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Inside the secret mission to bring Afghanistan’s last female politicians to Canada

They left their country for the last time in the dark of the early morning. Women and children crammed into a van. Heads covered, their faces masked so they didn’t attract attention at Taliban checkpoints. Former female politicians in Afghanistan, the women in the vehicle face an extraordinary threat from …

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Quebec ‘secret trial’: Supreme Court partly allows appeal by media

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 7, 2024 10:28 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Supreme Court of Canada has partly upheld an appeal from the media over a so-called secret trial in Quebec involving a police informant. The high court ruled …

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Ford government wins battle to keep health-care staffing shortage figures secret

The Ford government has won a privacy battle to keep the extent of its nursing, personal support worker and physician shortage secret after Ontario’s privacy watchdog ruled that revealing them could be economically damaging. In September 2022, Global News filed and subsequently appealed a freedom of information request with the …

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‘Unknown trouble’ call leads officers to secret drug lab in Richmond Hill: police – Toronto

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police responding to an “unknown trouble” call discovered a drug lab inside a Richmond Hill home, leading to the arrest of a man who was on probation and bail, officers say. York Regional Police said officers responded to a townhouse in the …

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The Last Commando, Second World War veteran who inspired James Bond, turns 100

The motorcycles had filled up a long stretch of parking in the southwestern Ontario town of Tillsonburg, long enough that then-98-year-old Tom Boneham and his caregiver/friend Christine Grim had to walk around them. Boneham noticed a patch on one of their jackets that said “30 Commando.” “I’m in charge of …

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This old Victorian home has a secret: it’s part of the Montreal Metro system

Unlike its neighbours, the house at 1423 Towers St. in downtown Montreal seems to have withstood the test of time. While its stone Victorian walls appear unchanged, the building itself is hiding a secret: it’s not a house at all — at least, not anymore.  For years, Montreal’s transit authority …

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Secret Service texts from day of Capitol riot were erased, U.S. government watchdog says

Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol even after an inspector general requested them as part of an investigation into the insurrection, the government watchdog has found. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG), in …

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Opposition MPs call for more transparency about secret orders-in-council

Opposition MPs are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be more transparent about secret orders-in-council his government has adopted. New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh said a lack of transparency erodes trust in government institutions. He said the national security exemption for keeping such orders-in-council secret should be used judiciously. …

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Trudeau government has adopted dozens of secret cabinet orders since coming to power

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has adopted 72 secret orders-in-council — hidden from Parliament and Canadians — since coming to office, CBC News has learned. A review by CBC News of nearly 8,900 orders-in-council (OICs) — or cabinet decrees — adopted by the federal government shows the number of secret or unpublished OICs has been …

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Canada’s top court to hear appeal on whether or not to keep Doug Ford’s mandate letters secret

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the Ontario government’s appeal on whether or not it will be able to keep PC Leader Doug Ford’s mandate letters secret. Had Canada’s top court refused to hear the case, the provincial government would have had to release Ford’s 23 mandate letters  — which, combined, run about 150 pages …

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