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    Don't leave us out of UN plastic treaty talks, says Aamjiwnaang First Nation

    OTTAWA — A First Nation in southern Ontario has a simple message for the delegates who are gathered in Ottawa this week to negotiate a treaty to curb plastic waste around the world: don't leave us out. Aamjiwnaang First Nation councillor Janelle Nahmabin says Indigenous Peoples are already on the front lines of dealing with the after-effects of plastic pollution. Leaving them out of the conversation only makes that harder, she said through tears Wednesday alongside a panel of her peers. Nahmabin

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    Quebec liquor store employees walk off the job as two-day strike begins

    MONTREAL — Some 5,000 Quebec liquor corporation workers walked off the job on Wednesday for a planned two-day strike amid contract negotiations with their employer. Their union — the Syndicat des employé(e)s de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ — confirmed at midnight on Facebook it was launching the strike after a lack of progress at the negotiating table. It says the two strike days are the first to be used under the union's 15-day strike mandate. The union said about 70 per cent of its members

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    Police seeking person who vandalized Kensington footbridge with racist graffiti

    The Kensington police department is looking for whoever left an anti-Black slur on a footbridge near the Confederation Trail in central Prince Edward Island. "This investigation is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence," the force said in a social media post Wednesday afternoon.Const. James Gotell said the Royal Canadian Legion reported the crime after a walker told the group about graffiti on a wooden bridge that links a legion park to the trail. "By the time that we arrived there

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    Here's the latest for Wednesday, April 24: Biden signs aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan; Supreme Court hears arguments in Idaho abortion case; Columbia U. negotiating with pro-Palestinian protesters; Military horses run loose in London.

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    Federal budget money will help N.L. homes get built faster, says deputy PM

    Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Mount Pearl on Wednesday to tout housing funding in the federal budget. (Heather Gillis/CBC)Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says funding announcements made in the federal budget will get homes built faster — something Newfoundland and Labrador needs to do to meet current and future demand."We need supply, supply, supply," Freeland told reporters at the site of a new apartment complex in Mount Pearl on Wednesday. "This is our country's most p

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    Police seeing no further extortion of South Asian businesses as investigation continues

    A rash of extortion incidents targeting South Asian home builders in Edmonton has dropped off, but police are continuing to investigate the string of arsons that have destroyed new or under-construction homes.On Wednesday, the Edmonton Police Service provided an update on Project Gaslight — a probe into 34 incidents alleged to have been carried out by a group of local suspects who are being directed by someone in India.Investigators have said the houses went up in flames after local South Asian

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    Liberals pounce on Poilievre's visit to carbon tax protest, support from Alex Jones

    OTTAWA — As the Liberals try to reverse their political fortunes with the latest federal budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ratcheted up attacks against his Conservative opponent on Wednesday, tying him to a far-right American figure. Polls suggest the Liberal budget released last week has yet to resonate, but Trudeau suggested it's still more of a plan than what Poilievre has on offer, other than trying to exploit public anxieties. During a stop to promote the budget in Oakville, Ont., Trude

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