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On the campaign trail and August inflation numbers : In The News for Sept. 15

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 Sept. 15 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Sep 15, 2021

B.C. man who murdered a family of six on camping trip in 1982 seeking parole

BOWDEN, ALBERTA - A man convicted of the mass murder of a family nearly 40 years ago is to seek his release once again when he appears today before the Parole Board of Canada. David Shearing, who now ...

Sep 15, 2021

Campaign has Trudeau in Halifax, O'Toole in Quebec and Singh in Ontario

The three main party leaders are in Eastern and Central Canada today, a day after a new poll suggested the already close race is getting even tighter. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau gets his day starte...

Sep 15, 2021

More than 150,000 people in Canada experience 'long COVID' symptoms: report

TORONTO - More research is needed to understand the so-called "long COVID" condition and the burden it poses on the health-care system, a science advisory group said in a report Tuesday. The Ontario C...

Sep 14, 2021

Teal Cedar Products asks B.C. court for one-year injunction extension at Fairy Creek

NANAIMO, B.C. - A British Columbia forestry company is in court applying for a one-year extension of an injunction against ongoing old-growth logging protests on southern Vancouver Island. A lawyer fo...

Sep 14, 2021

Dozens of lawyers call for suspension of extradition with France over Diab case

OTTAWA - More than 100 legal professionals are asking Canada to suspend its extradition treaty with France over concerns "an innocent man" could face trial there in a terrorism case. In May, a French ...

Sep 14, 2021

Officials too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths at Montreal care home: witness

MONTREAL - An auxiliary nurse told a coroner's inquest today that health authorities were too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths in a Montreal-area long-term care home when some of them were in fact c...

Sep 14, 2021

Desmond inquiry: focus of hearings shifts to examination of domestic violence

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia inquiry investigating why a former soldier killed his family and himself in 2017 turned its attention today to the issue of domestic violence. The executive direc...

Sep 14, 2021

N.S. family who perished in trailer fire were busy and boisterous: neighbour

AMHERST, N.S. - A mother, father and four children who perished in a fire inside their vacation trailer are being recalled as an active, boisterous family by a friend who rented them the Amherst, N.S....

Sep 14, 2021

Calgary firm advances new trial, manufacturing of mRNA vaccine for COVID-19

OTTAWA - Calgary-based Providence Therapeutics says it has signed two contracts to have its developmental mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 manufactured in Canada. The company says it has signed a $90-million...

Sep 14, 2021