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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is deeply disappointed in a “backsliding on women’s rights” happening in American states moving to ban abortion access. Alabama’s legislature has passed a law banning virtually all abortions in the state and other southern and midwestern states are poised to make similar moves.  Trudeau told reporters in…

OTTAWA — Federal politicians are condemning a video of an RCMP officer conducting an “abhorrent” interrogation of an Indigenous teen who reported she’d been sexually assaulted. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett calls the interrogation “disgusting.” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale calls the interrogation techniques shown in the video “abhorrent” and “profoundly outdated, offensive and wrong.”…

John Oliver believes it’s long past time to have a conversation about how to stop climate change and save the planet. “But unless you like bad-faith conversations about farting cows, that conversation has not gone well so far,” The HBO host said on Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight.” Oliver noted that many on the right ―…

OTTAWA _ The House of Commons is apologizing to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman for what he had to endure while facing criminal breach-of-trust charges. Conservative MP Lisa Raitt got unanimous consent for the statement of regret shortly after question period today. Watch: Norman was second-in-command of the Canadian military when he was charged in 2018 in…

TORONTO — The case of an Ontario woman who was murdered by her husband days after she filed for divorce underscores that victims of domestic violence face even greater danger when they try to leave their abuser, experts say. Elana Fric Shamji, 40, stayed with her abusive husband for more than a decade before serving…

TORONTO — The Ontario government is calling the federal government’s carbon tax a money drain in new TV attack ads paid for by taxpayers. “The federal government is charging you a carbon tax,” a narrator says over video of the price at a gas station rising. “You’re paying a nickel more per litre.” The government-produced…

OTTAWA — Ontario Liberal politician Marie-France Lalonde wants to run for Parliament to replace retired general Andrew Leslie in the Ottawa riding he’s vacating after just one term. Lalonde announced her intention to run federally Monday, saying she’s giving up thoughts of seeking the leadership of the Ontario Liberals because she wants to focus on…

Click Here: bapehoody TORONTO — The Toronto Wolfpack, no strangers to blazing a trail, are getting into the cannabidiol products business. The transatlantic rugby league team and its wholly owned subsidiary HowlBrands are partnering with Vancouver-based companies International Cannabis Corp. and Organic Flower Investments Group Inc. to launch a line of athlete-focused cannabidiol products. “CBD…

OTTAWA — A refugee from Ghana who lost all his fingers to frostbite crossing irregularly into Canada made an impassioned plea to MPs on Thursday to scrap proposed new asylum-seeker rules the Liberals want to turn into law. Seidu Mohammed’s story of crossing a snow-covered field between North Dakota and Manitoba focused attention on the…

WASHINGTON — Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he’s going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there. Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will land a robotic ship the size of a small house, capable of carrying four rovers…