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    Moncton council confirms it will keep RCMP, votes down public consultation

    Moncton council on Monday ratified keeping the Codiac Regional RCMP and rejected delaying that decision to consult the public first.The 6-5 votes came after an hour of at times tense debate that capped a policing review launched in 2021. The vote tally was the same as when councillors debated the issue Feb. 26 at a committee meeting. Committee votes must be ratified at later council meetings, which led to a resumption of the debate Monday.Coun. Daniel Bourgeois questioned why fellow council memb

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    Israel hits Rafah from the air as U.S. urges rethink on the ground

    Israel killed 14 people in air strikes in Rafah on Tuesday, Palestinian medical officials said, as the United States urged a rethink of a promised ground sweep against Hamas hold-outs in the refugee-clogged city on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. More than a million Palestinians displaced by the five-month-old Israeli assault elsewhere in the enclave have been sheltering in Rafah, which abuts Gaza's border with Egypt. Israel says one-sixth of Hamas' combat strength - four battalions of the

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    ShowBiz Minute: Keith, Grande, Mercury

    Toby Keith honored posthumously into Country Music Hall of Fame; Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez are officially divorced; London home Freddie Mercury bought in 1980 is for sale. (March 19)

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    Chicagoans vote on real estate tax hike to fight homelessness

    Chicagoans will vote in Tuesday's primary election on whether to increase the tax rate on real estate transfers worth over $1 million in order to raise funds for affordable housing and fighting homelessness. The ballot measure would lower property transfer taxes for the vast majority of Chicago residents, to $3 for every $500 of a transfer price under $1 million, down from the current flat rate of $3.75. But it would create new brackets at the priciest end of the city's property market, includ

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    Jake Gyllenhaal embraced the physicality of 'Road House' role

    Jake Gyllenhaal discusses balancing working out and the physical aesthetics of his role in new action movie "Road House" (Mar. 19)

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    13 people trapped after mine collapse in Russia’s Far East

    Emergency officials say a gold mine collapse in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region has trapped 13 people at a depth of about 125 meters. A rescue operation is underway to clear the transport slope and restore communication with the trapped miners.

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  • BusinessCBC

    Quebec's largest nursing union announces tentative contract deal with government

    Quebec's largest nurses' union, the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), announced Tuesday it has reached a tentative contract deal with the provincial government. Union president Julie Bouchard made the announcement in a statement. "After 16 months of negotiations, eight days of strikes and several mobilization actions and demonstrations … it will now be up to [members] to evaluate the work done at the negotiating table," she said. The proposed agreement will be presente

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