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Auditor finds $2.4B in unpaid student loans, calls for stronger recovery efforts
OTTAWA - Canada's auditor general is calling for the federal government to step up its recovery of outstanding student loans to keep taxpayers from being left on the hook. In a report tabled in P...
Jul 08, 2020
Singh calls on Trudeau to address systemic racism in police forces
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the Rideau Hall intruder had been a person of colour the outcome would have been different. Military reservist and Manitoba businessman Corey Hurren...
Jul 08, 2020
U.S., Mexican presidents meeting at White House to talk USMCA, without Canada
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is meeting today with his Mexican counterpart to celebrate North America's new trade deal - without Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to join...
Jul 08, 2020
Supreme Court sides with Trump in birth control opt-out case
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in its effort to allow more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women as required by the Affordable Care A...
Jul 08, 2020
Coppola and Henson companies get loans for winery, puppetry
LOS ANGELES - From a godfather of cinema to Kermit the Frog, the U.S. government's small-business lending program sent money into unexpected corners of the entertainment industry. While legendary name...
Jul 08, 2020
Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students
BOSTON - Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to bar international students from staying i...
Jul 08, 2020
Recycling facilities still busy weeks after reopening
Business has not slowed down at either of SARCAN's two Prince Albert facilities.Bill Powalinsky, CEO with P.A. and District Community Service Centre, which operates both facilities through Pine Indust...
Jul 08, 2020
Border agency failing to promptly remove many people from Canada, auditor says
OTTAWA - The federal auditor general says Canada's border agency has failed to promptly remove most of the people under orders to leave the country. In a report tabled in Parliament today, the auditor...
Jul 08, 2020
'Palm Springs' arrives for the Groundhog Days of quarantine
NEW YORK - Though most of the films that have debuted during the pandemic never got to screen for packed movie houses, "Palm Springs" had the kind of premiere filmmakers dream of. At the Sundance Film...
Jul 08, 2020
Fox's Carlson criticized for saying Democrats hate America
NEW YORK - Television's most popular political host, Tucker Carlson, says leaders of the Democratic party should be disqualified from running the country because they "despise" it. That led the Biden ...
Jul 08, 2020
