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RCI English section: goodbye from 2021-05-14T13:36:51
Canada's international broadcast service from the English language team of Radio Canada International has come to an end. RCI, (originally the International Service, CBC-IS) was initially created ...
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Exercising could help in pandemic but stress, anxiety a barrier from 2021-04-12T17:44:46
Researchers at McMaster University say that the COVID-19 pandemic “has created a paradox where mental health has become both a motivator for and a barrier to physical activity.” A study was done ...
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Pioneering hospital celebrates medical milestones from 2021-03-31T14:21:12
The Montreal General Hospital was founded in 1821 and is famous for many medical firsts including the fact that its founding doctors established Canada’s first faculty of medicine program at McGill...
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Report shows residential school victims received about $3B in compensation from 2021-03-12T12:07:36
The cost of compensating victims of Canada's now-infamous residential school system was over $3 billion, according to a final report released Thursday by Parliament's Independent Assessment Process...
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New report provides numbers on how much food is wasted in Canada from 2021-03-06T17:15:17
A new United Nations report puts some numbers on the amount of food that goes to waste in Canada. The report, from the United Nations Environment Programme relies mainly on a 2019 study by Environ...
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Justin Clark, a man of extraordinary perseverance and courage, dies at 58 from 2021-02-27T17:00:25
Justin Clark, a man who never learned to take no for an answer, died Thursday at the age of 58. Born in 1962 with cerebral palsy, unable to walk or talk, he leaves a legacy few Canadians will eve...
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CETA trade deal: Three years later, Canadian agriculture still dissatisfied from 2020-09-30T19:15:51
In 2017 the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement was negotiated and signed into force with great satisfaction by Canada's Trudeau government to improve trade between Canada nad the European Union...
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Canada pushes former finance minister for top OECD position from 2020-09-28T14:30:53
Canada's Bill Morneau, had been a confidant and advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since the Liberals came to power in 2015. He had also held the very important portfolio of finance minister...
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Canada History: Sept. 18, 1936–The fastest steam locomotive from 2020-09-18T19:21:08
No sooner had man invented motive power, than the quest began for who could achieve the fastest speed, on land, in the air, and on water. When it came to railways, Canada briefly was in world reco...
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Canada history: Aug 31,1993: Canada’s military bids farewell to Germany from 2020-08-31T19:36:42
Canadian Forces Europe (CFE) ends On this date the last of Canada's military forces said goodbye to their home away home in southern Germany. CFB Baden-Soellingen, and CFB Lahr had been the site of...
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Joe Norton, a no-nonsense down-to-earth Indigenous leader, is dead at 70 from 2020-08-18T12:00:19
Joseph Tokwiroh Norton, a straight-talking, no-nonsense, down-to earth man who spent much of his life fighting for the rights of members of the Mohawk Nation and other Indigenious people in Canada,...
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Coalition group outlines plan to cut Montreal police budget from 2020-07-08T18:26:33
A coalition of over 20 community groups in Montreal have released an outline of 10 demands to slice the budget of Montreal’s police force in half and reinvest that money into community programs, du...
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Tension as migrants mass at Greek border from 2020-03-05T18:09:08
Turkey has said it can no longer support the mass influx of migrants from Syria and elsewhere.It says it will no longer keep them from attempting to cross into Greece and Bulgaria as they seek to h...
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Federal politician takes the gun licence course from 2020-03-03T17:20:47
In Canada where the often bitterly heated debate about firearms has been raging on and off for decades, a federal politician decided he needed to be informed by fact, not opinion. Tako Van Popta i...
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Natural gas pipeline and blockades divide Canadians from 2020-02-27T17:13
The construction of a natural gas pipeline across northern British Columbia has divided Canadian opinion. A small group of hereditary Wet’suwet’en chiefs and supporters has opposed the project, w...
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Burkina Faso faces ‘astounding’ displacement crisis: report from 2020-02-11T20:24:28
Burkina Faso is facing one of the world’s fastest growing displacement crises threatening to engulf the entire West African country and spill over into neighbouring Ghana, Benin, Togo, and Cote d’I...
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Officials say 63 Canadians among those killed in Tehran plane crash from 2020-01-08T16:10:33
Ukraine's foreign minister says 63 Canadians were among the 176 people killed when a Ukraine International Airlines passenger plane crashed just minutes after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini...
