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Liberals to ask MPs to OK $87 billion in new spending, fuelled by pandemic aid
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are asking parliamentarians to approve $60 billion in spending on a key COVID-19 emergency benefit for workers. The Liberals had expected the Canada Emergency Response Be...
Jun 02, 2020
Ontario mulls collection of race-based COVID-19 data; some argue it's essential
TORONTO - The importance of understanding the role race might play in the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted Ontario to look at regulatory changes to make collection of such data provincewide, the governm...
Jun 02, 2020
Hybrid in-person-online education system likely to return in September: minister
VICTORIA - B.C. teachers can look forward to juggling online and in-person education once again in the fall.Education Minister Rob Fleming, speaking outside a middle school in Victoria Tuesday (June 2...
Jun 02, 2020
Fredette presents risk to public safety, correctional documents suggest
ST-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man found guilty of two murders poses a high risk to public safety as well as a risk of evading authorities, correctional documents filed at his sentencing hearing suggest. ...
Jun 02, 2020
Als head coach Jones says he received death threats as CFL player in Winnipeg
Khari Jones says he received death threats while he was the quarterback of the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers because of his interracial marriage. Jones, entering his second season as the Montreal Alouet...
Jun 02, 2020
High-speed Spanish passenger train hits car on track; 2 dead
MADRID - Two people were killed when a high-speed passenger train with more than 150 people on board hit a car on the tracks in northwest Spain on Tuesday. Emergency services said the locomotive derai...
Jun 02, 2020
Police: Video shows man killed in Kentucky fired a gun
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Video shows that a popular barbecue shack operator fatally shot while police and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew in Louisville fired a gun as officers approached his ...
Jun 02, 2020
Embracing religious themes, Trump visits John Paul II shrine
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump toured a Catholic shrine on Tuesday in his second straight religious-themed appearance as the nation grappled with widespread unrest over the death of George Floyd ...
Jun 02, 2020
Kamloops psychiatrist disciplined for inappropriate conduct with former patient
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops psychiatrist has been formally reprimanded for sexual misconduct.In a decision released Monday (June 1), the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia says Dr. Charl...
Jun 02, 2020
Metro Vancouver homes sales fall 44 per cent in May, but prices are high as ever
VANCOUVER - Home sales in the Greater Vancouver area continued their steep year-over-year drop last month amid confinement measures and physical distancing requirements. The Real Estate Board of Great...
Jun 02, 2020
