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Trudeau says Saskatchewan to get carbon rebates despite province not paying levies

Trudeau says Saskatchewan to get carbon rebates despite province not paying levies

Saskatchewan Apr 23, 2024 / 1:36 pm

UPDATE 1:35 p.m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan residents will continue to get carbon rebates even though the province has stopped remitting...

Zameer acquittal demonstrates why politicians should keep quiet on bail, lawyer says

Zameer acquittal demonstrates why politicians should keep quiet on bail, lawyer says

Ontario Apr 23, 2024 / 1:31 pm

A leading voice for criminal lawyers in Canada says police and political leaders need to learn the consequences of weighing in on bail decisions. And Boris...

Plastic treaty talks in Ottawa get underway with pleas for high ambition, flexibility

Plastic treaty talks in Ottawa get underway with pleas for high ambition, flexibility

Ottawa Apr 23, 2024 / 11:25 am

The Ecuadorean diplomat tasked with shepherding the fourth round of talks for a global plastic treaty in Ottawa this week says the world cannot wait much longer...

RCMP alleges two former UN workers in Montreal sold weapons, drones to Libya

RCMP alleges two former UN workers in Montreal sold weapons, drones to Libya

Montreal Apr 23, 2024 / 6:44 am

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged after they allegedly took part in a conspiracy to...

Doctors ask Liberal government to reconsider capital gains tax change

Doctors ask Liberal government to reconsider capital gains tax change

Apr 23, 2024 / 5:43 am

The Canadian Medical Association is asking the federal government to reconsider its proposed changes to capital gains taxation, arguing it will affect...

Large study shows caribou herds in Alberta, B.C., growing from wolf culls, cow pens

Large study shows caribou herds in Alberta, B.C., growing from wolf culls, cow pens

Apr 23, 2024 / 5:40 am

Fresh research suggests western Canada's once-dwindling caribou numbers are finally growing. But the same paper concludes the biggest reason for the rebound...

Labour minister announces inquiry into costly 2023 port strike in B.C.

Labour minister announces inquiry into costly 2023 port strike in B.C.

Apr 22, 2024 / 4:08 pm

Federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says he has appointed an Industrial Inquiry Commission to dig deeper into the underlying causes of B.C.'s port...

Is decaf coffee bad for your health? Here’s what to know

Is decaf coffee bad for your health? Here’s what to know

Apr 22, 2024 / 3:06 pm

If you enjoy the taste of coffee but don’t want caffeine’s side effects, decaffeinated coffee with 97 per cent of the stimulant removed is an...

Ex-RCMP officer charged in Quebec with foreign interference seeks to quash charges

Ex-RCMP officer charged in Quebec with foreign interference seeks to quash charges

Apr 22, 2024 / 1:54 pm

A retired RCMP officer charged with helping China conduct foreign interference asked a Quebec court judge on Monday to quash an indictment against him because...

Singh noncommittal on keeping scheduled increases to Liberals' carbon price in place

Singh noncommittal on keeping scheduled increases to Liberals' carbon price in place

Apr 22, 2024 / 1:33 pm

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is raising eyebrows anew over his carbon pricing stance, refusing to say today whether or not he would keep scheduled increases in...

Consciousness a 'realistic possibility' in birds, fish, squid and bees, scholars say

Consciousness a 'realistic possibility' in birds, fish, squid and bees, scholars say

Apr 22, 2024 / 11:33 am

Biologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers across the globe say there is a reasonable possibility the vast majority of creatures on Earth are sentient in...

Feds don't 'care if they die,' says lawyer helping Canadian children held in Syria

Feds don't 'care if they die,' says lawyer helping Canadian children held in Syria

Syria Apr 22, 2024 / 11:19 am

Five Canadian children are languishing in a squalid detention camp in northeastern Syria after Ottawa denied their mothers permission to come to Canada, says a...

Wrong body returned from Cuba to Quebec family after father dies on vacation

Wrong body returned from Cuba to Quebec family after father dies on vacation

Cuba/Canada Apr 22, 2024 / 11:18 am

A Montreal-area woman is asking Canadian authorities to help locate her father's body in Cuba after a devastating mix-up that saw her family receive a...

Ottawa spent $2.2-million fighting emergencies act court challenge on convoy protest

Ottawa spent $2.2-million fighting emergencies act court challenge on convoy protest

Apr 22, 2024 / 10:58 am

Ottawa says it spent more than $2.2-million unsuccessfully fighting a court challenge to its decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to quell the truckers’...

Quebec Health Department reports 28 cases of eye damage linked to solar eclipse

Quebec Health Department reports 28 cases of eye damage linked to solar eclipse

Quebec Apr 22, 2024 / 10:27 am

Quebec's Health Department says it has received 28 reports of eye damage related to the April 8 total solar eclipse that passed over southern parts of the...

Can Canada have an effective climate action policy without a carbon tax?

Can Canada have an effective climate action policy without a carbon tax?

Apr 22, 2024 / 10:04 am

Eight years ago, Mark Jaccard, a sustainable energy economist at Simon Fraser University, co-authored a paper that warned of the “severe political...

Canada to force plastic makers to report how much they make, reuse and recycle

Canada to force plastic makers to report how much they make, reuse and recycle

Apr 22, 2024 / 9:50 am

Canada is seeking to get a better handle on how much plastic is being produced in the country by forcing companies that make it to report annually on what they...

Trudeau, Poilievre condemn chant on Parliament Hill glorifying Hamas attack on Israel

Trudeau, Poilievre condemn chant on Parliament Hill glorifying Hamas attack on Israel

Apr 22, 2024 / 9:47 am

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is condemning a weekend protest on Parliament Hill where a participant openly supported the Hamas attack on Israel last fall....

First Nations patients more likely to leave ER without care, study says

First Nations patients more likely to leave ER without care, study says

Alberta Apr 22, 2024 / 5:45 am

Researchers say First Nations patients are more likely to leave Alberta emergency departments before receiving care than non-Indigenous patients. They say a new...

Deal to protect ranch from development means family can keep raising cattle there

Deal to protect ranch from development means family can keep raising cattle there

Alberta Apr 22, 2024 / 1:00 am

An agreement to protect a sprawling ranch in southern Alberta from development is the largest of its kind in the country, the Nature Conservancy of Canada says,...

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