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Year in review: A look at news events in March 2024
A look at news events in March 2024: 1 - Health Minister Mark Holland tables a bill considered the first step toward a possible pharmacare program. The legislation lays down a road map for how the fed...
Dec 12, 2024
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2024
A look at news events in February 2024: 01 - The federal government announces spending of an additional $362 million to help provinces and cities temporarily house asylum seekers. Immigration Minister...
Dec 12, 2024
Creditors expected to vote on proposed $32.5B deal with tobacco giants today
Creditors are expected to vote today on a proposed settlement that would see three major tobacco manufacturers pay out billions to provinces and territories, as well as smokers across Canada. The prop...
Dec 12, 2024
Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador announcing energy deal, ending decades of strife
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The premiers of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador are set to announce a resolution today to an energy issue that has driven a wedge between the provinces for decades. Quebec Prem...
Dec 12, 2024
Settlement reached in complaint over Canada Post layoffs as strike hits four weeks
The union representing Canada Post workers says an unfair labour practice complaint over the company's layoffs has been resolved. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers filed the complaint with the Cana...
Dec 12, 2024
New Brunswick's first female premier seeking to build province with compassion
FREDERICTON - Susan Holt was puzzled when an envelope with an orange U.S. stamp depicting an African daisy arrived in her mail last month. It was postmarked New York. The newly elected New Brunswick p...
Dec 12, 2024
Missing 'lost Canadians' deadline creates 'unknowable' number of new citizens: feds
OTTAWA - The federal government is asking an Ontario Superior Court for more time to pass citizenship legislation for the "lost Canadians," saying that without an extension an "unknowable" number of p...
Dec 12, 2024
Russian living in B.C. claims Scotiabank wrongfully withholding funds over sanctions
VANCOUVER - A Russian woman who has been living and working in Canada for the last eight years says her money is locked in limbo due to sanctions against Russia's largest bank, so she's taking Scotiab...
Dec 12, 2024
Year in review: A look at news events in January 2024
A look at news events in January 2024: 1 - Former world cycling champion Rohan Dennis is charged in connection with the death of his wife, 32-year-old Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins. She died late De...
Dec 12, 2024
Prosecutors close rape investigation that Swedish media say focused on Kylian Mbappé
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Swedish prosecutors say they have dropped a rape investigation that was launched in connection with soccer star Kylian Mbapp's visit to Stockholm in October. In a statement, lead inve...
Dec 12, 2024