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Canada Summer jobs controversy fuels anti-abortion movement: activists
OTTAWA - Anti-abortion activists say the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s changes to the Canada Summer Jobs program has given added momentum to their cause. Thousands of d...
May 10, 2018
No armchair quarterbacks: Lethbridge police chief wants context of racist video
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A southern Alberta police chief is urging people not to leap to conclusions about how officers handled a racist confrontation at a local Denny’s last month. “It’s...
May 10, 2018
Placing live crabs on Toronto subway seats is a 'shellfish' act, TTC says
TORONTO - The Toronto Transit Commission is calling it a “shellfish” act. A picture posted on Facebook shows live crabs placed on seats on a Toronto subway car. The poster wrote that a man...
May 10, 2018
Bains describes being asked to remove turban by U.S. airport security
TORONTO - Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says he was asked to remove his turban during an “awkward” incident at a checkpoint in the Detroit airport a year ago and was only allowed to pr...
May 10, 2018
Freeland gets briefing from U.S. lawmakers on tight window for passing NAFTA
WASHINGTON - Canada’s foreign minister got a detailed explanation Thursday about why there might only be a few days left to get a NAFTA agreement in 2018. Chrystia Freeland attended a discussion...
May 10, 2018
B.C. report on wildfires, floods recommends new disaster management approach
VICTORIA - An independent review of British Columbia’s response to last year’s wildfires and flooding recommends fighting fire with fire to protect communities and future forests. The repo...
May 10, 2018
B.C. woman who abused sick senior in care home sentenced to 60 days in jail
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - A British Columbia caregiver who pleaded guilty to assaulting a partially paralyzed 88-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease has been sentenced to 60 days in j...
May 10, 2018
Rap video, social campaign targets teen pot smokers
LOS ANGELES - A new rap video aimed at Los Angeles-area teens depicts a common high school scene: young people hanging out at a party, empty beer cups strewn about and joints being fired up. But inste...
May 10, 2018
G7 plastics charter could be like Paris agreement for the oceans, says McKenna
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the plastics charter she is negotiating with other G7 nations ahead of next month’s leaders’ summit in Quebec could be billed as a Pari...
May 10, 2018
Alberta premier confident pipeline talks will succeed by May 31 deadline
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she’s confident talks aimed at getting construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion back on track will be successful before a May 31 deadli...
May 10, 2018