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Cigarette packaging and Bill 21; In-The-News for Oct. 28

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. 15. What we are watching in Canada ... OT...

Oct 28, 2019

Paralyzed Humboldt Broncos hockey player to get spinal surgery in Thailand

CALGARY - A hockey player paralyzed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash is to depart on a 12,000-kilometre journey to Thailand later this week for surgery that could help restore some of his m...

Oct 28, 2019

Protesters against Quebec's secularism law say they're not giving up

MONTREAL - Protesters against Quebec's secularism law say they aren't giving up the fight to overturn Bill 21. About 200 of them braved the cold rain and gathered in Montreal's Parc-Extension nei...

Oct 27, 2019

Activist Greta Thunberg says adults must protect kids from climate change

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg says those in power need to realize what they are doing to future generations through climate change because if adults really loved children, they...

Oct 27, 2019

N.S. government to return to talks with Crowns, as controversial law paused

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Liberal government held off Friday on enacting legislation that would have put striking Crowns back to work, promising to return to talks in ...

Oct 27, 2019

Planned event reignites debate about libraries' role as forum for free speech

TORONTO - An event featuring a self-described feminist speaker known for saying transgender rights endanger women has reignited an old debate about the role of public libraries as forum...

Oct 27, 2019

Refugee guilty of attempting to murder Edmonton police officer, 4 pedestrians

EDMONTON - A Somali refugee has been found guilty of trying to kill a policeman outside a football game as well as four pedestrians who were struck with a U-Haul van - an attack originally investigate...

Oct 27, 2019

Quebec municipal police forces call for $788 million to address funding gap

LAVAL, Que. - Quebec's federation of municipal police forces is asking the provincial government for $788 million to address what they describe as a funding gap between their ...

Oct 27, 2019

Calgary mayor, former Alberta premier willing to help PM bridge western divide

OTTAWA - Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi says speculation about him being appointed as a representative or adviser for Alberta in federal cabinet is "silly," but adds he is willing to help bridge the divi...

Oct 27, 2019

Oilsands part of second U.S. fraud lawsuit against Exxon over carbon pricing

There is a second fraud lawsuit in the United States against ExxonMobil involving Alberta's oilsands. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by the state of Massachusetts, accuses the oil multinational o...

Oct 27, 2019