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Public servants to be in-office 3 days a week as of Sept. 9
OTTAWA — Federal public servants will have to work from their offices at least three days a week as of Sept. 9. The new rules also stipulate that executives will have to be in the office at least four days a week. The Treasury Board of Canada says the new rules are being put in place due to the benefits of interacting in-person in a "consistent" way. It also says the new requirement is meant to bring more fairness and consistency to how the hybrid work model is applied. Previously, most federal
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Macklem says he doesn't think federal budget will have much of an impact on inflation
OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he doesn't think the federal budget tabled last month with have much of an effect on inflation. Macklem was testifying at a Senate committee alongside senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers following the central bank's latest interest rate announcement. The governor says the spending plan hasn't changed the federal government's fiscal track by much. Macklem says that's why he doesn't expect it to have a significant impact on economic growth or in
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Conservatives call on Commons Speaker to resign, say he let Trudeau cross the line
OTTAWA — Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader — and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — during a heated debate Tuesday. The Tories say Fergus did not apply the rules equally during a tense back and forth between Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre was kicked out of the chamber after he called Trudeau a "wacko prime minister" and refused Fergus's request to withdraw the remark. His entire caucus eventually left as
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh confirms his party will support the Liberals' federal budget
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Wednesday ended any speculation his party would pull out of its deal with the minority Liberal government by finally agreeing to support the government's budget. Singh said his party wanted time to digest the document, which was tabled April 16, but is ultimately voting in favour of it because of shared initiatives that it proposes. That includes creating a national school lunch program and providing free birth control and diabetes medicine for anyone with a
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Court rejects students' request for injunction against McGill encampment
MONTREAL — Pro-Palestinian activists who have pitched their tents on the McGill University campus scored a legal victory on Wednesday when a Quebec judge rejected a request for an injunction to stop their protest. Two students at the Montreal university had asked Quebec Superior Court to order protesters to move at least 100 metres from school buildings, saying their presence had created an environment of aggression and left them feeling unsafe. Justice Chantal Masse ruled Wednesday that the stu
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Ottawa 'urgently' waiting for info from B.C. before deciding on drug criminalization
OTTAWA — A decision about whether to recriminalize drug use in British Columbia needs to be made urgently, Canada's addictions minister said Wednesday, and she says she is still waiting for more information from the province before making a call. But B.C.'s health minister said it was hard for him to imagine that federal action was waiting on more information from the province, with both federal Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau having been briefed. The province i
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Hate-crime probe: Vancouver woman arrested over speech that praised Hamas attack
VANCOUVER — Police say a 44-year-old woman has been arrested in a hate-crime investigation over a speech in Vancouver that praised the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. A statement from the Vancouver Police Department said that the woman "referred to a number of terrorist organizations as heroes." It said a criminal investigation was underway to determine if her comments violated hate-crime laws. The speech outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday drew condemnation from Premier David Eby, Van
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