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Mandate letter results so far: Finance Minister Bill Morneau
OTTAWA - FINANCE Accomplished Finance Minister Bill Morneau cut federal income taxes on the middle bracket and raised the rate on income higher than $200,000 per year, cancelled an income-splitting me...
Nov 03, 2017
Mandate letter results so far: Families Minister Jean-Yves Duclos
OTTAWA - FAMILIES, CHILDREN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Accomplished Along with Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Families Minister Jean-Yves Duclos helped develop the Canada Child Benefit and return the age ...
Nov 03, 2017
Mandate letter results so far: Environment Minister Catherine McKenna
OTTAWA - ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE Accomplished Environment Minister Catherine McKenna helped bring about about the national agreement on climate change with emissions reduction targets and has c...
Nov 03, 2017
Police tweet beer photo to deter underage Halloween partiers
UPPER DARBY, Pa. - Police in Pennsylvania have tweeted a photo of a Halloween beer can costume to make underage revelers think officers would be staked out in disguises at parties. Upper Darby police ...
Nov 03, 2017
Mandate letter results so far: Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan
OTTAWA - DEFENCE Accomplished Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has knocked a number of items off his to-do list, most notably the release of a new defence policy that promises billions in new funds for ...
Nov 03, 2017
Mandate letters: Optimism turns to realism as Liberals mark two years in power
OTTAWA - When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau abandoned his promise to change the way Canadians vote in federal elections, he quietly changed some words in a mandate letter to the new minister in charge...
Nov 03, 2017
Adam Cohen on the 'sense of duty' in giving his father Leonard a proper sendoff
TORONTO - When Leonard Cohen died nearly a year ago, his son Adam was immediately pulled into a whirlwind of business responsibilities tied to the legacy of the poet laureate. Legal approvals loomed o...
Nov 03, 2017
'It's where I belong,' Canada's Rebecca Marino ready for return to tennis
TORONTO - The road back to tennis prominence will not be a glamorous one for Rebecca Marino and she’s just fine with that. Her comeback trail will include several stops at low-level tournaments,...
Nov 03, 2017
Animal cruelty charges dropped against Ontario veterinarian
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - All charges have been dropped against a St. Catharines, Ont., veterinarian who was facing 16 criminal counts of animal cruelty. Skyway Animal Hospital owner Dr. Mahavir Rekhi wa...
Nov 03, 2017
Girl, 11, hospitalized after eating Halloween candy that contained metal object
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - Police say an 11-year-old girl in southwestern Ontario has undergone surgery and remains in hospital after eating a piece of Halloween candy that contained a metal object. Waterloo r...
Nov 03, 2017