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Refugee advocacy group sounds the alarm on crisis in Mali from 2019-12-17T22:21:51
Mali is on a perilous course, says Alexandra Lamarche. Nearly eight years after the onset of crisis in the West African country, the international community remains heavily focused on stabilizatio...
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GTA immigrants have trouble climbing corporate ladder: report from 2019-12-02T20:30:04
While many immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area have made great strides in landing their first job in Canada, very few of them make it to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, according to a n...
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Canadian charity teams up with egg farmers to care for African orphans from 2019-11-07T20:35:55
Janine and Ian Maxwell want your money. Not all of it… But as much as you can spare to help them care for more than 250 orphans and abandoned babies at their orphanage in Eswatini (formerly known ...
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Conservation group exposes widespread seafood fraud in Canada from 2019-10-16T19:10:59
A Canadian ocean conservation group is renewing its calls on the federal government to clamp down on seafood mislabelling, saying its latest investigation provides mounting evidence of a widespread...
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Kremlin disinformation campaigns could target Canada’s federal election: expert from 2019-09-12T20:25:28
As the federal election campaign picks up steam, federal officials should be ready to counter possible Russian disinformation campaigns targeting Canadians, says a Russian expert. Sergey Sukhankin...
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Meet the trailblazing female Canadian general bound for Iraq from 2019-08-27T21:55:24
In 1986, Jennie Carignan was a bored teenager looking to do something challenging with her life. So she decided to join the Canadian Armed Forces and enroll at the Royal Military College of Canada...
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Canadian woman makes NATO maritime history from 2019-07-31T19:25:05
A female Royal Canadian Navy officer has made NATO maritime history by becoming the first woman to command a multinational naval task force in one of the alliance’s most sensitive areas of maritime...
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Manhunt for fugitive teens shifts to another isolated Manitoba community from 2019-07-29T14:27:33
Heavily armed police officers are combing through the bush and swamps surrounding the remote Indigenous community of York Landing in northern Manitoba, following a reported sighting of two teenage ...
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Canada ratifies UN agreement to deny safe haven to illegal fishing vessels from 2019-07-19T16:12:47
Canada has become the latest country to ratify a UN treaty that seeks to combat the global illegal fishing industry by denying port access to fishing vessels engaged in the multibillion illicit tra...
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Best defence against Russian interference is free press, says NATO head from 2019-07-15T17:53:42
While NATO allies have beefed up their cyber defences, the best guaranty of safeguarding Canada’s upcoming federal elections against possible Russian interference is the country’s free and independ...
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Canada adds 2 far-right groups to its terror list from 2019-06-26T19:20:26
The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has added two international neo-Nazi groups to Canada's list of outlawed terrorist organizations as part of new measures to combat online hat...
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Washington and Tehran at impasse as Trump threatens Iran with ‘obliteration’ from 2019-06-25T20:11:58
Washington and Tehran have reached a dangerous impasse as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to obliterate parts of Iran if it attacked “anything American,” with Iranian officials ca...
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Rights group welcomes Canada’s new guidelines to support human rights defenders from 2019-06-18T20:34:52
Human rights activists in Canada say they welcome new guidelines for Canadian diplomats working abroad aimed at enabling the work of human rights defenders around the world by ensuring their safety...
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‘Cold, dark and dangerous’ but the Arctic and space bring out the best in humanity: study from 2019-06-13T21:16:32
When faced with an existential threat, the humanity will rally together despite geopolitical rivalries and political tensions between superpowers. That’s the main lesson of a comparative study pub...
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Ocean warming may reduce sea life by 17%, study finds from 2019-06-12T19:30:44
The world’s oceans could lose nearly one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century if global warming continues on its current path, a new study says. Every degree Celsius...
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Rights groups sound alarm over‘neglected’Cameroon crisis from 2019-06-05T20:46:24
Human rights groups are sounding the alarm over the world’s “most neglected displacement crisis” unfolding in western Cameroon, where government forces and pro-government militias are locked in a d...
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Trudeau accepts the finding of genocide in deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls from 2019-06-04T19:28:20
The Liberal government accepts the finding of a national commission of inquiry that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls across Canada in recent decades amount to an act of"...
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Permafrost degradation spreads in High Arctic from 2019-05-24T18:14:40
Polar deserts in Canada’s High Arctic are undergoing rapid changes as increases in summer air temperatures lead to permafrost thaw, leaving giant horseshoe-shaped pockmarks on the barren terrain, a...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exonerates Chief Poundmaker, apologizes for conviction from 2019-05-23T20:33:17
It took the federal government 134 years but on Thursday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally exonerated a Saskatchewan chief of treason and apologized for the conviction of the Indigenous leader ...
