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• We still need America, and other truths from former MP Candice Bergen

  06-04-2025 15:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  The Conservative stalwart asks: 'Who gave (Mark Carney) the mandate to say we’re cutting off our relationship with the U.S.?'
  
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• ‘She deserves justice’: Tanya Nepinak’s aunt pushes for expanded search of Brady Landfill

  14-04-2025 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  Nepinak is believed to have been murdered in 2012 and her remains taken to Brady Road landfill. Her aunt wants a promised search for Ashlee Shingoose to be expanded.
  
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• Trump’s tariff pause on electronics boosts Canada, U.S. market gains

  14-04-2025 23:47 via globalnews.ca
  U.S. President Donald Trump has temporarily exempted electronics like smartphones and computers from some tariffs, which could lead to higher prices on Chinese imports.
  
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• History can help us try to understand Donald Trump’s tariffs, professor says

  14-04-2025 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  While the 1930 Smoot Hawley Tariff act was mentioned as a beacon of hope for Americans by Donald Trump, history show's the law's history has become misconstrued over time
  
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• Elver fisher from Millbrook First Nation charged for allegedly assaulting officer

  14-04-2025 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  A man from Nova Scotia's Millbrook First Nation faces charges of assaulting and obstructing a fishery officer.
  
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• Canada election: Here’s how to watch the federal leaders’ debates

  14-04-2025 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  The federal party leaders are expected to face off in French and English language election debates just days before Canadians can start voting in advanced polls.
  
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• Carney says pipelines 'not necessarily' among major projects to prioritize

  14-04-2025 22:45 via nationalpost.com
  
  MONTREAL — Liberal leader Mark Carney says pipelines are “not necessarily” the large projects his government would prioritize to deal with the “crisis” of the trade war with the United States. On Sunday, both Carney and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre were interviewed on Tout le monde en parle, a very popular televised Quebec talk show on Radio-Canada. While both guests brought talking points that were so similar they earned a remark from host Guy A. Lepage &m
  
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• Chris Selley: Poilievre has a great case for the notwithstanding clause. He'll need to make it

  14-04-2025 22:34 via nationalpost.com
  
  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had long ago expressed appreciation for the notwithstanding clause, which allows legislators to override some sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. So it should have come as no surprise that on Monday he vowed to use the so-called “override clause” to reinstate consecutive life sentences for multiple murderers. By rights, it should be something of a slam-dunk for the Conservatives. “The worst mass murderers should never be allowed
  
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• ‘Unfortunate oversight’: Ontario university sends out admission email to wrong applicants

  14-04-2025 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Ontario University has apologized after sending an email to nearly half of graduate program applicants. The message was intended for those who had already been accepted.
  
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• Top prospect Ivan Demidov to make Canadiens debut against Blackhawks

  14-04-2025 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Demidov had been expected to join the Canadiens next season, but signed an entry-level contract last week after he was suddenly released by SKA Saint Petersburg.
  
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• Religious teacher charged in series of alleged sexual assaults in Ontario

  14-04-2025 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police say an Ontario religious teacher who taught classes at a residence in Pickering has been charged in a series of sexual assaults involving two victims.
  
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• Body of missing truck driver located in Okanagan Lake following massive mudslide

  14-04-2025 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR) said in the days following the slide, a person was reported missing who was expected to be driving Westside Road when the slide happened.
  
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• Trump suggests auto industry might receive tariff reprieve

  14-04-2025 21:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  President Donald Trump suggested he may temporarily exempt the auto industry from the tariffs he imposed on the sector to give carmakers time to adjust their supply.
  
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• Toronto’s ‘cherry blossom watch’ says it’s almost time for popular spring pilgrimage

  14-04-2025 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Toronto's largest public park says its famous cherry blossom trees are showing their first signs of impending bloom.
  
