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Ontario to end streaming in Grade 9, early years suspensions

TORONTO — Ontario will soon join the rest of Canada by doing away with an educational practice that perpetuates racism throughout the system, the provincial government said Monday as it announced the looming end to streaming in high schools.

Jul 6, 2020 2:31 PM Read more >

'It's painful,' says N.S. MP of string of abusive calls, veiled threats

HALIFAX — A Liberal member of Parliament says she is installing a home security system in response to abusive online and telephone comments received after she advocated for increased gun control and a feminist analysis of the Nova Scotia mass shootin

Jul 6, 2020 1:43 PM Read more >

Unions tell MPs that grocery workers should still have pandemic pay

OTTAWA — Union leaders who represent thousands of grocery-store workers are telling MPs there is no reason for large chains to cut pandemic-related pay premiums since the COVID-19 pandemic hasn't gone away.

Jul 6, 2020 1:27 PM Read more >

Clearview AI to end facial-recognition services in Canada: privacy commissioner

OTTAWA — The federal privacy commissioner says U.S. firm Clearview AI will stop offering its facial-recognition services in Canada in response to an investigation by the commissioner and three provincial counterparts.

Jul 6, 2020 1:23 PM Read more >

Don't criticize China's treatment of Hong Kong, Beijing warns Canada

OTTAWA — China is threatening retaliation against Canada after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned a new security law giving Beijing more control over Hong Kong.

Jul 6, 2020 1:18 PM Read more >

Trudeau takes a pass on meeting this week with Trump, Lopez Obrador

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking a pass on a meeting this week with U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Jul 6, 2020 1:03 PM Read more >

MPs reviewing virtual voting options to bolster COVID-19 Parliament

OTTAWA — As millions of Canadians contemplate what it will take to work long-term from home in order to control the spread of COVID-19, MPs are considering a very particular problem: how to virtually vote.

Jul 6, 2020 12:40 PM Read more >

Lac-Megantic marks seventh anniversary of 2013 rail disaster with memorial site

Seven years after a rail disaster decimated its downtown, Lac-Megantic sought Monday to honour both its past and future by inaugurating a long-planned memorial space at the site at the heart of the tragedy.

Jul 6, 2020 12:31 PM Read more >

Man accused in Rideau Hall crash had rifle, shotguns, high-capacity magazine: RCMP

OTTAWA — The man charged with ramming a truck through a gate at Rideau Hall last week was armed with two shotguns, a rifle and a revolver, and threatened Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, police say.

Jul 6, 2020 11:24 AM Read more >

Tories, NDP at odds over federal spending as Liberals prepare fiscal snapshot

OTTAWA — Opposition parties have laid out their demands for the federal Liberal government as Ottawa prepares to update Canadians on the country's finances after four months of COVID-19 — and where it expects the economy to head for the rest of the y

Jul 6, 2020 9:33 AM Read more >