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Freeland blasts Tories, but thanks NDP for support on pushing new NAFTA forward

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has offered effusive thanks to New Democrats and stinging criticism of the Conservatives after the NDP supported the minority Liberal government's efforts to more speedily ratify the new No...

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RCMP: officer narrowly avoided being run down by a woman by hopping on the hood of his cruiser

RCMP say one of their officers narrowly avoided being run down by a woman by hopping on the hood of his cruiser. Mounties say in a news release the officer tried to stop the woman after identifying her vehicle as one allegedly associated with fuel thefts in the southern Interior. They allege she rammed into his cruiser when he tried to block her way, and she accelerated toward him after he exited the vehicle. The 44-year-old woman from 100 Mile House faces multiple charges, including dangerous driving, flight from police and assaulting a police officer with a weapon. ...

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No new coronavirus cases under investigation in Ontario

Ontario now has no novel coronavirus cases under investigation.A daily update from the provincial government shows that 421 people have been tested in the province over the past several weeks, and nearly all were negative for the ...

Via to partly resume service between Quebec City and Ottawa starting Thursday

Via Rail says partial service is set to resume between Quebec City, Montreal and Ottawa beginning Thursday.Almost all other Via Rail services remain cancelled with the exception of Sudbury White River and Churchill The Pas, until ...

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Federal government asks court for four more months to amend assisted dying law

The federal government is asking for more time to amend the assisted-dying law, acknowledging that it can't meet a court imposed deadline to drop a provision that allows only those who are already near death to qualify for medical help to end their lives. Justice Minister David Lametti filed a motion Monday requesting a four-month extension on the court ruling. Quebec Superior Court Judge Christine Baudouin ruled last September that it is unconstitutional to limit the right to a medically assisted death to those whose natural death is "reasonably foreseeable." She gave the government until Ma...

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Anti pipeline emergency meeting ends, no signs on what's the way ahead

An emergency meeting of cabinet ministers to discuss anti-pipeline blockades has ended with participants giving no sign of what they are planning to do. Hereditary chiefs are protesting a planned natural-gas pipeline that crosse...

Trudeau cancels Caribbean trip amid pipeline protests

The prime minister is calling off a planned trip to the Caribbean this week. His office announced the cancellation less than 24 hours before Justin Trudeau was scheduled to fly to Barbados, where he was expected to sell Canada's b...

Former Conservative cabinet minister John Baird decides to stay out of leadership race

Former Conservative cabinet minister John Baird says he's not running to lead the federal Conservative party. His announcement puts an end to days of speculation that he could enter the race, talk that began late last month after both current MP Pierre Poilievre and former interim party leader Rona Ambrose decided not to run. Baird had been poised to run Poilievre's campaign, but Poilievre dropped out last month, saying his heart wasn't in it. The absence of what some in the party feel is a ``true blue'' voice in the contest a role some saw as belonging to either Poilievre or Ambrose _ put pr...

Japan confirms 12 Canadians on cruise ship infected with novel coronavirus

Japanese authorities might soon allow people quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship near Tokyo, where 12 Canadians have contracted the novel coronavirus, to disembark and finish out their isolation on land. The 3,500 passengers on the ship have been under quarantine since last week, and so far 218 have tested positive for the disease, which the World Health Organization has dubbed COVID-19. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois Philippe Champagne says it's the biggest concentration of confirmed cases outside of mainland China. Champagne says emergency response teams and consular offi...

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Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin opts for trial by judge only in sexual assault case

The senior military officer once tasked with overseeing Canada's COVID-19 vaccination drive is opting to have his sexual assault case tried by a Quebec judge without a jury present. A lawyer for Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin announced the decision during a brief hearing in a Gatineau courtroom this morning. Fortin was removed from his position on the vaccine campaign in May and was charged with one count of sexual assault in August. He is fighting for reinstatement to his former role with the Public Health Agency of Canada alleging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other senior members of the Liberal...

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