Sarah Mills: I don't want to live in a world where people are shot for their opinions
Sarah Mills says she was no follower of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but the idea that people are being killed ov...
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Biden's win means some Guantanamo prisoners may be released
WASHINGTON - The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre went to his latest review board hearing with a degree of hope, something that has been scarce during his 16 years locked up with...
Nov 28, 2020
Europe's Christmas dilemma: risk empty chairs next year?
BRUSSELS - Please leave a chair empty at this year's family Christmas dinner as a precaution, or face the possibility of having that chair empty forever. That's the stark dilemma Belgium's prime minis...
Nov 28, 2020
Mountie says he suggested meeting with CBSA on Meng arrest to avoid 'problems'
VANCOUVER - The Mountie who says he warned against arresting Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou by boarding her plane when it landed in Vancouver says he made his own decision to come into the airport and ...
Nov 27, 2020
Study suggests pandemic-induced recession could impact paternity leave take-up rates
OTTAWA - New research suggests a bump in the number of fathers who planned to take time off with a new baby under a nascent national leave program could be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has be...
Nov 27, 2020
With deficit closing in on $400 billion, Liberals detail more spending to come
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are proposing $25 billion in new spending to help Canadian businesses and workers make it through a COVID-19 winter and vowing tens of billions more to help the country r...
Nov 27, 2020
Conservatives attack Trudeau's 'reset' but they have ideas for their own
OTTAWA - Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre says building up the Canadian economy after the COVID-19 pandemic can't be achieved without a massive overhaul of the tax system and regulatory re...
Nov 27, 2020
Scientists urge permanent protection of Last Ice Area in Canada's High Arctic
Derek Mueller, a senior researcher at Carleton University, cut his scientific teeth studying mats of microbes on some of Canada's oldest, thickest and most remote sea ice. "They have some very i...
Nov 27, 2020
NDP leader stoked over 'epic crossover' in video gaming sesh with AOC
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh committed a grisly slaying in front of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday night. Fortunately, the victim was a video game character, not a human being. The NDP leader squared of...
Nov 27, 2020
PMOops: Trudeau's office releases account of him scolding O'Toole before he does it
OTTAWA - A spokesman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his office accidentally sent out an account of a phone call with Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole that hadn't happened yet. The premature ac...
Nov 27, 2020
A look at what provinces and territories have said about COVID-19 vaccine plans
The federal government is laying plans for the procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, inking contracts with seven potential manufacturers and saying six million doses could arrive in the c...
Nov 27, 2020
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