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Alberta premier says Calgary MLA Stephanie McLean has resigned
CALGARY - Former Alberta cabinet minister Stephanie McLean has resigned months after announcing she wouldn't seek re-election this spring. Premier Rachel Notley posted Wednesday night on Facebook...
Jan 03, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 3
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Jan. 3 ___ FOURTH FEDERAL RIDING FALLS VACANT Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is poised to call byelections in three federal ridings within days and now ...
Jan 03, 2019
Fourth federal riding falls vacant as PM poised to call three byelections
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is poised to call byelections in three federal ridings within days and now he has a fourth vacant riding he may choose to fill at the same time. Sheila Malcolmso...
Jan 02, 2019
Peace bond hearing withdrawn for B.C. couple cleared in legislature terror plot
VANCOUVER - Canada's prosecution service has withdrawn a peace bond application for a British Columbia couple whose guilty verdict for plotting to bomb the provincial legislature was tossed ...
Jan 02, 2019
Montreal longshoremen at country's second-largest port vote for strike mandate
MONTREAL - Longshoremen at Canada's second largest port have voted nearly unanimously for a strike mandate in a move that is largely symbolic. Union spokesman Michel Murray announced Wednesday th...
Jan 02, 2019
Kevin Vickers says he's considering a run for New Brunswick Liberal leadership
TROUT BROOK, N.B. - Kevin Vickers, who became Canada's ambassador to Ireland after being hailed as a hero for helping to end the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, is considering a move into politic...
Jan 02, 2019
Proposed class action against Uber can proceed, appeal court rules
TORONTO - A proposed class-action lawsuit against the ride-hailing company Uber filed by one of its drivers will go ahead after Ontario's top court reversed a lower court decision that would have sent...
Jan 02, 2019
Syncrude to pay $2.75 million to settle charges in Alberta blue heron deaths
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Syncrude has agreed to plead guilty and pay $2.75 million in fines over the deaths of 31 great blue herons at an Alberta oilsands mine. The birds were found dead or dying in 201...
Jan 02, 2019
Gender pay gap widest at top of the corporate ladder, new report says
OTTAWA - A new report on the country's highest-paid CEOs is adding evidence to the argument that women face a "double-pane glass ceiling" at the top of Canada's corporate ladder - first in g...
Jan 02, 2019
Liberals look to infrastructure bank to finance rural, remote broadband internet
OTTAWA - The federal infrastructure minister says he is looking to connect private backers with some of the country's rural and northern communities to pay for badly needed broadband in...
Jan 02, 2019
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