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Valérie Plante speaks out about fake news
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante spoke out on Sunday for the first time about a false news report that accused a local mosque of requiring female workers to leave a construction site.
Alberta MLA says he regrets firing woman after she made sex harassment complaint
Alberta's Opposition house leader says he regrets firing an employee after she told him she was being sexually harassed, and says his caucus is committed to ending abuse in the workplace.
High court sides with First Nations, environmental groups in Yukon dispute
The unanimous high court ruling Friday is likely to have a profound impact on resource development and ecological protection in the Peel Watershed, which covers an area the size of Ireland.
George Heyman tells Ottawa to 'get its nose' out of B.C. business
British Columbia says the federal government needs to back off and stop interfering in an independent review process over the approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline.
Jagmeet Singh slams Trudeau government for 'betrayal' of B.C.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is slamming the Trudeau government for betraying the people of British Columbia in order to support the interests of a large corporation, Texas-based multinational pipeline operator Kinder Morgan.
TransCanada shuts down Keystone oil pipeline after another leak
The pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma and to Wood River/Patoka, Illinois “is expected to remain shut down as we respond to this incident,” the Calgary-based company said in a statement Thursday.
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Democrats introduce impeachment articles against President Trump
Led by U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen, a Tennessee liberal and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, introduced an article of impeachment that targets President Donald Trump.
NEB rejects Kinder Morgan proposal to limit debate
The National Energy Board has rejected a requested deadline proposed by pipeline giant Kinder Morgan to limit debate about its request to short-circuit provincial and municipal laws standing in the way of its Trans Mountain expansion project.
It's a bird, it's a plane...
On his way to question period today, Trudeau descended the stairs sporting slicked-down hair and a blue suit with a bright red tie, surprising the assembled staff and journalists who were waiting for him.