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Independent agency probing CSIS after claim that operative smuggled teenage girls into Syria

An independent government agency is reviewing how Canada’s spy agency handles human sources after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in August to follow up on claims that an ISIS member who was also working as a CSIS operative smuggled three British teenagers into Syria in 2015. The three teens — Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and …

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Danielle Smith, the pundit turned premier, wants to self-immunize from her opinionated past

Last month, United Conservatives crowned a former media figure as Alberta’s premier for the first time since Ralph Klein.  Except, unlike Danielle Smith, Klein wasn’t just a few months out of the microphone-and-interviews racket when he began running Alberta in 1992. He’d spent a dozen years in politics, as Calgary …

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Canada to unveil new climate adaptation strategy today with more than $1-billion commitment: sources

Canada’s first climate adaptation strategy, to be unveiled today, will commit the federal government to new construction guidelines and standards in areas prone to flooding and wildfires. Environment and Climate Change Canada will unveil the strategy — which has been almost two years in the making — in Prince Edward …

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‘Half [of] me is dead’: A Ukrainian survivor of the Azovstal siege waits to reunite her family

Anna Zaitseva and her husband Kirilo had only a few stolen moments together last winter in a deep, dark underground shelter. Those fleeting, poignant reunions were over before they started. They happened amid the cacophony of shelling and earth-shaking airstrikes as the Russian military’s noose tightened around their hometown, the southern Ukrainian port city of …

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No Anne of Green Gables at Charlottetown Festival in 2023

Anne of Green Gables — The Musical, the centrepiece of the Charlottetown Festival for more than 50 years, will be produced only every other year from now on, with no production next year. Confederation Centre of the Arts made the announcement in a news release Thursday morning. The production base …

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A former Alberta justice minister claims videos of him are ‘fake.’ Not everyone agrees

Near the end of September, a series of videos were posted to social media that purported to show some familiar figures in Calgary’s political and legal worlds taking turns performing racist Indigenous caricatures. One video appeared to take place at a barbecue, and another around a table with open bottles …

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Kamloops doctor advocates for car-free zones around schools

A Kamloops pediatrician has approached the Kamloops-Thompson school board about creating car-free zones around schools to encourage more people in the B.C. Interior city to use their feet instead of a gas pedal. Dr. Trent Smith told CBC Daybreak Kamloops host Shelley Joyce that car-free zones around schools would alleviate …

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ਭਾਜਪਾ ਯੂਸੀਸੀ ਲਿਆਉਣ ਲਈ ਵਚਨਬੱਧ ਪਰ ਲੋਕਤੰਤਰੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਿਰਿਆ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ: ਸ਼ਾਹ

ਨਵੀਂ ਦਿੱਲੀ, 24 ਨਵੰਬਰ ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਗ੍ਰਹਿ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਅਮਿਤ ਸ਼ਾਹ ਨੇ ਅੱਜ ਕਿਹਾ ਕਿ ਭਾਜਪਾ ਯੂਨੀਫਾਰਮ ਸਿਵਲ ਕੋਡ (ਯੂਸੀਸੀ) ਲਿਆਉਣ ਲਈ ਵਚਨਬੱਧ ਹੈ ਪਰ ਸਾਰੀ ਲੋਕਤੰਤਰੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਿਰਿਆ ਪੂਰੀ ਹੋਣ ਅਤੇ ਇਸ ਉੱਪਰ ਚਰਚਾ ਹੋਣ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ। ਉਹ ਇੱਥੇ ਇਕ ਸਮਾਰੋਹ ਨੂੰ ਸੰਬੋਧਨ ਕਰ ਰਹੇ ਸਨ। ਇਸੇ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਲੱਦਾਖ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਰਹੱਦੀ ਵਿਵਾਦ …

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ਰਾਜਾ ਵੜਿੰਗ ਨੂੰ ਧਮਕੀ ਦੇਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਪਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਹਿਰੋਂ ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ ਕੇਸ ਦਰਜ

ਗਗਨਦੀਪ ਅਰੋੜਾ ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ, 24 ਨਵੰਬਰ ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਨੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਕਮੇਟੀ ਦੇ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਅਮਰਿਦੰਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਜਾ ਵੜਿੰਗ ਨੂੰ ਧਮਕੀਆਂ ਦੇਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਪਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਖਾਲਸਾ ਦੇ ਨੇੜਲੇ ਸਾਥੀ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਪਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਹਿਰੋਂ ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ ਸਰਕਾਰੀ ਹੁਕਮਾਂ ਦੀ ਉਲੰਘਣਾ ਕਰਨ ਸਮੇਤ ਆਰਮਜ਼ ਐਕਟ ਤਹਿਤ ਕੇਸ ਦਰਜ ਕਰ ਲਿਆ ਹੈ। ਕਮਿਸ਼ਨਰੇਟ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਨੇ ਏਸੀਪੀ (ਕ੍ਰਾਈਮ) …

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