WATERLOO, Ont. — As the three main political parties continue courting votes from middle−class families, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau surrounded himself with children Monday and promised help for parents who need more child care before and after regular school hours. Trudeau’s campaign announcement that a re−elected Liberal government would create up to 250,000 more spaces for before− and after−school...
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Scheer would restore Harper’s child fitness and arts tax credits Liberals axed
LAKE COUNTRY, B.C. — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer wants to revive two more of Stephen Harper’s boutique tax credits axed by the Trudeau Liberals. Scheer was at a park in Kelowna, B.C., on Monday to announce that if he is elected, parents would receive up to $150 back on their taxes per child up to the age...
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Teen killed in ‘ambush’ shooting an innocent victim, says police chief
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Police are searching for at least seven suspects who they say descended on an apartment complex west of Toronto on Saturday evening, firing indiscriminately and killing a teen described as an innocent bystander. Investigators believe the intended targets were a group of people preparing to film a rap video outside the building in Mississauga,...
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2,300 pigeons killed, 635,000 kg of bird poop cleared in bridge fix: Saskatoon
SASKATOON — The City of Saskatoon says about 2,300 pigeons have been killed as part of a project to rehabilitate a major bridge. The city says the dead birds have been removed from the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge along with 635,000 kilograms of pigeon poop. It says the birds and the poop had to go...
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Alberta investigating after medical examiner uses truck trailer for body storage
EDMONTON — The Alberta government has made changes and apologized to the families involved after video was aired of a deceased person in a body bag being manhandled outside the medical examiner’s office. “It is a continuous expectation of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that dignity and respect is shown to the deceased in...
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‘Very dangerous storm’ Dorian causing widespread power outages, damage
HALIFAX — Dorian slammed into the Maritimes on Saturday, its powerful gusts uprooting trees, tearing off roofs and yanking down power lines — leaving more than 450,000 people in the dark as the post−tropical storm made landfall near Halifax. Torrential rain, pounding surf and howling winds reaching up to 148 kilometres per hour were reported early in the evening, with the region’s largest city appearing to suffer...
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Ottawa gives Quebec $250 million to cover costs related to asylum seeker influx
QUEBEC — The federal government is giving Quebec $250 million in compensation for costs the province incurred following the influx of asylum seekers across the U.S. border. Quebec’s immigration minister said today the federal money completely covers the province’s expenses in connection with the thousands of people who crossed irregularly from the United States in 2017 and 2018....
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Ontario needs a regional immigration strategy, new report suggests
TORONTO — Ontario’s small communities could benefit from the influx of immigrants that are disproportionately settling in the Greater Toronto Area, a new report said Thursday as it urged all levels of government to address the imbalance. The study from the Conference Board of Canada said the number of newcomers settling in Ontario last year starkly...
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Scheer says Liberals deflecting from scandals with abortion, same-sex marriage
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer sought Thursday to put a pin in the question of whether his party would reopen debates on abortion or same−sex marriage, blaming the Liberals for trying to aggravate ancient divisions to distract from their own failures. Scheer has long been on the record as opposing both abortion and same−sex marriage personally, and disavowed neither of those...