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Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:41:02 EDT
Nova Scotia to lift quarantine rules for New Brunswick travellers
The lifting of the restriction on self-isolation for New Brunswickers will take effect Saturday at 8 a.m. But it's unclear when New Brunswick might lift its restrictions on Nova Scotian travellers. ...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:15:12 EDT
In nurses' firing, union calls for due process, while First Nations leaders hope broader concerns aren't lost
The union representing two nurses accused of racist treatment against an Atikamekw woman say they should not have been fired so quickly. But First Nations leaders hope the controversy doesn't overshad...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Ontario's 3rd wave of COVID-19 could hit younger adults harder. Here's why
Despite rising vaccination rates, there's growing consensus among medical experts that Ontario's third wave of COVID-19 cases has already started. Clinicians and epidemiologists warn patients may be b...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:09:12 EDT
Stepfather found guilty of murdering 3-year-old who interrupted his video game
A Calgary stepfather has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a three-year-old girl who had interrupted his video game. 

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:05:29 EDT
Lawyer for ex-Nazi interpreter Helmut Oberlander files motion to permanently end deportation proceedings
A 97-year-old Waterloo, Ont., man who worked as an interpreter for one of the Nazis' most brutal killing units is asking the federal government to stay immigration proceedings against him. ...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:03:53 EDT
Ankylosaurs dug into the ground to protect themselves, Alberta paleontologist says
Finding a skeleton in a life pose with arms and feet intact for the first time may confirm what paleontologists have suspected for years, that ankylosaurs had powerful arms for digging protective dugo...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 05:00:00 EDT
After 230-year fight, Caldwell First Nation has reserve status; begins to build a new community
A 230-year fight for land ended recently, with Caldwell First Nation finally being able to achieve their reserve status.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash
Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train parked without handbrakes last month high in the mountains of eastern B.C., above the site of a deadly runaway two...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Ontario to (finally) pull the plug on fax machines in public service
The Ontario government says it's finally time to cut the cord on the fax machine. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy is directing the province's public service to phase out its 1,500 traditional tele...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
If he's ever going to win, Erin O'Toole needs to start broadening the Conservative tent
The Conservatives can count on a rock-solid base of about 30 per cent of the electorate, but they'll need more than that to win an election.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
She turns 100 today, but will have to wait for her COVID-19 vaccine
The Middlesex-London Health Unit says it's working on ways to vaccinate London seniors who weren't vaccinated in recent mobile clinics at group homes and who can't travel to one of the city's three ma...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Up up and away: Justice League and Marvel heroes soar to streaming platforms as digital demand grows
Your favourite superheroes are stuck at home too — on digital streaming services, instead of theatres. With Zack Snyder's newly revamped Justice League and Falcon and the Winter Soldier streaming fo...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Why does Canada's foreign aid policy keep stumbling?
The killing of civilians has cast a pall over the government of Abiy Ahmed, the world's biggest recipient of Canadian aid. So far this century, Canada has already backed two countries as its top aid r...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Canada Infrastructure Bank set to launch $1B initiative for Indigenous community projects
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is expected to launch a $1 billion Indigenous community infrastructure initiative today to spur investment in First Nation, Inuit and Metis communities, CBC News h...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:12:21 EDT
Atlantic bubble 2.0 expected to begin by April 19, premiers say
The second iteration of the Atlantic bubble is expected to begin by April 19, the Council of Atlantic Premiers announced on Thursday. The news sparked a cheery banter between Atlantic provinces govern...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 20:07:55 EDT
Meng Wanzhou lawyers attack 'unprecedented' refusal of key RCMP witness to testify
Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou want the judge overseeing the Huawei executive’s extradition proceedings to conclude that a key RCMP witness refused to testify because he would have undermined the Crown’...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:46:45 EDT
Violent deaths of women in Canada increased in 2020, study finds
Alongside COVID-19, another pandemic has wreaked havoc on the security and well-being of anyone it touches: violence against women and girls in this country.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:46:14 EDT
B.C. judge dismisses churches' petition against COVID 19 rules
A legal advocacy group that challenged COVID-19 rules in British Columbia says its argument that the restrictions unjustifiably infringed on religious freedoms has been dismissed by a judge. ...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:46:52 EDT
Justice advocates await Ottawa's promised national Indigenous justice strategy
The federal government is promising a new national justice strategy to counter the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the justice system. British Columbia's model suggests a place to start. ...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:16:16 EDT
Polytechnique victims' loved ones accuse Trudeau of 'betraying' them with new gun control bill
Survivors and family members of victims of the Polytechnique massacre say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has abandoned and betrayed them with his government's firearms legislation Bill C-21. ...



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