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Remove non-consensual content, enforce existing laws: ethics committee on Pornhub
A parliamentary committee is recommending that Canadians victimized by non-consensual and content posted to Pornhub and other sites should be able to get it removed immediately. In a report today, the...
Jun 17, 2021
High court sides with Catholic agency in foster care dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples as foster parents. The ...
Jun 17, 2021
UK records over 10,000 virus cases for first time since Feb
LONDON (AP) - The U.K.'s latest surge in coronavirus infections gathered pace Thursday with new confirmed cases rising above 10,000 for the first time in nearly four months as a result of the spread o...
Jun 17, 2021
Ex-President Gbagbo back in Ivory Coast after acquittal
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Former President Laurent Gbagbo returned home to Ivory Coast on Thursday, a decade after his refusal to concede defeat in a presidential election sparked months of violence...
Jun 17, 2021
Virtual Supreme Court hearings to continue beyond pandemic, chief justice says
OTTAWA - Canada's chief justice says the Supreme Court will continue to hold virtual hearings beyond the COVID-19 pandemic if participants agree to them. At a news conference today, Richard Wagner say...
Jun 17, 2021
Canada to accept donation of one million Moderna vaccine doses from the United States
OTTAWA - Canada will receive a donation of one million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine from the United States today. The doses are part of the U.S. promise to donate 80 million doses of vaccines b...
Jun 17, 2021
Greens' Annamie Paul asks party execs for 'space to unify,' tells PM to 'back off'
OTTAWA - Green Leader Annamie Paul is asking party brass and the prime minister to give her "the space to unify" the party ahead of a general meeting that could serve as a referendum on her leadership...
Jun 17, 2021
Commons committee calls for reshaping of EI to cover gig workers, self-employed
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee recommends a boost to the value and duration of employment insurance benefits, and expanding the system to cover gig workers and the self-employed. Today's report...
Jun 17, 2021
Canadian Leylah Annie Fernandez loses third-set tiebreaker against Ons Jabeur
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom - Canada's Leylah Annie Fernandez lost 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (3) to No. 2 seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the second round of the Viking Classic Birmingham on Thursday. The 66th-ranke...
Jun 17, 2021
Vaccine hesitancy in the Prairies, abuse of asylum seekers : In The News for June 17
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 17 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jun 17, 2021