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MPs to gather for first time both virtually and in-person in the Commons
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament will make history today as a few dozen of them gather in the House of Commons where they'll be joined by the other 300-odd MPs participating via videoconferenc...
May 27, 2020
Quebec plan to review status for asylum seekers working in care homes questioned
Quebec Premier Francois Legault's promise to review the status of asylum seekers working in long-term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic raises more questions than it answers, advocates...
May 27, 2020
A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown
Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: Newfoundland and Labrador ...
May 27, 2020
'Disturbing' long-term care home report doesn't come as surprise to families
Simon Nisbet is convinced that if he hadn't moved his mother out of her long-term care home, she would never have left alive. He said daily visits to her window at Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ont., le...
May 27, 2020
Global pandemic: Through the eyes of the world's children
CHICAGO - These are children of the global pandemic. In the far-north Canadian town of Iqaluit, one boy has been glued to the news to learn everything he can about the coronavirus. A girl in Australia...
May 26, 2020
Japan police arrest man in Kyoto anime arson that killed 36
TOKYO - Japanese police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the deadly arson at a Kyoto anime studio last year after he recovered enough from his own severe burns to respond to the police investigation...
May 26, 2020
Wet weather interrupting MD of Greenview fieldwork
Seeding progress in the MD of Greenview has been "very slow," according to Reeve Dale Smith.Smith estimates less than 30 per cent has been seeded, with some individual producers at zero and some at 30...
May 26, 2020
Alberta legislature returns Wednesday for spring sitting
EDMONTON - Alberta politicians are heading back to the legislature this week and will sit until late July.The house will be debating 10 bills while continuing physical distancing and dealing with the ...
May 26, 2020
Kansas governor vetoes limits on her power but loosens rules
TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas' Democratic governor on Tuesday vetoed a sweeping Republican coronavirus measure that would have limited her power to direct the state's pandemic response but then ceded to local...
May 26, 2020
Canada outspends Ireland, Norway in new pledging on Venezuelan refugee crisis
OTTAWA - Canada outbid its two rivals for the United Nations Security Council at Tuesday's international pledging conference to help South American countries coping with the Venezuelan refug...
May 26, 2020