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OTTAWA - The Liberals are paving the road to the next election with a mid-mandate budget focused on fulfilling some on-brand promises, while potentially saving room for flashier, big-ticket items that...
rdnews@socastdigital.com Feb 26, 2018
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government committed late Monday to releasing a report into how child welfare workers dealt with Tina Fontaine before the teenager disappeared, died and was dumped in the Red R...
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CALGARY - In the afterglow of Team Canada’s impressive hardware haul at the Pyeongchang Olympics, Calgary’s mayor says hard evidence and not warm, fuzzy emotions should drive the debate ov...
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OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said science, gender equality and preparing Canadians for the jobs of the future will be key themes in Tuesday’s federal budget. Here are some more det...
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OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says if his party forms government in 2019, it will follow Donald Trump’s lead and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Scheer’s declara...
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OTTAWA - Tuesday’s federal budget is expected to detail how the Liberal government will financially manage their planned increase in immigration over the next three years. The Liberals last fall...
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VANCOUVER - A port worker says he suspected large plumes of oil that were shining on the surface of the water in Vancouver’s harbour nearly three years ago was bunker fuel, based on the smell. A...
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Toronto journalist Tanya Talaga won the $30,000 RBC Taylor Prize on Monday and dedicated her speech to the subjects of the book she wishes she “did not have to write” - seven Indigenous yo...
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HALIFAX - Police say they have no evidence to support allegations published on a Lebanese website of a “heinous crime” in the death of a Lebanese Canadian student at Saint Mary’s Uni...
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WOLFVILLE, N.S. - Acadia University has launched a formal investigation into complaints against a professor over controversial comments he made on social media and in the classroom. Heather Hemming, v...
rdnews@socastdigital.com Feb 26, 2018