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Canadians should expect politicians to support right to bail, Virani's office says
OTTAWA — The office of Canada's justice minister says the public should expect politicians to support their right to bail and to be presumed innocent — warning that "immediate" and "uninformed reactions" only worsens matters. A jury on Sunday found Umar Zameer not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a Toronto police officer who was run over in an underground parking garage in July 2021. A spokesperson for Justice Minister Arif Virani says the office knows the circumstances surrounding
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Poll suggests half of Canadians have negative opinion of latest Liberal budget
OTTAWA — A new poll suggests the Liberals have not won over voters with their latest budget, though there is broad support for their plan to build millions of homes. Just shy of half the respondents to Leger's latest survey said they had a negative opinion of the federal budget, which was presented last Tuesday. Only 21 per cent said they had a positive opinion, and one-third of respondents said they didn't know or preferred not to answer. Still, 65 per cent of those surveyed said the plan to sp
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LGBTQ+ rallies to be held across Canada, billed as largest since marriage equality
Organizations across the country are gearing up for what they describe as the largest LGBTQ+ mobilization since the push for marriage equality. Fae Johnstone, president of the Society of Queer Momentum, says there will be rallies across Canada in May. The group, in partnership with other organizations, is pushing for all levels of government to respond to a series of calls to action that include funding for LGBTQ+ social supports and programs. The group has dubbed the campaign the Rainbow Week o
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A Ford Mustang Mach-E in this Windsor, Ont., lab is being driven from Germany
Not many people can say they've driven a car from across the Atlantic Ocean. But a team of researchers from the University of Windsor, both in a lab on the university's campus and in Hanover, Germany, are making that happen this week. "They've been able to set up so that the simulator here in Hanover is connected to our dynamometer located at the University of Windsor where we have the Mustang Mach-E on it," said Bill Van Heyst, the dean of engineering at the University of Windsor. "So when you'
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Selling federal office buildings should move twice as fast, says procurement official
The man in charge of tens of millions of square feet of federal office space is aiming to double the government's lumbering pace for offloading buildings.Mark Quinlan, assistant deputy minister of real property services at Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), said the department has put into place a "special group" to speed up property disposals. "Historically, the government is not very good at disposing of surplus properties," he told a city building summit organized by the Ottawa Bo
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Passover table set for a different tone this year, says Ottawa rabbi
Passover began at sundown Monday, and for many Jewish people in Canada, celebrating the major holiday this year may feel different due to the current conflict in the Middle East. Rabbi Elizabeth (Liz) Bolton is the rabbi at Or Haneshamah, a Reconstructionist congregation in Ottawa. Bolton was ordained in 1996 and moved to Ottawa from Baltimore in 2013. Passover is the celebration of the Jews escape from slavery in Egypt. The Seder is a dinner that happens on the first two nights of Passover. The
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You've been notified by a hospital that your information was stolen. Now what?
When Nicole Wilson first saw a letter in the mail from Windsor Regional Hospital telling her that her personal information has likely been exposed, she says she "panicked." "I called my husband right away and was like, 'oh my God, so what do I do now?' said Wilson. "How do I find out if my information is at risk and what's at risk?" Wilson is one of 326,000 patients whose information was stolen during a cyberattack incident last year. She and many others have started receiving letters from one (
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