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Ban on vaping ads that can be seen by youth to take effect next month
Ottawa's new rules restricting the promotion of vaping products in places young people can access are set to come into effect next month. Health Canada published regulations Wednesday p...
Jul 08, 2020
Canadian all-rounder Saad Bin Zafar to play in Caribbean Premier League
TORONTO - Canadian all-rounder Saad Bin Zafar has been drafted by the St. Lucia Zouks for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League cricket season. The Barbados Tridents are looking to defend their T20 t...
Jul 08, 2020
Auditor finds $2.4B in unpaid student loans, calls for stronger recovery efforts
OTTAWA - Canada's auditor general is calling for the federal government to step up its recovery of outstanding student loans to keep taxpayers from being left on the hook. In a report tabled in P...
Jul 08, 2020
Singh calls on Trudeau to address systemic racism in police forces
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the Rideau Hall intruder had been a person of colour the outcome would have been different. Military reservist and Manitoba businessman Corey Hurren...
Jul 08, 2020
U.S., Mexican presidents meeting at White House to talk USMCA, without Canada
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is meeting today with his Mexican counterpart to celebrate North America's new trade deal - without Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to join...
Jul 08, 2020
Supreme Court sides with Trump in birth control opt-out case
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in its effort to allow more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women as required by the Affordable Care A...
Jul 08, 2020
Coppola and Henson companies get loans for winery, puppetry
LOS ANGELES - From a godfather of cinema to Kermit the Frog, the U.S. government's small-business lending program sent money into unexpected corners of the entertainment industry. While legendary name...
Jul 08, 2020
Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students
BOSTON - Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to bar international students from staying i...
Jul 08, 2020
Border agency failing to promptly remove many people from Canada, auditor says
OTTAWA - The federal auditor general says Canada's border agency has failed to promptly remove most of the people under orders to leave the country. In a report tabled in Parliament today, the auditor...
Jul 08, 2020
RDN gets its bins in a row for automated garbage rollout
NANAIMO - An implementation plan has been unveiled to transition to automated garbage collection for 30,000 mid island households.A Regional District of Nanaimo staff report tabled at a committee meet...
Jul 08, 2020