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CALGARY - The head of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. has joined growing calls for the federal government to step into the dispute between Alberta and British Columbia over oil exports. Ian Anderson said We...
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WINNIPEG - A Manitoba government backbencher is apologizing after calling asylum seekers a “drain on society” on Twitter and for retweeting posts that suggested Prime Minister Justin Trude...
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WASHINGTON - The United States is stressing its support for renegotiating a three-country NAFTA agreement after comments from an American lawmaker suggesting it was considering splitting Canada and Me...
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OTTAWA - Federal officials are promising tighter enforcement of laws to protect species at risk after a pair of studies found little change in the status of threatened plants and animals. “We ne...
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The weekend police killing of a young man and the death of an ailing older woman after her arrest has sparked grief and anger among Indigenous people in northern Ontario. Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of ...
rdnews@socastdigital.com Feb 07, 2018
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Police say a Western Canadian couple who were found dead in a Saint John, N.B., hotel room almost a year ago were the victims of a murder-suicide. The bodies of the 26-year-old male...
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EDMONTON - Spear-hunting is being banned in Alberta following outcry after a viral video showed an American hunter killing a black bear with a spear. The province has updated hunting rules to ensure b...
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OTTAWA - People shouldn’t “jump to conclusions” about when they’ll be able to buy marijuana legally, as a key federal bill makes its way through Parliament, Public Safety Minis...
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put Justice Department lawyers on notice Wednesday for their response to a proposed class-action lawsuit on military sexual misconduct, saying their arguments ar...
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MONTREAL - A disturbing cellphone video that allegedly captures a Montreal police intervention prior to the fatal shooting of a black man last June reveals officers used disproportionate force, lawyer...
rdnews@socastdigital.com Feb 07, 2018