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'Significant step towards reconciliation:' N.W.T. introduces bill to implement UNDRIP
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories government has introduced a bill to guide implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which it says will advance recon...
Mar 30, 2023
Who’s who in the Manhattan DA’s Donald Trump investigation
As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of...
Mar 30, 2023
U.K. to join Pacific trade bloc after Canadian help, clearing path for bilateral deal
OTTAWA - Britain is set to join a massive trade bloc that will likely speed up negotiations on a bilateral deal between Ottawa and London. The countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement ...
Mar 30, 2023
VIDEO: Motorhome destroyed by fire near downtown Nanaimo
NANAIMO - No reported injuries but a potential case of arson with a fire destroying a motorhome.Flames broke out in the 600 block of Albert St., near Superette Foods, around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Ma...
Mar 30, 2023
Freeland says budget lacked housing measures because 2022 funds still being spent
SURREY, B.C. - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says this week's federal budget lacked new measures to address Canada's housing crisis because last year's budget already included a $10-billion plan ...
Mar 30, 2023
Trump denounces 'unthinkable' indictment as evidence of 'political persecution'
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump has become the first former U.S. president to face a criminal indictment - and he's wasting no time trying to turn it to his advantage. Multiple media reports, citing anonymo...
Mar 30, 2023
Freeland says budget lacked housing measures because 2022 funds still being spent
SURREY, B.C. - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says this week's federal budget lacked new measures to address Canada's housing crisis because last year's budget already included a $10-billion plan ...
Mar 30, 2023
Trump indictment live updates: Latest news, developments
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the first ever criminal case against a former president, Donald Trump has been indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016 campaign to quash claims of two extramar...
Mar 30, 2023
Non-profit organizations call on government to protect Muslim charities
OTTAWA - Several members of the non-profit sector, including the United Way and Imagine Canada, are calling on the federal government to take immediate steps to shield Muslim-led charities from potent...
Mar 30, 2023
Turpel-Lafond returns honorary degree granted by Simon Fraser University in B.C.
Officials at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., have accepted the return of an honorary degree awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the former judge and law professor whose claims of Indigenous...
Mar 30, 2023