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MPs need to consult women, social media companies about online behaviour: Cullen
OTTAWA - Women and social-media companies should be brought into a critical discussion about how parliamentarians conduct themselves online, says veteran NDP MP Nathan Cullen. Many MPs insist that wha...
Nov 08, 2018
CFL East semifinal on Remembrance Day to pause for moment of silence
TORONTO - The CFL will pause Sunday’s Eastern semifinal for a moment of silence to honour Canada’s veterans. The game in Hamilton between the Tiger-Cats and B.C. Lions is scheduled to take...
Nov 08, 2018
Community where no one wanted to be mayor gets a mayor, but only reluctantly
WELLINGTON, P.E.I. - Nobody wanted to be mayor, but Wellington, P.E.I., got one anyway. There were no mayoral candidates in Monday’s province-wide municipal elections, so the provincial governme...
Nov 08, 2018
Statcan's plan to harvest private banking info on hold, pending investigation
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada’s controversial plan to harvest personal financial data without people’s consent is on hold until an investigation of the legality and intrusiveness of the proje...
Nov 08, 2018
Newly renovated West Block turned over as House of Commons prepares to move
OTTAWA - The newly renovated West Block of Parliament was formally turned over to the speaker of the House of Commons Thursday as Geoff Regan accepted a large, sculpted copper key on behalf of MPs. &#...
Nov 08, 2018
Quebec wildlife officials probe mysterious killing of endangered caribou
MONTREAL - Wildlife officials in Quebec appealed to the public this week as they probed the suspected poaching death of an endangered caribou on the province’s Gaspe peninsula. An estimated 74 a...
Nov 08, 2018
Mentally ill work camp killer found not criminally responsible
Daniel Goodridge has been found not criminally responsible for the fatal stabbing attacks at a work camp near Fox Creek in 2015. In a one hour and 15-minute reading of his decision, Alberta Court of Q...
Nov 08, 2018
Medical pot company plugs web security flaw but privacy concerns persist
TORONTO - A prominent Canadian medical marijuana company took weeks to fix a website security weakness that could have allowed hackers to access a patient’s sensitive information. In an intervie...
Nov 08, 2018
In his own words: Tony Clement's letter to his constituents, verbatim
Here is a full copy of the letter to constituents of Parry Sound-Muskoka that MP Tony Clement posted on his website on Thursday: This is Tony Clement and this message is for my constituents in Parry S...
Nov 08, 2018
Clement admits to multiple acts of infidelity as long ago as last summer
OTTAWA - Former Conservative MP Tony Clement has had inappropriate online relationships with more than one woman and went to the police months ago because someone was trying to pay one of the women to...
Nov 08, 2018