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‘Woolly’ the museum mammoth defiled with pink paint by climate activists
A statement issued by the new climate campaign “On2Ottawa” says washable pink paint was tossed at the tusks of the three-metre-tall mammoth to protest what it calls "criminal" federal government inaction on the climate emergency.
Trudeau Foundation will return donation with possible connection to China
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says it is returning $200,000 it received seven years ago after a media report alleged a potential connection to Beijing.
Alberta delivers budget, predicting big surplus, no new taxes
Alberta's United Conservative government delivered its last budget on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, before an election expected in May. It includes a $2.4-billion surplus and more spending in health care, education and justice.
B.C. offers free contraception to all residents
Advocates are celebrating news British Columbia will become the first in Canada to make prescription contraception free to all residents starting April 1.
B.C.'s budget praised for housing investment, criticized for lack of business support
The British Columbia government’s new budget will spend more as the economy shrinks.
Foreign interference protocol did a good job in 2021 election, report says
Former civil servant Morris Rosenberg says the panel created by the protocol did not find there was foreign interference in either the 2019 or 2021 elections that compared to the scale of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
Indigenous chiefs eager for $2.8B residential school settlement deal
First Nations leaders are voicing their formal support in Federal Court for a $2.8-billion settlement agreement to a class-action residential schools lawsuit.
MPs upset with Google after news access blocked for some Canadians
Some members of Parliament want to see Google in the hot seat over the tech company's move to temporarily block news access to some of its Canadian users.
B.C. Premier David Eby announces more supports to offset inflation
British Columbia Premier David Eby announced another round of the BC Affordability Credit on Saturday, February 25, 2023, to help offset inflation costs as he marked 100 days at the province's helm.
B.C. government faces class-action for coercing Indigenous women into sterilization
A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses the British Columbia government of "sexism and genocide" over a decades-long practice of coercing Indigenous women into sterilization and abortions.