Murray Wood: Is NDP Leader Carla Beck channeling Grant Devine?
No NDP leader would like being compared to the former Conservative premier, but Murray Wood says Carla Beck is calling f...
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Mi'kmaq students in Quebec asked not to return to New Brunswick school
A Mi'kmaq First Nation in Quebec is questioning why its students are no longer able to enter New Brunswick to go to school. About 100 students from the Listuguj First Nation cross a bridge into Campbe...
Oct 14, 2020
PM blasts Tories for push to keep WE probe alive, says government focused on COVID-19
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blasted opposition parties for continuing their effort to dig into the WE Charity issue, and says his government is instead focused on helping Canadians thro...
Oct 13, 2020
COVID-19 could cost Canadian universities millions, even billions: Statistics Canada
MONTREAL - Canadian universities could lose as much as $3.4 billion this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Statistics Canada has projected, in large part due to a decrease in the number of foreign st...
Oct 11, 2020
'Definite increase:' Experts warn against underplaying recent surge in COVID-19 cases
CALGARY - Infectious disease specialists say a recent surge in COVID-19 cases that surpasses a spike last spring must not be shrugged off as merely a byproduct of increased testing. "I think min...
Oct 08, 2020
'Friendsgiving': N.S. students create new holiday traditions inside Atlantic bubble
HALIFAX - Haneesha Relwani, third-year marketing student at Acadia University, would normally be preparing at this time of year to travel home to St. Kitts and Nevis to see family. Instead, she and ma...
Oct 08, 2020
Quebec moves more regions to maximum COVID alert as province reports 1,078 new cases
MONTREAL - Authorities moved most of the cities along the St. Lawrence River between Quebec City and Montreal to the highest COVID-19 alert level Thursday, as the government pleaded with people to sta...
Oct 08, 2020
Teen takes cocaine to high school prom; argues bag search violated her rights
TORONTO - A student found at her high school prom with cocaine in her purse has failed to have her case thrown out as a violation of her rights. In convicting the young woman, Ontario court Judge Amit...
Oct 07, 2020
Liberals, NDP block Conservative effort to have prorogation study include WE affair
OTTAWA - The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament. The government must...
Oct 06, 2020
Teachers learn that online classes for foreign students come with geopolitical snags
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - In the midst of the summer scramble to get courses online at Memorial University in St. John's, Sonja Knutson realized there were political implications to remote learning she hadn'...
Oct 04, 2020
New institute to shine spotlight on Canada's little known history of slavery
MONTREAL - Charmaine Nelson wagers that if you asked people in cities across Canada what they know about the history of slavery in this country, most would be surprised to hear that the practice even ...
Oct 02, 2020
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