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Quebec legal aid lawyers set for four-day strike over equal pay with Crown attorneys
MONTREAL - Hundreds of legal aid lawyers in Quebec are taking part in a four-day strike because the provincial government is offering them less than it did for Crown attorneys. About 200 legal aid law...
Jun 06, 2022

China's actions toward Canadian planes 'provocative and irresponsible': Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the actions of Chinese pilots towards Canadian planes taking part in a United Nations mission "irresponsible and provocative." Speaking at a news conf...
Jun 06, 2022

Charges stayed against former Conservative MP
thCALGARY, AB - A trial for former Calgary West MP Rob Anders into alleged tax fraud allegations was set to get underway in a Calgary courtroom on Monday morning, June 6, 2022.As the trail was set to ...
Jun 06, 2022

Conservatives say record number of Canadians signed up to vote for new party leader
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidates say they've sold memberships to hundreds of thousands of Canadians ahead of the September vote. Pierre Poilievre's campaign claims to have signed up more th...
Jun 06, 2022

Canada, Chile sign memorandum of understanding to advance gender equality
OTTAWA - Canada and Chile have signed an agreement to advance gender equality and women's empowerment in both countries. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chilean President Gabriel Boric attended a sp...
Jun 06, 2022

Curling Canada high-performance director Peckham to begin transition to retirement
Curling Canada says high-performance director Gerry Peckham will begin the transition to retirement next season. The organization says his role will be reduced to 50 per cent starting on Sept. 1. Curl...
Jun 06, 2022

Federal judge OKs Oklahoma’s lethal injection method
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state's three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than...
Jun 06, 2022

US general: Ukraine will keep getting ‘significant’ support
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) - The United States and its allies will keep providing "significant" support to Ukraine out of respect for the legacy of D-Day soldiers, whose victory over the Nazis he...
Jun 06, 2022

Biden hoping to avoid Summit of the Americas flop in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador confirmed Monday that he will not attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, dealing a blow to the event hosted by U.S. ...
Jun 06, 2022

N.S. mass killer slipped by Truro police in nine-minute journey on Day 2 of rampage
TRURO, N.S. - A mass killer in a replica police vehicle was able to drive undetected through the largest Nova Scotia town in the vicinity of his murders, slipping by local constables who had received ...
Jun 06, 2022