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Canada adds indecency, abortion offences to list of 'unjust' historic convictions

Canada adds indecency, abortion offences to list of 'unjust' historic convictions

OTTAWA — People who have been convicted of a number of indecency and anti-abortion offences that are no longer on the books can now have those convictions expunged.
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Opposition keeps pressure on the Liberals to call a public inquiry into interference

Opposition keeps pressure on the Liberals to call a public inquiry into interference

OTTAWA — Canada's official Opposition is expressing little confidence that the Liberal government will appoint a truly independent watchdog to investigate foreign interference.
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A look at the players involved in federal efforts to address foreign interference

A look at the players involved in federal efforts to address foreign interference

OTTAWA — Canada's major political parties have accepted the results of the 2019 and 2021 election and a panel of bureaucrats has determined both elections remained free and fair, an assessment that national security agencies agree with.
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Alberta Energy Regulator may have ignored law by not disclosing oilsands leak: lawyer

Alberta Energy Regulator may have ignored law by not disclosing oilsands leak: lawyer

CALGARY — Alberta's energy regulator may have ignored provincial law by not publicly disclosing that waste from a large oilsands tailings pond was escaping containment and seeping into groundwater, says a lawyer.
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Immigration department has 'more than enough' staff to meet processing goals: PBO

Immigration department has 'more than enough' staff to meet processing goals: PBO

OTTAWA — The federal government has "more than enough" staff to process applications for economic immigrants on time, the parliamentary budget officer says in a new report.
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A look at Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Leader Dennis King

A look at Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Leader Dennis King

CHARLOTTETOWN — A look at Dennis King, leader of Prince Edward Island’s Progressive Conservative party. Age: 51 Early years: King was born Nov. 1, 1971, in Georgetown, P.E.I.
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Judicial council reviewing complaint against Supreme Court of Canada's Russell Brown

Judicial council reviewing complaint against Supreme Court of Canada's Russell Brown

OTTAWA — The Canadian Judicial Council is reviewing a complaint about the alleged conduct of Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown. In a statement Tuesday, the council said the complaint against Brown, received Jan.
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Military drops charge against soldier accused of negligence in death of reservist

Military drops charge against soldier accused of negligence in death of reservist

OTTAWA — Military prosecutors have dropped their case against a soldier charged in relation to the death of an army reservist during a training exercise in 2020.
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In The News for March 7: Why are Canada's grocers making so much money?

In The News for March 7: Why are Canada's grocers making so much money?

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Tuesday, March 7, 2023 ... What we are watching in Canada ...
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Afghanistan envoy defies Taliban to keep embassy running, seeks Canadian aid fix

Afghanistan envoy defies Taliban to keep embassy running, seeks Canadian aid fix

OTTAWA — Afghanistan's pre-Taliban envoy has kept his country's Ottawa embassy running in the hopes that democracy will eventually return to his homeland, as he asks Canadians to fight "gender apartheid.
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