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Trudeau campaigns in Atlantic Canada
MIDGELL, P.E.I. - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau travelled Tuesday through Atlantic Canada, hoping to remind Atlantic Canadians why they handed him every seat in the regio...
Sep 17, 2019
N.S. senior whose birthday card request drew international response dies
SYDNEY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia widower who received thousands of birthday cards last year after his daughter asked people to mail him their best wishes for his 92nd birthday has died...
Sep 17, 2019
Greens call for stronger digital privacy protections
WATERLOO, Ont. - Intrusions into Canadians' digital privacy have become a crisis and it's time to stop companies from mining people's information for profit, the Green party leader said Tuesday a...
Sep 17, 2019
Court allows appeal on pipeline certificate, says B.C. needs to reconsider
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has been ordered by the province's highest court to reconsider its environmental assessment certificate allowing the expansion of the Trans M...
Sep 17, 2019
Court allows appeal on pipeline certificate, says B.C. needs to reconsider
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has been ordered by the province's highest court to reconsider its environmental assessment certificate allowing the expansion of the Trans M...
Sep 17, 2019
Man who scammed romantic partner wants mistrial despite guilty finding
TORONTO - A con artist who scammed the romantic partner he met online out of hundreds of thousands of dollars has asked a judge to declare a mistrial months after finding him guilty. In his motion, Sh...
Sep 17, 2019
Gory murders, stabbings, kids slain: Killers found not criminally responsible
EDMONTON - A review board at Alberta Hospital in Edmonton is deciding whether a man who killed five young people at a house party in Calgary should be given some increased freedom. A judge f...
Sep 17, 2019
NDP's Singh seeks urban support with housing billions, avoids deficit questions
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh continued his push to win progressive votes on Tuesday by promising an NDP government would invest billions of dollars in affordable housing to help Canadians struggling to make...
Sep 17, 2019
Doug Ford says he's too busy with governing to campaign for Scheer
VERNER, Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday he is too busy governing to campaign with federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, as one of a suite of Tory premiers to so far decline to appea...
Sep 17, 2019
Tax credits or cash? Parties spar over what is best for parental benefits
OTTAWA - Is it better to be paid in credit or with cash? That's a question Liberals and Conservatives tusseled over Tuesday in the ongoing federal election competition for the votes of middle-cla...
Sep 17, 2019