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Arctic underwater forests set to expand with rapid warming from 2019-05-17T20:06:19
While much of the world attention has been focused on rapid sea ice reduction in the Arctic, the changes underneath the receding ice in parts of the Arctic Ocean have been no less dramatic, accordi...
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UN agency asks for international support to fight Ebola from 2019-04-25T21:32:26
As the Democratic Republic of Congo grapples with the second largest ever Ebola outbreak, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is appealing to Canada and other donors to step up their contributions to...
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Canadians strongly support nature conservation: poll from 2019-04-23T19:47:20
An overwhelming majority of Canadians supports the federal government’s commitment to set aside at least 17 per cent of Canada’s lands and inland waters as protected conservation areas by 2020, acc...
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Alberta to repeal carbon tax and press on pipelines, says incoming premier from 2019-04-18T18:40:08
Alberta premier-designate Jason Kenney says he’ll move fast to repeal the carbon tax legislation adopted by the previous centre-left New Democratic Party government and jump-start stalled pipeline ...
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Alberta elects United Conservative Party government from 2019-04-17T17:02:38
Alberta woke up to a new centre-right government today after voters in the oil-rich Western Canadian province that has fallen on hard times recently delivered a landslide victory to the United Cons...
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New superbug yeast infection puzzles and worries researchers from 2019-04-12T21:30:51
A hardy yeast infection has researchers in Canada and around the world worried about the rise of a new generation of drug resistant superbugs. There are fewer than 20 documented cases in Canada so...
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Humanitarian groups urge Canadians to donate to Cyclone Idai relief fund from 2019-04-11T21:30:45
A coalition of Canadian humanitarian groups is urging Canadians to show their generousity and donate to a federal matching fund for relief efforts in three southern African countries hit by Tropica...
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Canadian jihadists are distinct from other Islamist radicals, study finds from 2019-04-10T21:12:51
Canadians jihadists who left the country to fight for ISIS or Al-Qaeda and its offshoots in the Middle East are distinct from other radical Islamists and may be more amenable to rehabilitation and ...
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Conservation group calls for more research into effects of Nunavut mine shipping noise on narwhal from 2019-04-08T20:02:46
A Canadian conservation group says more research into the impact of vessel traffic on narwhal and other marine life is needed before a regulator in the Arctic territory of Nunavut allows a mining c...
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Canada ‘very concerned’ about foreign meddling, says Chrystia Freeland from 2019-04-05T18:16:58
Interference by foreign “malign actors” in the upcoming federal election in Canada “is very likely,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday. “We're, we are very concerned. I think...
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Former justice minister ejected out of Liberal caucus as new documents poke holes in her story from 2019-04-02T21:01:24
Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould was booted out of the Liberal caucus Tuesday despite writing a passionate plea to her party colleagues defending her stance in a political scandal that ...
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‘We’re up here!’ says Nunavut premier as territory celebrates 20th anniversary from 2019-04-01T19:44:01
As Nunavut celebrates the 20th anniversary of becoming Canada’s northernmost territory, Premier Joe Savikataaq says he wants people in the rest of the country and outside its borders to remember th...
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White supremacism and Islamophobia are ‘gravest threats,’ Freeland tells UN from 2019-03-28T20:24:08
White supremacism and Islamophobia are among “the gravest threats” facing the world, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told the United Nations Thursday. The terrorist attack in C...
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Chinese officials pressured Canadian university to cancel event with Uighur activist from 2019-03-27T21:21:55
Chinese officials pressured a Montreal-based human rights research institute affiliated with Concordia University to cancel a conference featuring a prominent exiled Uighur leader, says one of the ...
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Canada grants asylum to one of Edward Snowden’s ‘angels’ from 2019-03-25T20:38:36
A Filipino woman and her daughter who sheltered U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden while he went into hiding in Hong Kong in 2013 boarded a plane to Toronto Monday after Canada granted them asylum, ...
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Sting performs for Oshawa GM workers facing layoffs from 2019-02-14T22:10:20
British rock star Sting performed a live concert on Thursday as a “gesture of solidarity” with General Motors workers facing layoffs in Oshawa, Ontario. Thousands of people filled Oshawa’s Tribute...
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Canada pledges $53M for those affected by Venezuela crisis from 2019-02-04T19:22:13
Canada will provide $53 million in aid to help those most affected by the Venezuelan crisis, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday as he hosted a meeting of nearly dozen countries opposed ...
