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Canadian Blood Services apologizes to LGBTQ+ groups for donation ban
OTTAWA — Canadian Blood Services says it has apologized to LGBTQ+ groups for a past policy that banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood. The ban was in place until 2022, when it was replaced by new rules under which all donors are asked the same questions about their sexual behaviour. The blood-donor service said CEO Graham Sher apologized to LGBTQ+ community members in person at an event in Ottawa Friday morning. Sher said in a release the group regrets that the policy contributed to di
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B.C. Finance Minister Katrine Conroy won't seek re-election
Katrine Conroy, B.C.'s minister of finance, will not be running in the next provincial election.On Friday, she shared the news from Castlegar, B.C., a community in her riding of Kootenay West, about 150 kilometres southeast of Kelowna.Conroy was first elected as MLA for West Kootenay-Boundary in 2005. She became the minister of children and family development in 2017, took over the Ministry of Forests in 2020 and in 2022, Conroy was appointed minister of finance. Conroy, 66, said she wants to sp
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Video‘Difficult’ conversations need to be had with industry on temporary foreign workers: Miller
Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Friday, following a meeting of provincial and territorial ministers, that “difficult” conversations need to be had with industry when it comes to reducing the number of temporary foreign workers. He suggested that Canadian businesses may have become “addicted” to foreign workers.
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Major geomagnetic storm associated with solar flares hitting all of Canada
OTTAWA — Canada's space weather agency is warning of a "major geomagnetic storm" that is hitting the country and could have severe impacts on power systems and other infrastructure. Space Weather Canada says the storm that is associated with massive solar flares was striking all of Canada Friday afternoon. The U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued its first geomagnetic storm watch since 2005 and says the storm is a "potentially historic event." A spokesman for electri
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Canada abstains on Palestine recognition at UN, open to statehood before peace
OTTAWA — Canada abstained from another United Nations vote Friday aimed at formally recognizing Palestine, while opening the door to supporting statehood before the end of the current conflict. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it's part of Canada's efforts to stop the Israeli government from blocking an eventual Palestinian state. "Our long-standing position (was) that you could only recognize the State of Palestine as an outcome at the end of a process leading to a two-state solution," he tol
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Decade after son disappeared, Calgary father addresses son's killer in Indigenous courtroom
A decade after Jimmy Crowshoe invited reporters and cameras into his backyard, begging for the public's help in finding his missing son, he stood in the middle of Calgary's Indigenous courtroom and smudged, preparing to address his son's killer at a sentencing hearing Friday. Colton Crowshoe was 18 years old when he was reported missing by Jimmy on July 6, 2014 That was two days after he was last seen leaving a party with a friend who would later be charged with his murder. "My baby," said Jimmy
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Major upgrade of weather radar stations could hasten severe weather warnings
OTTAWA — From the crest of a small hill less than an hour's drive from the easternmost point of Newfoundland and Labrador to a fir tree-covered mountainside just 10 kilometres off the Straight of Georgia, Canada is now equipped with a network of high-powered Doppler radar towers designed to identify and warn us about whatever Mother Nature can conjure up. Every six minutes, the 32 Environment Canada weather stations scan an area greater than four million square kilometres, using pulses of microw
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