejection of signature petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative on Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before vot...
Aug 22, 2024
'A president who leads and listens:' Kamala Harris accepts Democratic nomination
CHICAGO - Kamala Harris promised to be a president for all Americans as she closed out the Democratic National Convention where a former United States ambassador to Canada sounded the alarm that a sec...
Aug 22, 2024
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