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Voter bares arms, and more, after anti-Trump shirt is nixed
EXETER, N.H. - A voter who was told she couldn't wear an anti-Trump shirt at a polling place because it violated electioneering rules simply whipped it off and did her civic duty topless. The woman wa...
Sep 09, 2020
Official claims pressure to alter Homeland Security intel
WASHINGTON - A Department of Homeland Security official said in a whistleblower complaint that he was pressured by more senior officials to suppress facts in intelligence reports that President Donald...
Sep 09, 2020
Derek Sloan says no regrets over failed bid for Conservative leadership
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Derek Sloan, who finished last in the party's recent leadership race, says he has no regrets about his campaign. Outside a meeting of the federal Conservative caucus Wedn...
Sep 09, 2020
Legault, Ford call on Ottawa to increase health transfers to provinces
The premiers of Ontario and Quebec are calling on Ottawa to increase health transfers to the provinces, saying that sustainable, long-term funding is required on top of existing federal COVID-19 ...
Sep 09, 2020
Statistics Canada rejigs low-income stats, showing growing poverty gap
OTTAWA - Canadians living well below the low-income threshold had fallen further behind in the years prior to COVID-19, based on updated poverty figures that experts say might get worse because of the...
Sep 09, 2020
Trudeau announces cash for loans, support to Black Canadian entrepreneurs
OTTAWA - Black Canadians who want to start or expand a business will have access to loans and supports for training and mentorship under a new federal program unveiled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Sep 09, 2020
Biden visits manufacturing heartland to curry favour with blue-collar voters
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden ventured into America's hard-hit manufacturing heartland Wednesday, promising a suite of Buy American tax credits and penalties to fortify his blue-collar bona fides and pr...
Sep 09, 2020
Canadians reluctant to remove statues of historical figures now seen as racist: Poll
OTTAWA - A new survey suggests that while Canadians are divided over removing monuments to politicians who harboured racist views or pushed racist policies, many oppose the "spontaneous" toppling of s...
Sep 09, 2020 The statue of Sir John A. MacDonald is shown torn down following a demonstration in Montreal on August 29, 2020. A new survey suggests that while Canadians are divided over removing statues of politicians who harboured racist views or pushed racist policies, many oppose the "spontaneous" toppling of statues of Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. The Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies survey follows the controversial tearing down and vandalism of a Macdonald statue in Montreal last month by activists angry at his anti-Indigenous views and policies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Learn the lessons of history, don't 'cancel' them, new Tory leader O'Toole says
OTTAWA - New Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole said Wednesday that plaques, not protests, should grace the fronts of historical sites and monuments that reflect controversial moments in Canadian histor...
Sep 09, 2020
Health care and education big issues as New Brunswick party leaders debate
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's party leaders clashed on how to address health care services, education and economic development in a televised debate Wednesday night. Progressive Conservative Prem...
Sep 09, 2020
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