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Migrants across Canada call on Ottawa for action on regularization, permanent status

Thousands of migrants and their supporters held rallies across Canadian cities on Sunday to call on Ottawa to extend permanent status to undocumented people. There were also calls to swiftly implement an inclusive regularization program for undocumented migrants — a longstanding demand that advocates say appears closer than ever to …

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Biden says it was ‘irresponsible’ for Trump to keep classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

U.S. President Joe Biden says the discovery of top-secret documents at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised and called it “irresponsible.” Biden, who rarely does interviews, spoke to CBS program 60 Minutes in a segment that aired Sunday. He said that when he heard about …

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Queen Elizabeth is laid to rest as the world watches

Britain and the world said a final goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II at a state funeral Monday that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers — and crowds who massed along the streets of London to honour a monarch whose 70-year reign defined an age. Elizabeth’s funeral procession arrived …

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Fatality inquiry to begin into death of 37-pound Calgary teen killed by parents

A fatality inquiry is scheduled to begin this week, examining the circumstances that led to the prolonged and painful death of a teenager who was neglected and starved until he weighed less than 40 pounds. Alex Radita would be 24 years old today. When he died in 2013, he was …

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Indigenous leaders hope to restore the culinary and cultural bounty of ancient B.C. sea gardens

A family of sea otters emerges from the ocean and rambles up the rocky shoreline, while a great blue heron in search of a meal pokes at a wall of rocks. Fountains of water squirt upwards from clams that have buried themselves across the beach. Ken Thomas, standing on a …

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Watch the National Commemorative Ceremony for Queen Elizabeth on CBC.ca

Following the Queen’s funeral in London, a National Commemorative Ceremony will take place in Ottawa. It begins at 12:10 p.m. on Sept. 19 with a Canadian Armed Forces parade. That parade will feature CAF members from the air force, army, navy and special forces. They’ll depart Cartier Square Drill Hall, …

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‘It’s a slippery slope’: How young men fall into online radicalization

Reid Brown remembers the first time he got sucked in by the algorithm — he was just 13, watching videos after school when YouTube started pushing him to controversial content.  As time went on, the videos became increasingly extreme, says Brown, now 21.  “It started out pretty benign,” he recalls. …

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Lots of sniping in UCP leadership race, but so few shots fired over inflation

Many would-be successors to Premier Jason Kenney have gamely taken aim at him this campaign, from his past approaches toward COVID and Ottawa to his occasional interventions as lame-duck United Conservative Party leader with weeks left to go in his power seat. So what kind of dust did Kenney kick …

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Why Toronto city council is getting a rare chance at renewal in the upcoming election

As Toronto’s civic elections go, the 2022 vote will be a rare opportunity for dozens of candidates. The most incumbents in recent memory — seven of 25 councillors — are calling it quits.  That means Toronto is guaranteed seven new faces in the council chambers this fall. It’s been made possible …

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A Calgary couple has helped nearly 200 Ukrainian refugees fly to Canada with buddy pass program

Michael Garnett spent 10 years of his life playing hockey in Russia and loved everything about it. But when the country he had once called home invaded Ukraine — his ancestral homeland — earlier this year, his heart broke.  “I just shut down. I couldn’t believe that this country that I love — Russia —could just start …

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