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Trudeau appoints Daniel Rogers new head of Canada's spy agency
OTTAWA - A veteran of Canada's national security systems has been named the new head of the national spy agency. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Daniel Rogers as the new director of the Ca...
Oct 15, 2024
Bilingual Quebec communities lose bid to suspend application of language law rules
MONTREAL - Bilingual Quebec municipalities have lost their bid to have several parts of the government's French-language reform suspended while their case makes its way through the courts. The communi...
Oct 15, 2024
Corrective to Oct. 1 story about war in the Middle East
OTTAWA - In a story published Oct. 1, 2024 about the escalation of war in the Middle East, The Canadian Press erroneously attributed the quotation "all-out war" to Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly...
Oct 15, 2024
N.S. to build berm to protect Chignecto Isthmus, still wants Ottawa to pay for it
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says that in the coming days it will start building a 500-metre-long berm to protect a low-lying land link between the province and New Brunswick. The Chignecto Is...
Oct 15, 2024
Atlantic region records drop of nearly 3,000 foreign students after federal caps
HALIFAX - International enrolment in Atlantic Canada has fallen by nearly 3,000 students this academic year, a drop one university group says is the "devastating effect" of the federal government's po...
Oct 15, 2024
Two candidates apply to run for Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership
WINNIPEG - Two candidates have put their names forward for the leadership of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives. The party says nominations are closed and it has received two applications. Former pr...
Oct 15, 2024
Alberta to launch new primary care agency by next month in health overhaul
The Alberta government continues to divvy up its provincial health authority, with the health minister saying the new agency responsible for primary care is expected to be up and running by November. ...
Oct 15, 2024
Moe promises to continue withholding federal carbon levy on home heating
REGINA - Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe says residents would continue to be exempt from paying the federal carbon levy on home heating if he's re-elected premier on Oct. 28. Moe says by not remit...
Oct 15, 2024
Manitoba taps former federal cabinet minister to lead Winnipeg rail relocation study
WINNIPEG - Longtime federal Liberal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy has been tapped by the Manitoba government to lead a study into the decades-old issue of relocating rail lines in Winnipeg. Premier ...
Oct 15, 2024
What Canada's row with India means for trade relationship
Experts say the diplomatic row between Canada and India could derail a trading relationship that already "woefully underperforms its potential." Partha Mohanran, director of the India Innovation Insti...
Oct 15, 2024 Partha Mohanran, director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto, says Canada's decision to expel New Delhi's top envoy and five other diplomats is a new low in the relationship between the two countries. (The Canadian Press)
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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...