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Manitoba NDP lays out plans to freeze hydro rates, commission bison statue
WINNIPEG - Tackling high grocery prices, freezing hydro electricity rates and commissioning a new statue reflecting Manitoba's past and present are some of the priorities for the coming year the NDP g...
Nov 19, 2024
New Alberta hospital agency to be up and running in the spring, minister says
EDMONTON - Alberta's health minister says the province's new hospital agency will be operational next spring, months later than expected. Adriana LaGrange announced Monday that hospitals now run by Al...
Nov 18, 2024
Ontario tables bill that bans supervised consumption sites near schools, daycares
TORONTO - Ontario tabled a bill Monday that aims to shutter 10 supervised consumption sites the government deems too close to schools and daycares. The bill, if passed by Premier Doug Ford's majority ...
Nov 18, 2024
Coroner's inquest underway into 2016 death of Ottawa man Abdirahman Abdi
OTTAWA - The family of an Ottawa man who died after a violent arrest by police eight years ago is hoping the coroner's inquest into his death will lead to improvements in the way police respond to cal...
Nov 18, 2024
Vancouver Island doctors set up overdose prevention sites without government blessing
Attempts by doctors to set up overdose prevention sites on hospital property in Nanaimo and Victoria were shut down Monday by the Island health authority, forcing the volunteers to move their operatio...
Nov 18, 2024
Quebec aims to boost access to abortion pills, clinics
MONTREAL - Quebec wants to improve access to abortion services as part of a new plan to counter what the government describes as an erosion of women's rights around the world. Martine Biron, Quebec's ...
Nov 18, 2024
Ottawa seeks project pitches to for new mental health fund aimed at youth
OTTAWA - Health and Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks is looking for pitches to help young Canadians who are struggling with their mental health. The federal government plans to distribute $500 million ...
Nov 18, 2024
Dix out as health minister as Eby introduces a drastically reshaped B.C. NDP cabinet
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says "kitchen table" issues in British Columbia will be the focus for his revamped, postelection cabinet that was sworn in on Monday. Eby's new cabinet, comprising 23 mini...
Nov 18, 2024
Eby says new B.C. cabinet built around 'kitchen table' issues: affordability, homes
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says the British Columbia cabinet he introduces Monday will be tasked with focusing on issues voters strongly told the government they are most concerned about: affordabil...
Nov 17, 2024
Trudeau says APEC leaders focused on how to trade with Trump administration
LIMA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's been advising world leaders to focus on common goals with Donald Trump ahead of his return to the White House, as Canada shores up its relations with cou...
Nov 16, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Accountability is a word some elected officials seem to be forgetting
From four people walking away from the RM of Sherwood council with little to no explanation to the reaction of some coun...
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8:30 - The war involving Iran has increased uncertainty in global energy markets, largely because the Strait of Hormuz h...