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Minority Liberal government survives second of three confidence votes on budget
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau's minority Liberal government has survived the second of three confidence votes on the massive federal budget.A Conservative amendment was defeated by a vote of 213-120, with L...
Apr 22, 2021
Hate crimes jumped 51 per cent in part spurred by pandemic, Toronto police report
TORONTO - Hate crime complaints and arrests in the country's largest city jumped sharply last year, with Jewish and Black people the most common targets, according to an annual police report released ...
Apr 22, 2021
Canada to suspend flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days
OTTAWA - The federal government is suspending incoming passenger flights from India and Pakistan for the next month as cases of COVID-19 surge in both countries. "Effective 11:30 p.m. Eastern time ton...
Apr 22, 2021
Sahara's Polisario Front chief gets COVID treatment in Spain
MADRID - The man leading the Polisario Front in its fight for independence of Western Sahara is hospitalized in Spain for treatment of COVID-19, officials from Spain and the group said Thursday. Brahi...
Apr 22, 2021
Bank of England reveals lobbying efforts of ex-PM Cameron
LONDON - The Bank of England published on Thursday a series of communications showing Britain's former prime minister, David Cameron making repeated efforts for a now-bankrupt financial firm to access...
Apr 22, 2021
'Good chance' new Quebec language bill will include notwithstanding clause: Legault
Quebec's premier is hinting that upcoming legislation strengthening the province's language laws will include the notwithstanding clause to protect the bill from constitutional challenges. The notwith...
Apr 22, 2021
Supreme Court won't hear appeal in case of novelist acquitted on child porn charge
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada declined on Thursday to hear an appeal in the case of a Quebec author acquitted of producing child pornography in connection with fictional scenes in a horror nove...
Apr 22, 2021
Risk experts say climate change to take big chunk of Canadian economy by 2050
Canada will be more than $100 billion poorer by 2050 if the world doesn't work harder to fight climate change, says one of the world's largest insurers. That anticipated drop in GDP is much higher tha...
Apr 22, 2021
Canada bans flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days; Ford sorry for health orders
Canada will ban all flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days after pressure from provincial leaders who are making tough decisions to tackle surging COVID-19 variant cases at home.Federal Health Mi...
Apr 22, 2021
More supply needed to ease housing price crunch, but always more to do, Freeland says
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the country needs a boost in the supply of housing to help make prices more affordable, but suggests there may be other steps governments can take. Spe...
Apr 22, 2021
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Evan talks with historian Bill Waiser about Saskatchewan's 120 birthday, university associate professor Ian Lee about Ca...