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Tue, 4 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Group of Ontario police officers launches charter challenge of pandemic restrictions
A group of 19 Ontario police officers has launched a constitutional challenge against the provincial and federal governments, claiming that enforcing sweeping pandemic health restrictions puts them a...

Tue, 4 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Fire, flood, COVID and the oil crash: Fort McMurray businesses aim to bounce back from hard luck
Fort McMurray, Alta, has seen it all in the last decade — fire, flood, a pandemic and an economic downturn. Businesses are hoping better days are ahead.

Tue, 4 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Not available in Canada: A look at COVID-19 vaccine tech from China, India and Cuba
COVID-19 vaccines developed in China are in use around the world. Those developed in India, Kazakhstan and Cuba are being used domestically. Here’s a closer look at the inactivated and conjugate vac...

Tue, 4 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Army probe of Ranger unit finds some members 'vulnerable' to extremism
A Canadian army investigation of a troubled reserve unit at the centre of allegations of right-wing extremism identified several members as "vulnerable" and "at risk" of being swept up into "a hat...

Tue, 4 May 2021 04:00:51 EDT
Ottawa says it has no idea how many people defied hotel quarantine rules
The federal government has doled out more than 500 fines to air passengers who refused to quarantine in a hotel upon arrival in Canada. But there appears to be no evidence of any fines being issued ...

Tue, 4 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
When can we stop wearing masks?
The U.S. has loosened its rules about wearing masks. When will it be Canada's turn?

Mon, 3 May 2021 22:20:49 EDT
B.C. mayor apologizes for U.S. trip to visit family, get vaccinated
Rossland, B.C., Mayor Kathy Moore says in hindsight, she made the wrong decision to travel to the United States for COVID-19 vaccines and to spend time with her family.

Tue, 4 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Our colonial history, the colonial agenda and Bill C-15
Canada began the process of implementing UNDRIP unilaterally top-down, ensuring that Canada’s own version, with its own definition of self-determination, becomes entrenched in law through Bill C-15....

Mon, 3 May 2021 15:45:08 EDT
Yukon Party members apologize after sending crude messages about premier, NDP leader
Yukon Party leader Currie Dixon is apologizing after crude text messages written by members of his party about Premier Sandy Silver and NDP leader Kate White emerged over the weekend. ...

Mon, 3 May 2021 14:38:37 EDT
Johnson & Johnson vaccine recommended for Canadians 30 and older despite risk of rare blood clots
Canada now recommends the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for all Canadians 30 years of age and older, but officials also say to weigh the risk of rare but potentially serious blood clots that can occur f...

Mon, 3 May 2021 19:16:47 EDT
Garneau to quarantine in hotel after returning from G7 ministers' meeting in U.K.
Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau will stay in a quarantine hotel for three days starting Wednesday after returning from the United Kingdom, where he's attending the first in-person meeting of G7 ...

Mon, 3 May 2021 06:30:00 EDT
CN withholding pension from gay widower over outdated definition of spouse
Ken Haire was devastated when his partner of 33 years, Gerry Schwarz, died in 2012. He was even more distraught when he learned he wouldn't see a dollar of the survivor benefits built into Schwarz's ...

Mon, 3 May 2021 04:00:07 EDT
When can we start travelling overseas again?
Itching to travel again? One Ottawa travel agency says people are booking Caribbean and resort vacations for as early as this September and cruises are quickly booking up for 2022.

Mon, 3 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
7 Manitoba churches challenging province's COVID-19 pandemic powers in court
Seven rural Manitoba churches hope to convince a judge that the province’s lockdown measures are unjustified violations of Charter-protected freedoms, in one of several cases that will pit those fre...

Mon, 3 May 2021 07:00:00 EDT
Vancouver lawyer and model battle anti-Asian hate with the practical and the poetic
Confronted with attacks against Asians in the media and in their own lives, two Vancouver men say they're fighting anti-Asian hate crimes on their own terms.

Mon, 3 May 2021 11:14:11 EDT
Quebec's youth protection system failing children, urgent reforms needed, report says
Quebec is being called on to turn “anger into action” in a landmark report into the province’s youth protection services, two years after the death of a seven-year-old girl in Granby shocked the...

Mon, 3 May 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Customer records 3 Bell reps offering same deal, then is told he can't have it
Despite documenting three different sales reps making him the same offer, an Ontario man was later denied that same deal by Bell Mobility, which said the offer didn't exist. The man is one of thousand...

Mon, 3 May 2021 12:28:13 EDT
Conservatives call on Trudeau to fire top adviser over military sexual misconduct scandal
The federal Conservatives laid down a political marker today by calling on the prime minister to fire his top adviser over how his government handled the sexual misconduct crisis in the military. ...

Mon, 3 May 2021 13:44:29 EDT
Iqaluit declares local state of emergency after COVID-19 community transmission detected
The City of Iqaluit declared a local state of emergency Monday afternoon at an emergency city council meeting. Iqaluit’s mayor Kenny Bell said the emergency empowers the city’s bylaw officers to ...

Mon, 3 May 2021 10:44:13 EDT
Shared smoking breaks, broken rules: What led to Nunavut's first COVID-19 cases?
Broken isolation rules, shared cigarettes and fear of extended isolation periods are some of the findings in a report that sheds light on how Nunavut's first cases of COVID-19 suddenly appeared last N...



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