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SOUND OFF: NDP puts on hold spying on farmers with satellites
WHEN NEWS BROKE that Agriculture Minister Lana Popham was planning to use satellite surveillance to spy on farmers and ranchers from outer space, public reaction was angry as it was swift.The thought ...
Nov 22, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Toronto Wolfpack add Super League experience in Brad Singleton, James Cunningham
TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack have added experience in the form of Leeds Rhinos prop Brad Singleton and London Broncos hooker James Cunningham. Singleton, a 27-year-old Irish international, was part ...
Nov 22, 2019
Balance of Power — Kamloops-Thompson School District Board of Education Chair Kathleen Karpuk and Kamloops Councillor Mike O'Reilly
KAMLOOPS - This week on Balance of Power, Host James Peters welcomes Kamloops-Thompson School District Board of Education Chair Kathleen Karpuk for a discussion on the district's capital priorities an...
Nov 22, 2019
British Columbians unprepared for increasingly severe weather: BC Hydro
VICTORIA - BC Hydro says its customers are largely unprepared for power outages despite increasingly severe winter storms. The Crown utility says in a report that it's seeing increasing...
Nov 22, 2019
Quebec auditor general says youth protection delays increase risk
QUEBEC - Children in Quebec aren't able to get prompt help from the province's youth protection agency and those delays could threaten their safety, the province's auditor gen...
Nov 22, 2019
Military facing likely delay in delivery of new search-and-rescue plane
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is refusing to accept the first of its new search-and-rescue planes from European manufacturer Airbus because of concerns with the aircraft's manuals. The new plane ...
Nov 22, 2019
Statcan details wait times for social housing, perceptions on housing overall
OTTAWA - Results from a new national survey show that more than 283,000 households in Canada have someone on a waiting list for affordable housing. The first-of-its-kind data from Statistics Canada al...
Nov 22, 2019
'No substantive progress' in talks as CN Rail workers strike enters fourth day
MONTREAL - The strike at the country's biggest railway has entered its fourth day with no resolution in sight as round-the-clock negotiations continue under the watch of federal mediators. The Teamste...
Nov 22, 2019
Prime Minister Trudeau to meet with Ontario Premier Ford today in Ottawa
TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with Ontario Premier Doug Ford in Ottawa today. The sit-down between the pair will be the latest in a series of in-person talks Trudeau is having...
Nov 22, 2019
Quebec human rights commission urges police to end routine street checks
MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission says Montreal police must definitively end the practice of routine street checks. Commission vice-president Myrlande Pierre made the comments today to membe...
Nov 22, 2019