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Most Canadians dissatisfied with Trudeau’s handling of row with China: poll from 2019-02-01T22:29:08
Slightly more than half of Canadians (52 per cent) say they are dissatisfied with the way Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government have handled the diplomatic crisis with China that...
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Liberals deny overpaying for Trans Mountain pipeline project from 2019-01-31T23:19:22
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau is denying suggestions by the Parliamentary Budget Officer that the Liberal government may have paid too much to acquire the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP) and ...
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Ottawa unveils new measures to combat election interference from 2019-01-30T19:26:54
With nine month to go until Canadians head to polls to elect the next federal government, Ottawa unveiled a series of new measures aimed at further beefing up Canada's electoral system against fore...
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Canadian police charge youth with terror-related offence from 2019-01-25T21:06:20
National security investigators from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have arrested and charged a youth in Kingston, Ontario, with a terrorism-related offence, Canada’s national police forc...
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U.S. study gives Canada top points for attracting highly skilled immigrants from 2019-01-24T18:00:26
Canada scored high in many categories in a recently released survey of 12 countries comparing attitudes towards attracting highly skilled immigrants. Canada is in the first place when it comes to ...
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Huawei executive has strong defence to fight extradition to U.S., says envoy from 2019-01-23T16:54:23
Canada’s opposition leader is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fire the country’s ambassador in China over comments he made regarding the case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to Canadia...
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Canada’s new food guide stresses importance of eating plant-based foods from 2019-01-22T17:04:36
Eat vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods and protein foods often, cut out processed meats and foods that contain mostly saturated fat and plenty of sugar. Drink plenty of water. Cook at home an...
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Trudeau urges Liberals to campaign on ‘hopeful’ vision of Canada from 2019-01-21T20:55:48
With the world increasingly in turmoil – politically, economically and environmentally – Canada needs to remain an oasis of hope, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday at the opening of a two-d...
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Canadian missing in Burkina Faso is still alive, says Trudeau from 2019-01-18T21:47:44
A Quebec woman who went missing in Burkina Faso in mid-December is in all likelihood still alive, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday at the conclusion of a cabinet retreat in Sherbrooke, Que...
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Canadian frigate heading home after 6-month deployment from 2019-01-16T23:33:23
HMCS Ville de Québec is finally heading home after having spent nearly six months at sea in support of NATO operations in the Mediterranean and Northern Atlantic. The Canadian frigate deployed fro...
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Saudi teen vows to fight for women’s rights, pleads for privacy from 2019-01-15T17:47:49
Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun who was granted asylum in Canada after fleeing from her allegedly abusive family pledged on Tuesday to fight for the freedom of other less fortunate women in a pu...
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Toxic brine from desalination plants threatens marine environments, UN report from 2019-01-14T23:03:51
Millions of cubic metres of chemical laden brine produced daily by thousands of desalination plants worldwide threaten marine environments and ecosystems, according to a new UN study conducted in C...
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Canadian officials meet with detained former diplomat in China from 2019-01-10T21:59:37
Canadian diplomats in China visited for the second time on Thursday one of their former colleagues detained by Chinese security services following the arrest in Canada of a top Chinese telecom exec...
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Canada introduces new drone regulations from 2019-01-09T21:36:46
The federal government has adopted tough new regulations for the use of drones in Canadian airspace, banning drone flights near airports and emergency scenes, as well as operating them while drunk ...
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Pipeline protesters delay Trudeau speech from 2019-01-08T22:22:43
Dozens of drumming and chanting protesters delayed on Tuesday a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a forum dedicated to relations between Canada’s Indigenous communities and the federal gov...
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Canadian fighter jets intercept Russian Su-27 off Romania’s coast from 2018-12-21T23:52:17
A pair of Canadian CF-18 Hornets had a close but polite encounter in October with a Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jet in the international airspace off Romania’s Black Sea coast, according to the C...
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Canada is unlikely to help UN food agency in Palestine, says Bibeau from 2018-12-20T23:26:06
Ottawa would be hard-pressed to step in and help fill part of a funding shortage that has forced the United Nations to scale back its support programs to vulnerable families in Palestine, says Cana...
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Cruise missiles, drones and hypersonic weapons: NORAD gets ready for new threats from 2018-12-18T23:47:04
As the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) turns 61, it is preparing to confront new threats that include a new generation of long-range and more accurate Russian cruise missiles, hype...
