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Better safeguards, compensation coming for residents of B.C. trailer parks
PENTICTON, B.C. - British Columbia wants to make it harder to evict trailer park residents and give them more protection from redevelopment under proposed legislative changes. The government also want...
Apr 3, 2018
Auditor again flags pension fund for military reservists as 'problematic'
OTTAWA - A pension fund for Canadian military reservists is once again being flagged by Canada’s auditor general as being “problematic.” In a recent commentary on the federal governm...
Apr 3, 2018
Transgender Day of Visibility event in Red Deer Saturday
Community advocates and allies will gather this weekend to mark the Transgender Day of Visibility. The day will be recognized in Red Deer for the second-straight year beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday with...
Apr 3, 2018
Many North Dakota GOP delegates repaying fees
BISMARCK, N.D. - “Dozens and dozens” of North Dakota Republican delegates have reimbursed the party for registration fees paid for them to attend this weekend’s state convention, the...
Apr 3, 2018
US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC
For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cel...
Apr 3, 2018
B.C. researcher's identification of scorpionfly shows Canada-Russia connection
VANCOUVER - It seems Canada and Russia have a prehistoric connection of the “beautiful” but “cockroachy” kind involving a 53-million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly...
Apr 3, 2018
Sealers' group calls for increased seal hunt - and even a possible cull
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Hungry East Coast seal populations have surged in recent decades, spurring calls for an increased seal hunt - and even a possible cull - to protect fragile caplin and northern...
Apr 3, 2018
A few quick facts about the next president of the CBC, Catherine Tait
OTTAWA - Some personal and professional details about Catherine Tait, the newly appointed president and chief executive of CBC/Radio-Canada. Age: 60 Education: Attended the University of Toronto for h...
Apr 3, 2018
City councillor wants Montreal police force to allow turbans and hijabs
MONTREAL - A longtime city councillor does not believe his call for the Montreal police force to allow officers to wear turbans and hijabs will reignite debate over the sensitive issue of reasonable a...
Apr 3, 2018
Relatives of woman, daughter killed in Calgary raise concerns about court delays
CALGARY - The family of a mother and daughter who were killed in Calgary nearly two years ago has raised concerns the case could be jeopardized by court delays. Scott Hamilton, a relative of Sara Bail...
Apr 3, 2018