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Ontario introduced sweeping changes Thursday to make it cheaper and easier for developers to build houses and rental buildings in the province. “Folks, we need to fix the housing crisis created by the labyrinth of Liberal red tape,” Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark said at an announcement in Scarborough, Ont. “Homes are…

OTTAWA — A Canadian senator who has spent four decades advocating for the rights of vulnerable people in Canadian prisons says a new bill that purports to end solitary confinement should be scrapped. Sen. Kim Pate says the Trudeau government’s Bill C-83 only offers a cosmetic rebranding of the practice of separating inmates from others…

REGINA — The federal government used a favourable court decision on its carbon tax Friday to put pressure on premiers who don’t like it to stop fighting it. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled in a split decision that the tax imposed on provinces without a carbon price of their own is constitutional. “Today’s decision…

A northern Ontario First Nation where a mother and four of her children died in a house fire this week has no effective means or equipment to fight fires, a spokesman said Friday as the community grappled with its loss. Sam McKay, spokesman for the chief and council of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation, said the…

OTTAWA — Canadian cigarette packs will have to be plain drab brown with standardized layouts and lettering under new rules that kick in next Nov. 9, Health Canada says. Officials said plain packages will increase the impact of graphic health warnings about the dangers of smoking, keeping them from getting lost amid colourful designs and…

OTTAWA — Donna May says she’ll no longer tolerate a nod or weepy eyes from politicians over the opioid epidemic—it’s claimed the lives of too many people she loves. May wants action in the form of drug decriminalization and she’s far from alone in her plea. The death of May’s 55-year-old brother a year ago…

A Conservative MP has been told to stop referring to the prime minister as “little potato” in the House of Commons. Pierre Poilievre earned the light scolding from House Speaker Geoff Regan in question period Wednesday. It was the third day in a row the Tory finance critic invoked the unusual nickname. “When leaders in…

TORONTO — Leaders from Kashechewan First Nation are looking to the Ontario government and even foreign ambassadors for support in relocating their community, which they say the federal government has delayed for years. “Our young people are getting really sick and tired of this,” Chief Leo Friday told reporters at Queen’s Park Monday. Kashechewan came…

The families of Canadians killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash last month launched a collection of lawsuits against Boeing on Monday, alleging the plane manufacturer put profits over safety when it rushed a new aircraft model to market. All 157 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft en route from…

EDMONTON — A skunky smell greeting travellers at Edmonton’s airport doesn’t mean stinky critters are running loose in the area. The scent is coming from the Edmonton International Airport’s new neighbour, Aurora Sky, one of the world’s largest cannabis facilities, which produces more than 100,000 kilograms of marijuana per year. Aurora Cannabis, the company that…