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NDP uses BC United research to mount attacks on 'crackpot' B.C. Conservatives
VICTORIA - Almost 200 pages of research on the B.C. Conservative Party, which sources within BC United confirm were compiled by their party before it dropped out of the British Columbia election campa...
Sep 28, 2024
Critics see drug debate tainted by politicization in B.C. election campaign
VANCOUVER - When NDP Leader David Eby announced this month that the province would open "secure facilities" to provide involuntary care for people with severe drug addiction or mental health problems,...
Sep 28, 2024
N.B. election promise tracker: HST cuts, community care clinics, rent caps
Voters in New Brunswick are scheduled to go to the polls on Oct. 21. Here's a look at some of the promises announced by the three major parties: Progressive Conservatives: - Cut the harmonized sales t...
Sep 27, 2024
New Brunswick election: Tories accuse Liberals of plagiarizing their platform
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is accusing the Liberals of plagiarizing portions of his party's election platform. Higgs made the accusation Friday during a c...
Sep 27, 2024
B.C. company sanctioned by U.S. Treasury Department wants Health Canada licences back
VANCOUVER - A chemical firm based in Port Coquitlam, B.C., claims Health Canada wrongfully cancelled its licences to make natural health products after being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department...
Sep 27, 2024
Manitoba government says it's on track to hiring 1,000 new health-care workers
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government is more than halfway toward its goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers since taking office nearly a year ago, with some groups representing health-care staff app...
Sep 26, 2024
New Brunswick election: Conservatives promise financial literacy curriculum
FREDERICTON - The leader of New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives is promising to make financial literacy part of the school curriculum if his party wins the Oct. 21 election Blaine Higgs campaign...
Sep 26, 2024
Electronic vote counters could bring B.C. election result an hour after polls close
British Columbians could find out who wins the provincial election on Oct. 19 in about the same time it took to start counting ballots in previous votes. Andrew Watson, a spokesman for Elections BC, s...
Sep 26, 2024
Party leaders of different stripes seem to agree on involuntary addiction treatment
FREDERICTON - As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of British Columbia and New Brunswick appear to agree on one controversial issue: involuntary care for those with severe drug addictio...
Sep 26, 2024
'Life is hard': Living under a 29-year boil-water advisory in an Ontario First Nation
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. - Every other day, Derek Moonias drives 15 minutes to the airport in Neskantaga First Nation and fills his pickup truck with cases of bottled water flown in on the dime o...
Sep 26, 2024
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Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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