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B.C. signs national pharmacare deal with Ottawa, promises to expand drug coverage
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabet...
Sep 12, 2024
Despite outcry from opposition, N.S. Tories resist tenancy enforcement unit
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's opposition parties say they can't understand why the government insists the province doesn't need an enforcement unit to help settle disputes between landlords and tenants. The...
Sep 12, 2024
Now you can not only vote in US Congressional elections, but bet on them, too
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - People began betting on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections within minutes of a judge's ruling Thursday allowing the bets - the onl...
Sep 12, 2024
Buffalo, Progressive Conservative parties rule out merger
Two Saskatchewan political parties have decided against merging to form a coalition ahead of the fall election. The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and the Buffalo Party held talks abou...
Sep 12, 2024 Progressive Conservative leader Rose Buscholl says the two parties are too far apart in their platforms to merge at this time. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
A timeline of harassment claims at Canada's spy agency
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has recently faced a series of revelations about allegations of workplace harassment and assault. Here is a timeline about the situation. July 2019: A B.C.-b...
Sep 12, 2024
Dozens of harassment, violence cases at CSIS, 8 deemed founded
VANCOUVER - When Canada's spy chief wrote a secret letter to the public safety minister last December - the week after a report emerged that two young women in the service had been sexually assaulted ...
Sep 12, 2024 When Canada's spy chief wrote a secret letter to the public safety minister last December — the week after a report emerged that two young women in the service had been sexually assaulted by a senior colleague — it came with a warning. (The Canadian Press)
Alberta First Nation suing federal government over right to clean drinking water
EDMONTON - An Alberta First Nation has revived a lawsuit it launched 10 years ago in an effort to get the federal government to recognize its human right to clean, safe water. The Ermineskin Cree Nati...
Sep 12, 2024
Nova Scotia adopts bill declaring domestic violence in the province an epidemic
HALIFAX - Following an extraordinary reversal by Premier Tim Houston, the Nova Scotia legislature on Thursday adopted a bill declaring domestic violence an epidemic in the province. The lightning fast...
Sep 12, 2024
Conservatives say they have solution for online harassment after Liberals 'failed'
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says her party will introduce a bill in the House of Commons next week to protect people from online harassment. Rempel Garner says the Liberals have ha...
Sep 12, 2024
North Dakota judge strikes down the state's abortion ban
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. In ...
Sep 12, 2024
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