The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, July 20
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TRUDEAU DEFENDS CHOICE OF PAYETTE FOR VICEREGAL: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there was nothing that came up during the vetting of Julie Payette that he saw as a reason she shouldn’t be chosen as Governor General. Trudeau says his officials conducted a thorough background check on Payette. It’s emerged that she has a dismissed charge of second-degree assault when she lived in Maryland in 2011. She was also found not at fault in the death of a woman in a fatal car crash. Payette has called the assault charge unfounded, noting that she was quickly cleared.
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