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WINNIPEG — The federal government said it is stepping up efforts to evacuate two Manitoba First Nations that are threatened by a raging wildfire. Public Safety Canada said about 600 people were expected to be evacuated from the Little Grand Rapids and Pauingassi First Nations by the end of the day Wednesday with more to […]

OTTAWA — The federal government has blocked the proposed $1.5-billion takeover of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese state-owned company for reasons of national security. After markets closed Wednesday, Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains confirmed the government’s decision to prevent CCCC International Holding Ltd. from acquiring the Aecon construction firm. The Trudeau government had been […]

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is shutting down debate on a massive bill to overhaul laws governing federal elections as it rushes to ensure the reforms can be implemented in time for the 2019 election. Government House leader Bardish Chagger says opposition parties left her no option but to invoke time allocation to end second […]

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Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is laughing off concerns raised by Progressive Conservatives that her prospective cabinet would be filled with novices and radicals. Doug Ford’s PCs have pounced on comments Horwath made during a Toronto Star editorial board this week after a reporter questioned if she felt she had a “thick enough bench” of […]

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OTTAWA — Canada and its fellow G7 countries along with the European Union issued a joint statement today saying they are united in rejecting and denouncing the recent presidential election in Venezuela. The May 20 election of Nicolas Maduro has already attracted widespread condemnation, with Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland earlier calling the vote “illegitimate […]

Tuesday was another milestone “on Trump’s highway to American greatness,” because President Trump “has ordered the people investigating him to investigate their investigation of him,” Stephen Colbert said on The Late Show. “Some people are calling this a constitutional crisis, but I don’t know about that. A constitutional crisis technically requires that one branch of […]

Philip Roth, one of the most prolific and celebrated writers of his generation, died Tuesday. He was 85, and a close friend, Judith Thurman, said the cause of death was congestive heart failure. Between his first collection of stories, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), and his final novel, 2010’s Nemesis, Roth won two National Book Awards, a […]

OTTAWA — The federal government won’t say if its anti-harassment bill will block complainants of workplace misconduct from also taking their cases to the Human Rights Commission. Independent Sen. Marilou McPhedran asked Labour Minister Patty Hajdu during a special question period session in the Senate on Tuesday to confirm whether federal workers will be able […]