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Richmond, B.C., council votes to back safe consumption site after fractious meetings

Richmond, B.C., council votes to back safe consumption site after fractious meetings

Richmond, B.C., resident Edward Cheung says many community members feel they know exactly what will happen if a supervised safe consumption drug site is established in the city.
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NDP to move bill calling for ban of coal exports as Canadian output booms

NDP to move bill calling for ban of coal exports as Canadian output booms

OTTAWA — Canadian exports of the kind of coal used to make electricity hit an eight-year high in 2022 despite promises from the Liberal government to work on banning exports completely by the end of the decade.
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Carbon price rebates rising in most provinces April 1

Carbon price rebates rising in most provinces April 1

OTTAWA — The federal carbon price will increase April 1 to $85 per tonne, up from $60. The quarterly rebates associated with it — which the Liberals rebranded Wednesday as the "Canada Carbon Rebate" — are also getting their once-a-year overhaul.
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Birth control, diabetes meds could be covered if Liberals clinch NDP pharmacare deal

Birth control, diabetes meds could be covered if Liberals clinch NDP pharmacare deal

OTTAWA — Pharmacare negotiations between the Liberals and NDP are on a knife's edge, and the main point of contention is the number of drugs they plan to start with.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt Trudeau during House of Commons question period

Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt Trudeau during House of Commons question period

OTTAWA — Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted question period briefly on Wednesday, interrupting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he answered a question from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
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Fewer than half of people support assisted death exclusively for mental illness: poll

Fewer than half of people support assisted death exclusively for mental illness: poll

OTTAWA — Fewer than half of Canadians feel medical assistance in dying should be available to people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, the results of a new survey showed Wednesday.
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Quebec cold case murder: Crown tells jury accused admits he killed teen in 2000

Quebec cold case murder: Crown tells jury accused admits he killed teen in 2000

SAGUENAY, Que. — The Quebec man charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of 19-year-old junior college student Guylaine Potvin nearly 24 years ago now admits to causing her death, a Crown prosecutor said Wednesday.
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B.C. cherry growers 'reeling' after January cold snap that damaged buds

B.C. cherry growers 'reeling' after January cold snap that damaged buds

KELOWNA, B.C. — This season will likely be the most challenging cherry growers have ever experienced in British Columbia, a farmer and industry leader says, after a widespread cold snap damaged trees and buds last month.
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Inquest into slain Quebec officer looks at lack of oversight for mental-health cases

Inquest into slain Quebec officer looks at lack of oversight for mental-health cases

MONTREAL — The last psychiatrist to speak to a mentally ill Quebec man before he fatally stabbed a provincial police sergeant last March had a particularly difficult phone call with him days before the killing, a coroner's inquest heard Wednesday.
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Makers of COVID-19 protective equipment seek over $5 billion in damages from Ottawa

Makers of COVID-19 protective equipment seek over $5 billion in damages from Ottawa

OTTAWA — Canadian manufacturers of masks and other equipment for protecting against COVID-19 are seeking more than $5 billion in damages from the federal government, saying Ottawa misled them about buying and helping sell their products.
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