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Biden says basic U.S. rights are at risk if Supreme Court draft decision stands

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden says the explosive Supreme Court draft decision on abortion could pose a serious threat to a wide range of basic American rights. Biden says the rationale of the draft...

May 03, 2022

What's Canadian? Minister to modernize definition of a Canadian film and TV program

OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is going to review what qualifies as a Canadian film or TV program as part of a move to modernize the country's broadcast laws. The definition of Can...

May 03, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court abortion draft prompts scrutiny of Canadian politicians' actions

OTTAWA - A leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that suggests the countrywide right to abortion could soon be overturned in the United States is prompting scrutiny of the Liberal government's actio...

May 03, 2022

Nova Scotia mass shooting gunman drew police attention 10 years before killings

HALIFAX - A new document shows that the gunman who killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia had been on the radar of police up to a decade before his two-day rampage in April 2020. The report tabled Tues...

May 03, 2022

Ukraine tells Canada Russia must be held to account: In The News for May 3rd

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 3rd, 2022 ... What we are watching in Cana...

May 03, 2022

Highway blockades over old-growth logging aimed at forcing a dialogue, activists say

VANCOUVER - The activists behind road blockades and hunger strikes calling for an end to old-growth logging in British Columbia say their non-violent actions are aimed at sparking public discussion an...

May 03, 2022

Conservatives, Bloc pan government move to allow midnight sittings in Parliament

OTTAWA - The Conservatives say the prime minister is trying to create "an audience, not an opposition" after the Liberal government introduced changes to allow midnight sittings for the rest of the sp...

May 02, 2022

Nova Scotia's mass shooting inquiry will soon focus on killer's violent past: report

HALIFAX - The inquiry investigating the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia has released an interim report that charts its progress so far and offers insight into what it hopes to accomplish over the ne...

May 02, 2022

Polar bear experts say killing animal in Quebec was necessary, standard practice

MONTREAL - Wildlife experts say it was necessary to shoot dead a polar bear that was found wandering on Quebec's Gasp peninsula over the weekend. Sylvain Marois with Quebec's Wildlife Department said ...

May 02, 2022

B.C. tables data collection law to help dismantle systemic racism, says premier

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is introducing data collection legislation that it says will start the process of dismantling systemic racism faced by Indigenous and other racialized commun...

May 02, 2022