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The Senate votes to end impeachment trial of Homeland Security Sec. Mayorkas: What happened
The U.S. Senate quickly ended the impeachment trial brought by House Republicans against the country’s top border official.
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Mayor says new federal funding will help Toronto's cash crunch
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has mixed feelings about the money heading the city's way, per the 2024 federal budget tabled this week.On one hand, she's applauding new money earmarked to help the city address its affordability crisis. On the other, Chow says she's disappointed in the lack of money for the TTC."For Torontonians, we can start building and some percentage of it will be affordable," Chow told reporters Tuesday."I'm very encouraged to see the federal budget emphasizing the building of ho
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Montreal police searching for missing 15-year-old boy
Montreal police are seeking the public's help to locate a 15-year-old boy who has been missing since Monday. According to the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, Kibande Mayaka was last seen Monday evening at his family home in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.The teenager is Black, five feet, 11 inches tall and weighs about 165 pounds.He speaks Swahili and struggles to communicate in French.On Monday evening, he was wearing a black coat with a fur hood, black pants and white Air
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A rare 'devil comet' will reach peak brightness this weekend. Here's how you can see it.
On Sunday, the rare devil comet will reach its closest point to the sun, creating an illuminating sky show. Here is how skygazers can watch it.
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'We're going to be welcoming the world here,' Lennox Island chief says of new park funding
The chief of Lennox Island First Nation is thrilled that this week's federal budget confirms money will be coming to turn a string of islands off Prince Edward Island's North Shore into Canada's next national park reserve."We're moving forward in protecting something that's so sacred to us and so dear to us and that will have massive, massive, wonderful benefits as we move forward with it," Darlene Bernard told CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin on Wednesday."We're going to be creating employm
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Tories accuse minister of 'politicizing' Governor General's office over online harms
OTTAWA — A spokeswoman for Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says she will continue to advocate for "digital respect," despite suggestions it's inappropriate for her to wade in when a government bill targeting the issue is being hotly debated. Justice Minister Arif Virani raised eyebrows last week when he posted photos of himself with "industry experts" at a recent symposium hosted by Rideau Hall. Virani made mention of the government's new Online Harms Act, which aims to better protect Canadians on the inte
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PQ leader's allusion to deportations, executions a threat to social cohesion: MP
OTTAWA — Quebec Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez says he deplores the tone taken by the leader of the Parti Québécois, who referenced dark moments in Canadian history to justify the party's push for independence. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon told a news conference Tuesday that the history of francophones in Canada is coloured by deportations and executions. Days earlier, he referenced Canada's encroachment on Quebec jurisdiction as another argument for Quebec sovereignty, and he pledged to hold a referend
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