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Trudeau says Saskatchewan to get carbon rebates despite province not paying levies
SASKATOON — Justin Trudeau says residents in Saskatchewan will continue to get carbon rebates while the province says it's not worried by the prime minister's push to get the Canada Revenue Agency to collect money owed. The Saskatchewan government decided earlier this year not to remit the federal carbon price on natural gas to Ottawa, a move that breaks federal law. Trudeau said Tuesday in Saskatoon that the Canada Revenue Agency has mechanisms to collect the money from the province. "We’re goi
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Loblaws Canada groceries: Video goes viral after man slams 'downright antagonistic' Loblaw-affiliated stores
A man who’s gone viral after posting a video to Reddit outlining his frustrations with Loblaw-affiliated grocery stores says he simply wanted to point out the increasing injustices at the place where he shops for food.
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Saskatchewan MP won't run again, cites Tory decision to disallow open nomination race
OTTAWA — A Conservative member of Parliament says he isn't seeking re-election because his party is not allowing an open nomination in a new riding. Gary Vidal cites the party's response to changing electoral boundaries in his announcement that he won't run. Vidal was elected in 2019 to represent the sprawling Saskatchewan riding of Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River in the province's far north. Vidal says the riding boundaries are changing "drastically" and he will no longer reside in the elec
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An 'ambitious' global plastic treaty demands limits on production, Guilbeault says
OTTAWA — A global treaty to end plastic waste will not be ambitious enough if it does not include some limits on plastic production, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Tuesday as the fourth round of negotiations kicked off in Ottawa. The scientific evidence shows that reducing the amount of plastic that's produced is the only way to keep it out of the environment, not to mention what the world eats, drinks and breathes, environmental groups say. One of them, Greenpeace, wants the agreem
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RCMP allege two former UN workers in Montreal tried to sell military drones in Libya
MONTREAL — Two men who used to work for the United Nations in Montreal are facing criminal charges for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to sell Chinese attack drones to a Libyan armed group, and sanctioned oil to China. Fathi Ben Ahmed Mhaouek, 61, appeared in a Montreal court Tuesday afternoon after he was arrested earlier in the day. He has been charged with one count of conspiracy. Police and prosecutors say the alleged conspiracy took place between 2018 and 2021, while he was working at t
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Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same rights that people in the rest of Canada have," Premier Wab Kinew said Tuesday. After legalizing recreational cannabis in 2018, the federal government set a limit on homegrown plants at four per household. Manitoba under the former Progressive Conservative government went fu
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Zameer acquittal demonstrates why politicians should keep quiet on bail, lawyers say
OTTAWA — An innocent man could have spent years in jail had a judge not granted him bail, a civil liberties advocate said Monday, as lawyers warned that Umar Zameer's case underscores the risks of political leaders weighing in on bail decisions. A jury found Zameer not guilty Sunday in the death of Toronto police Const. Jeffrey Northrup, who was run over in an underground parking garage in July 2021. Zameer was granted bail some months later — a decision that drew public criticism from Ontario P
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