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Feds put out call for third shipyard to join national shipbuilding strategy
The federal government has officially launched a search for a third shipyard to join a massive naval procurement process.
Evacuation of Alberta hamlet rescinded after CPR train derailment
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a train derailment in southeastern Alberta that forced people from their homes and the temporary closure of a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Ottawa opposing Saskatchewan's move to have top court delay carbon tax case
Ottawa is pushing back against Saskatchewan's request to have the Supreme Court of Canada delay hearing its challenge of the federal carbon tax.
Trudeau unveils housing agreement in Iqaluit to address housing crisis
The federal government has reached a new housing agreement with Nunavut to help address the housing crisis across the territory, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Groups seeking to suspend Quebec secularism law granted leave to appeal
Quebec's highest court agreed on Thursday, August 1, 2019, to hear an appeal on behalf of groups seeking to suspend the central parts of the province's secularism law.
No timeline for opening of natural passage for salmon bottleneck on Fraser River
Officials say they're working as quickly as possible but can't determine if they're on track to create a natural passage at the site of a Fraser River landslide that would allow salmon to reach their spawning grounds.
Saskatchewan wants Supreme Court to push back carbon tax appeal
The Saskatchewan government is applying to have its Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax pushed back.
Friends, co-workers mourn 4 members of same family found dead in Markham, Ont.
The four people found dead in a Markham, Ont., home over the weekend came from three generations of what appeared to be a happy family, friends said on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, as they mourned the victims of what police called a quadruple homicide.
Latest round in northern Manitoba hunt for B.C. murder suspects proves fruitless
A massive police manhunt for two British Columbia homicide suspects has ended without success in a remote northern Manitoba Indigenous community.
Nova Scotia Nature Trust acquires large parcel of coastal land in Cape Breton
The Nova Scotia Nature Trust says it has acquired the largest parcel of coastal land for conservation in its 25-year history.