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Environment minister restores federal assessment of Alberta coal mine
Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has reinstated his decision to subject a thermal coal mine expansion in Alberta to a federal review. Wilkinson said in July 2020 that the Vista project ...
Oct 01, 2021

Quebec to move ahead with plan to redistribute $39 million to Lac-Mégantic victims
LAC-MGANTIC, Que. - The Quebec government is moving ahead with plans to redistribute $39 million to those impacted by the 2013 rail disaster in Lac-Mgantic, Que., that killed 47 people. About $20 mill...
Oct 01, 2021

CP NewsAlert: Quebec coroner urges Quebec to recognize systemic racism
MONTREAL - The coroner who investigated the death of Joyce Echaquan says the Quebec government should recognize the existence of systemic racism and make a commitment to rooting it out of institutions...
Oct 01, 2021

Quebec watchdog probes fatal police shooting of man in Laurentians
SAINTE-ADLE, Que. - Quebec's police watchdog is probing the death of a man shot by provincial police in Ste-Adle, north of Montreal. According to preliminary information, provincial police were called...
Oct 01, 2021

Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for COVID, has no symptoms
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19. The high court said in a press release Friday that Kavanaugh has no symptoms and has been fully vacci...
Oct 01, 2021

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Statistics Canada says GDP fell 0.1 per cent in July
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product was down 0.1 per cent in July. The agency's initial estimate for July had been for a contraction of 0.4 per cent. Its initial estimate for A...
Oct 01, 2021

Fire in Romanian hospital kills at least 9 people
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A fire at a hospital in the Romanian port city of Constanta killed at least nine COVID-19 patients, authorities said Friday. All the victims were in the intensive care unit o...
Oct 01, 2021

Quebec's overhaul of its strict French-language law under microscope at hearings
MONTREAL - Quebec's proposed overhaul of its French-language charter is under the microscope at legislative hearings, with participants this week raising concerns about the bill's effect on English sp...
Oct 01, 2021

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and market jitters : In The News for Oct. 1
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 Oct. 1 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Oct 01, 2021

Former fashion leader Peter Nygard's extradition hearing on U.S. sex charges to begin
WINNIPEG - An extradition hearing for a former Canadian fashion mogul facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the United States is to begin today. Peter Nygard, who is 80, was arrested in W...
Oct 01, 2021