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PM, ministers wrap retreat focused on challenging fall agenda
Trudeau's ministers bunked together in student dorms as they focused on the agenda for what promises to be a gruelling fall.
Quebec transport minister resigns amid scandal over sale of hardware chain
The transport minister had faced mounting criticism in recent months over his alleged role in authorizing the sale of a Quebec hardware chain, Rona, to American giant Lowe's.
Arsenic has changed Giant Mine site in N.W.T. 'indefinitely:' scientist
Jules Blais of the University of Ottawa says analysis of a small lake on the edge of the mine lease shows important plants and insects have been wiped out by arsenic contamination.
Fahmy recommends families take proactive approach to free detained loved ones
The journalist says government assistance is key in freeing a Calgary imam detained in Turkey and a Montreal professor arrested in Iran.
Actress Emma Thompson visits Nunavut hamlet in fight against seismic testing
Thompson is part of a Greenpeace delegation spending two weeks in Clyde River, Nunavut, about halfway up the eastern coast of Baffin Island.
Liberals move to reassure Canadians on terrorism
Ralph Goodale is to visit a Montreal centre devoted to preventing radicalization that leads to violence.
Severe storms uproot trees and knock down fences in parts of Ontario
Some residents of southern and eastern Ontario were treated to Mother Nature's wrath Saturday night as some severe thunderstorms passed through the region.
NDP wants review of Jason Kenney fundraising, Elections Alberta says it can't
Alberta NDP Provincial Secretary Roari Richardson said the review should also include Unite Alberta, Kenney’s provincial political organization.
Health Canada sets rules for patients wanting to grow their own marijuana
The new rules will allow people who have been authorized by their doctor to use medicinal cannabis to grow a limited amount of marijuana for their personal use.
Part of pipeline in Husky oil spill in Saskatchewan sent for testing
Laurie Pushor, deputy minister of the economy in Saskatchewan, says provincial officials supervised as the line was purged, cut and taped and the segment in question removed.