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Singer who drew fire at Mar-a-Lago competent to face trial
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Connecticut opera singer is now mentally competent to stand trial on charges that she sped through a checkpoint outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, drawing gu...
Feb 25, 2020

Privacy commissioner says RCMP ignored his investigators in complaint cases
OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog has accused the RCMP of ignoring his office's efforts to investigate complaints about the national police force's failure to respond to i...
Feb 25, 2020

Liberal MPs defer call for immediate blockade debate at committee
OTTAWA - Liberal MPs have temporarily thwarted an attempt by a Bloc Quebecois MP to immediately debate the "Indigenous crisis" involving rail and road blockades across the country at a Commons co...
Feb 25, 2020

Manitoba premier hints at possible carbon tax deal with federal government
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is hinting at a potential breakthrough with the federal government on a carbon tax. Pallister says federal and provincial senior officials have been in cons...
Feb 25, 2020

Private clinics would harm 'ordinary' people using public system in B.C.: lawyer
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for the British Columbia government says private clinics would increase wait lists for "ordinary" people in the public system and especially harm those who are...
Feb 25, 2020

Sen. Lynn Beyak apologizes for racist letters, says she'll obey ethics report
OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak sought to stave off suspension from the upper chamber today, apologizing unreservedly for posting offensive letters online and pledging to do more to show her contrition. Beya...
Feb 25, 2020

GPREP prepares for 2020, proposes change to bylaw
The Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership (GPREP) is continuing training and recruitment efforts, to ensure there are proper responses to large scale emergencies or disasters in the region. GP...
Feb 25, 2020 gprep.ca

Analysts agree Canadian energy projects more difficult to get to completion
CALGARY - The perception that Canada is a more difficult place to build major energy projects is accurate, according to U.S. analysts, although opposition to such projects is growing in both countries...
Feb 25, 2020

Six-time Canadian curling champion Jennifer Jones denied a seventh
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Jennifer Jones will have to wait for another chance to win a record seventh Canadian women's curling championship. The decorated skip believes she has the team and the time to ...
Feb 25, 2020

3 courts, 3 rulings: Carbon tax seen differently in different courts
EDMONTON - Legal experts say rulings from provincial Appeal Courts on the federal carbon tax aren't about the tax itself, but rather the government's legal grounds for it.The Alberta Court ruled on Mo...
Feb 25, 2020