CP NewsAlert: Judge refuses McGill's bid for injunction to end encampment
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused McGill University's request for an injunction to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment on its downtown Montreal campus. Lawyers for the university had asked the court on Monday to order the protesters to stop occupying its grounds and to authorize Montreal police ...
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Police credit forensic science for arrest in 2014 killing of woman near Montreal
LONGUEUIL, Que. - A man is facing a first-degree murder charge in the killing of a young woman nearly a decade after she was found dead on Montreal's South Shore. Jenique Dalcourt, 23, was struck and killed with an iron bar as she walked along a bike path in Longueuil, Que., on Oct. 21, 2014. Longueuil police say the s...
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Innu Nation grand chief slams NunatuKavut Community Council at identity summit
OTTAWA - Innu Nation Grand Chief Simon Pokue spoke to other Indigenous leaders at a meeting in Winnipeg today about what he calls Indigenous identity fraud by the NunatuKavut Community Council. The council, which represents some 6,000 people in south and central Labrador, claims to be Inuit. At a summit on Indigenous i...
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Ottawa to acquire Quebec Bridge from CN, will spend $1 billion on span over 25 years
QUEBEC - The federal government says it has reached a deal with Canadian National Railway Company to acquire the historic Quebec Bridge. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Quebec City that Ottawa will spend $1 billion over the next 25 years to repair, repaint and maintain the bridge, extending the span's l...
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In the news today: Wildfires rage in Western Canada, Manitoba murder trial continues
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Wildfires force thousands of Canadians to flee Thousands of people in Western Canada remain displaced from their homes as wildfires threaten their communities, triggering evacuation orders and alerts...
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Winnipeg murder trial expected to hear from neighbours of admitted serial killer
WINNIPEG - Three people who lived in the same apartment building where Jeremy Skibicki killed four women are expected to testify in a Winnipeg courtroom today. Skibicki told police he strangled or drowned the women in his home and then disposed of their bodies in garbage bins. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degre...
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B.C. needs dedicated, cross-government wildfire strategy: former minister
A former British Columbia forests minister says the province is on the right track as it responds to worsening wildfires, but the scale of the challenge is so great, it's falling behind and needs to prioritize a "whole-of-society" approach. Doug Donaldson says the place to start should be a dedicated provinci...
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B.C. First Nation surveys school site as it hosts meeting on unmarked graves
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A First Nations community in B.C.'s northern Interior that is hosting a gathering of Indigenous groups involved in the search for unmarked graves says it's conducting a geophysical survey for such sites on the grounds of a former residential school. The Nadleh Whut'en Indian Band, whose territory ...
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Whitehorse bans online voting for local elections over risk of foreign interference
WHITEHORSE - There will be no internet voting for Whitehorse council this year, after a concern of foreign interference prompted a 6-to-1 vote to remove the idea from the city's proposed election bylaw. Whitehorse Coun. Ted Laking proposed the change on Monday and says he's relieved to see the motion passed, because i...
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Spy agency CSIS reveals 24 harassment investigations in annual report
OTTAWA - Canada's spy agency says in its annual public report that it dealt with 24 harassment investigations last year involving complaints by its staff. But the chief human resources officer for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the number of investigations shouldn't be used to criticise the agency, and...
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