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Canada to force airlines to compensate passengers for delays, overbooking from 2018-12-17T18:19:55
Canadian passengers who face flight delays or are bumped from their seat due to overbooking will be eligible for compensation under the federal government’s new proposed regulations for air travel....
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Canadian officials met with detained Canadian in China from 2018-12-14T16:45:26
Canadian officials confirmed Friday that they were granted consular access to former Canadian diplomat detained in China on Monday on suspicion of"endangering national security.""Today, Canada was ...
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China cites ‘national security’ for detaining 2 Canadians from 2018-12-13T20:00:15
Chinese authorities had to take"compulsory measures"against two Canadian citizens suspected of"endangering national security,"China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday. China-based social entrepreneu...
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Ottawa lost contact with another Canadian in China, says Freeland from 2018-12-12T22:58:16
A second Canadian might have also been nabbed by Chinese authorities, Canadian officials said Wednesday as they confirmed that a Canadian diplomat on temporary leave to work for an international no...
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Ottawa ‘deeply concerned’ by arrest of former Canadian diplomat in China from 2018-12-11T19:18:36
Canadian officials are “sparing no effort” to find out what has happened with a former Canadian diplomat and an expert on North East Asia for International Crisis Group, who was arrested in China, ...
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‘We trust our courts,’ Trudeau tells China from 2018-12-10T23:29:57
Canada is a country of law and there will be no political interference by the federal government to secure the release of a highflying Chinese telecom executive arrested by Canadian officials upon ...
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NGOs warn of ‘catastrophic’ famine in Yemen from 2018-12-07T00:45
As delegates from Yemen’s warring parties meet in Sweden for talks to find a solution to the conflict that has ravaged the country for nearly four years, international NGOs are sounding the alarm o...
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Alberta orders 8.7% oil production cut from 2018-12-03T20:39:25
Premier Rachel Notley is ordering Alberta’s oil industry to cut production by 8.7 per cent, saying the measure is needed to end “the economic and fiscal insanity” of selling Albertan crude at steep...
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Canada, Mexico and U.S. sign new trade deal from 2018-11-30T23:26:39
Canada, the United States and Mexico signed a renewed North American free trade pact on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires Friday that once ratified by the legislatures in all three co...
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Investors urge G20 countries to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 from 2018-11-30T00:12:25
As world leaders gather in Buenos Aires for their annual summit, a group of nine international investors with nearly a trillion dollars in assets under management between them is urging the G20 cou...
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Canada pledges to advance ocean science and develop ‘blue economy’ from 2018-11-28T21:58:06
Canada is pledging $10.5 million to a United Nations initiative to advance our understanding of oceans and preserve their health, and develop a sustainable “blue economy,” harnessing the potential ...
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Humanitarian groups warn of growing attacks on schools in Afghanistan from 2018-11-27T22:55:28
A global coalition of NGOs working to advance education of children in conflict zones says recent gains in expanding access to education that have allowed millions of Afghan boys and girls to enrol...
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Trudeau faces tough job at G20 summit in Argentina, says expert from 2018-11-26T21:34:09
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces a tough sales job as he tries to rally world leaders gathering in Buenos Aires on Friday to support Canada’s priorities of advancing gender equality, fighting cl...
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Liberals respond to Trump tax cuts with new incentives for Canadian businesses from 2018-11-22T20:11:02
The Liberal government says it is ready to spend billions to help Canadian companies compete with their U.S. counterparts. In his fall fiscal update delivered Wednesday, Finance Minister Bill Morn...
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Environmental and Indigenous groups welcome IMO progress towards Arctic dirty fuel ban from 2018-10-26T21:05:39
Environmental and Indigenous groups hailed Friday progress made by the world maritime body towards developing a ban on the use and carriage of the highly polluting heavy fuel oil in Arctic waters. ...
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Lockheed Martin selected as preferred designer for Canada’s next generation of warships from 2018-10-19T21:06:02
The federal government is giving a consortium led by U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin the first crack at inking a contract to design Canada's $60-billion fleet of next generation warships, offici...
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Canadians line up coast to coast to buy legal pot from 2018-10-17T18:28:36
Thousands of Canadians lined up in queues across the country Wednesday to buy their first legal cannabis as at the stroke of midnight Canada became the first G7 country to legalize recreational use...
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Medical journal slams pot legalization as ‘national, uncontrolled experiment’ from 2018-10-16T21:10:37
The Canadian Medical Association Journal blasted Monday the plan by the Liberal government to legalize cannabis in Canada as “national, uncontrolled experiment” that pits the profits of cannabis pr...
