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Rochelle Baker
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News, Island Insider
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July 30th 2020
Three cases of entangled humpback whales have been reported within the past four days, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has confirmed.
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More in today's news
Toronto reported just one new case Tuesday. "We have made tremendous progress that allows us to return to something a little closer to our normal lives this summer, but we are not out of the woods yet," Premier Doug Ford cautioned.
Emma McIntosh
News, Politics
| July 29th 2020
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Justin Trudeau will be in the hot seat today, July 30, 2020, for a rare prime ministerial appearance at a House of Commons committee, facing questions about his role in the simmering controversy involving the WE organization.
Teresa Wright
News, Politics
| July 30th 2020
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In the wake of revelations that Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his family had overseas trips sponsored by the WE organization, experts in the charitable sector say covering a donor's travel costs is an unusual practice.
Teresa Wright
News, Politics
| July 30th 2020
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Each July for the past five years, I have made a pilgrimage to a sacred site: the Peace Valley in Treaty 8 territory, the ancestral lands of the Dunne-za and Cree people.
Rita Wong
Opinion
| July 30th 2020
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The La Ronge Dam was moved from a hazardous condition to a potential dam failure classification Wednesday as water levels continue to rise in the Churchill River Basin, according to Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency.
Michael Bramadat-Willcock
News, La Ronge, Saskatchewan
| July 29th 2020
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With fewer workers available and outbreaks shutting the province’s farms and processing plants, heaps of blueberry compost will remain as testaments to COVID-19.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| July 30th 2020
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This week — after a marathon three-day session to hear from hundreds of speakers — Vancouver city councillors voted unanimously to “decriminalize poverty.”
The Canadian Press
News, Politics
| July 30th 2020
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The Petroleum Services Association of Canada is cutting its 2020 Canadian drilling forecast for a third time as the industry remains mired in a slump expected to extend well into the second half of the year.
The Canadian Press
News, Politics
| July 30th 2020
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The main export system for Western Canada's oil production is recovering after volumes fell by less than feared amid the COVID-19 economic slowdown in the second quarter, pipeline company Enbridge Inc. reported on Wednesday, July 29, 2020.
Dan Healing
News, Politics
| July 30th 2020
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A top American health expert is praising Canada for not succumbing to "vaccine nationalism" because of its efforts to push for fair global distribution of a cure for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mike Blanchfield
News, US News, Politics
| July 30th 2020
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From the archives
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Trevor Mack, Tracy Sherlock
News
| February 19th 2018
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