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House of Commons adjourns for the summer after bitter spring session
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to return from his European trip but he won’t have to endure another grilling in the House of Commons for a while. All parties agreed late Tuesday night to end the most bitter spring sitting of Parliament since Harper’s Conservatives came to power more than seven years
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‘Shocking’ half of First Nations kids living in poverty, new study finds
TORONTO – Half of Canada’s First Nations children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics that pegs the cost of easing the problem at $580-million a year. The study by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives being released Wednesday also paints a grim picture of
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B.C. judge rules against First Nation, but encourages treaty talks
VANCOUVER – A B.C. Supreme Court justice has ruled against a Vancouver Island First Nation over the transfer of thousands of hectares of land. But a lawyer for the Kwakiutl (kwa-cue-tul) First Nation says the resulting decision could force the province to implement a treaty it should have honoured over 150 years ago. Justice Gordon
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Tory attacks on Trudeau boomerang, raise questions about PMO involvement
OTTAWA – Conservative attacks against Justin Trudeau’s paid public speaking career have boomeranged into questions about the propriety of using the Prime Minister’s Office to fire off purely partisan missiles. The tables have turned since the Barrie Advancer outed the PMO as the source of documents circulated to media Monday that showed three fundraising events
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Commons Speaker sends MP suspension question to committee
OTTAWA – Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer has handed a House committee the tricky question of whether two Tory MPs should be suspended over doubtful campaign spending. Scheer says it’s up to the committee on procedure and House affairs to decide if James Bezan and Shelly Glover should lose their MP privileges until their fight with
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Fast and curious driver caught going 221 km/h loses car, nets double the fine
COURTENAY, B.C. – A fast and curious driver caught going 221 kilometres an hour in his new Subaru 20R through Vancouver Island traffic has lost his vehicle for seven days and netted a hefty fine. Police say the posted speed limit on Highway 19 near Campbell River is 110 kilometres per hour. RCMP Const. John
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Canada’s eavesdropping agency helped spy on G20, documents suggest
OTTAWA – Leaked documents suggest Canada helped the United States and Britain spy on participants at the London G20 summit four years ago. Britain’s Guardian newspaper says spies monitored the computers and intercepted the phone calls of foreign politicians and officials at two G20 meetings in London in 2009. The paper says the effort included
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You can still send a telegram in 2013 but it’ll cost you, from $19 & up
TORONTO – Many Canadians would be surprised to learn that in this digital age of email and instant messaging you can still send an old-fashioned telegram. And the owner of Telegrams Canada, Colin Stone, says demand for the old-school service is steady, with about 20,000 messages being sent through his company each year. But before
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Embattled Montreal mayor to speak at 3:30 p.m., amid demands for resignation
MONTREAL – The brief, controversial mayoral career of Michael Applebaum could be over imminently. A city spokesman says the Montreal interim mayor will make a statement at 3:30 p.m. Speculation about his departure has been rampant since he was slapped yesterday with 14 criminal charges. The provincial government has explicitly urged him to resign. As
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Edmonton police issue Amber Alert for nine-month-old baby taken by mother
EDMONTON – Police in Edmonton have issued an Amber Alert for a nine-month-old baby girl they say has been abducted by her mother. They say they believe the mother is planning to leave Canada with the child and return to China. The mother is described as Chinese, five-feet-two inches tall, about 125 pounds and as