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Canada won’t scrap LAV deal over Saudi journalist’s disappearance, says Freeland from 2018-10-15T16:20:18
Canada has no plans to cancel its multibillion contract to supply Saudi Arabia with advanced armoured vehicles despite ongoing concerns about the kingdom’s human rights record and a global outrage ...
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Trudeau defends government’s handling of relations with Saudi Arabia from 2018-10-12T20:32:51
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended Canada’s policy vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia as a wave of global outrage is building up about the case of Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist now missing ...
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Ottawa and Dehcho First Nations create Canada’s newest Indigenous protected area from 2018-10-11T18:23:45
The federal government and Dehcho First Nations in the Northwest Territories have agreed to a landmark deal that will protect a “breadbasket” wilderness area from resource development for generatio...
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Ottawa signals it’s open to talks on offshore Arctic oil and gas development from 2018-10-05T20:32:20
The federal government says it is open to talks with territorial governments, industry, and Indigenous governments and communities on the future of offshore oil and gas development in the Canadian ...
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Canada and allies accuse Russia of ‘malicious cyber-operations’ from 2018-10-04T18:16:56
Canada and several of its key Western allies on Thursday accused Russia’s military intelligence service of a litany of ‘malicious cyber-operations’ including the hacking of the Canadian-based world...
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Canada, EU and 8 other countries sign‘historic’Arctic fisheries moratorium agreement from 2018-10-03T18:45:13
Canada, the European Union and eight other countries signed Wednesday a legally binding international accord that will protect nearly three million square kilometres of the Central Arctic Ocean fro...
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Ottawa, British Columbia and First Nations hail $40B LNG investment from 2018-10-02T19:20:02
A consortium of five international investors has given its final approval for a massive liquefied national gas project in northern British Columbia that has the potential to turn Canada into an LNG...
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Liberals herald revamped trade deal with U.S. and Mexico from 2018-10-01T20:32:54
The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heralded the revamped trade pact between Canada, the United States, and Mexico as an agreement that would be “good for Canadian workers, good...
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U.S., Mexico to release trade deal text as pressure mounts on Canada from 2018-09-28T21:37:38
The United States and Mexico are expected to simultaneously release the text of their bilateral agreement in principle on Friday as the Trump administration increases pressure on Canada to join its...
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PMO denies Trump’s claim he snubbed Trudeau from 2018-09-27T16:53:33
The Prime Minister’s Office is refuting claims by U.S. President Donald Trump who said Wednesday he turned down a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because he was unhappy with Canada’s sta...
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Canada won’t be rushed on NAFTA renegotiation, says Trudeau from 2018-09-26T19:09:41
Prime Minster Justin Trudeau said Wednesday Canada will not be rushed into a bad trade deal with the United States and Mexico but he remained optimistic it is still possible to strike an accord tha...
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Venezuelan exodus causes unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Colombia, WFP warns from 2018-09-25T20:55:33
Colombia is facing an unprecedented crisis as thousands of people from Venezuela continue to cross the border every day to escape the country’s economic collapse that has brought lack of food, medi...
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Ottawa takes aim at illegal fishing and discarded fishing gear from 2018-09-20T22:22:13
The federal government is investing $10 million to support the development and deployment of satellite-based technologies that can remotely identify and track ships suspected of involvement in ille...
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Canada calls for closer international cooperation in combatting illegal fishing and ‘ghost gear’ from 2018-09-19T23:02:46
Canada is leading international efforts to beef up global cooperation in combatting illegal fishing and adopt new measures to deal with the problem of lost or discarded fishing gear at a three-day ...
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Genocide expert calls on Canada to prosecute returning ISIS fighters from 2018-09-18T23:22:03
A leading Canadian expert on genocide and human rights is calling on the federal government to prosecute Canadian jihadist fighters returning from Iraq and Syria, arguing Ottawa has a moral and leg...
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Ontario premier Ford unveils plan to slash Toronto city council from 2018-07-27T17:06:45
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Friday that his newly elected Progressive Conservative government will introduce legislation to slash the number of Toronto city council to nearly half its curre...
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Scientists discover new species and deep-sea mountains off B.C. coast, call for more protection from 2018-07-26T01:18:23
Canadian scientists who have discovered new ancient and fragile coral forests and potentially new species during an expedition to explore deep-sea mountains off the coast of British Columbia, say t...
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