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• Scientists are solving the problem of urinal splashback, one drop at a time

  14-04-2025 21:30 via nationalpost.com
  Researchers at the University of Waterloo have new designs for urinals they say reduce the amount of splatter or “splashback” to just 1.4 per cent of the standard public model. Dubbed the Cornucopia and the Nautilus, the urinals are designed so that the “impinging stream angle” remains below 30 degrees, significantly reducing “the flow rate of splashback under human urination conditions.” Zhao Pan, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Me
  
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• Planning a spring home project? Why you should factor in Trump tariffs

  14-04-2025 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  The U.S. and Canadian construction industries are highly interlinked and experts warn that a trade war could make home renovations costlier.
  
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• Manitoba 'repatriating' some hydro exports from U.S. to power Canadian projects instead

  14-04-2025 20:56 via cbc.ca
  
  Manitoba will cancel some of hydroelectricity exports to the U.S. in an effort to power more homegrown projects, Premier Wab Kinew says.
  
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• Mark Carney could replace Sir Charles Tupper as Canada’s shortest-serving prime minister

  14-04-2025 20:48 via nationalpost.com
  
  If Mark Carney and the Liberals fail to retain power in this election, the former banker and economist will add a new entry to his much-ballyhooed resume: Canada’s shortest-serving prime minister ever. Carney, who has served 31 days as head of government as of April 14, is technically already the shortest-serving, but with his political future undetermined until April 28, Sir Charles Tupper’s 68 days in office as Canada’s sixth prime minister in 1896 still stands as the offici
  
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• Carney could replace Sir Charles Tupper as Canada’s shortest-serving prime minister

  14-04-2025 20:48 via nationalpost.com
  
  If Mark Carney and the Liberals fail to retain power in this election, the former banker and economist will add a new entry to his much-ballyhooed resume: Canada’s shortest-serving prime minister ever. Carney, who has served 31 days as head of government as of April 14, is technically already the shortest-serving, but with his political future undetermined until April 28, Sir Charles Tupper’s 68 days in office as Canada’s sixth prime minister in 1896 still stands as the offici
  
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• Debates commission defends inviting Greens despite party's candidate shortage

  14-04-2025 20:43 via cbc.ca
  
  The Leaders' Debates Commission is defending its decision to invite Green Party co–leader Jonathan Pedneault to this week's debates, even though the party is well short of a full slate of candidates.
  
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• Guerrero Jr. celebrates becoming 'a Blue Jay forever' after inking historic extension

  14-04-2025 20:38 via cbc.ca
  
  Friends, family, teammates and members of the team's front office joined him at Rogers Centre for a celebratory news conference after Vladimir Guerrero Jr. signed a 14-year contract extension worth $500 million US on Monday.
  
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• NDP’s Singh pledges to hire 35,000 nurses by 2030

  14-04-2025 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  While health-care staffing is a provincial responsibility, the party said it would tie new federal health transfers to hiring and retention strategies.
  
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• Manitoba to redirect U.S. hydro exports to Canadian projects: Kinew

  14-04-2025 20:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  The provincial government issued a directive to redirect some expiring electricity export contracts with the United States to provide power to homegrown projects here in Canada.  
  
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• 'The truth hurts': Poilievre wouldn't be losing if he had my campaign manager, Doug Ford says

  14-04-2025 19:51 via nationalpost.com
  
  OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford fired off another salvo in the on-again, off-again battle between his provincial Progressive Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party, saying his own campaign manager would have avoided the federal party’s current election woes. With the Conservatives lagging behind Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s party since the beginning of the campaign, after enjoying a huge polling lead for the better part of two years, Poilievre’s
  
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• Poilievre eyes notwithstanding clause for consecutive murder sentences

  14-04-2025 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Poilievre announced his plan to use the notwithstanding clause to pass legislation that would allow consecutive sentences for multiple murders.
  
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• Body of missing scuba diver found in water in Kingston, Ont.

  14-04-2025 18:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario Provincial Police say emergency crews responded on Sunday to the shore along Ontario and Lower Union streets for a scuba diver in distress on the surface of the water. 
  
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• Liberal staffers planting ‘stop the steal’ buttons ‘unacceptable’: Carney

  14-04-2025 18:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  Liberal Leader Mark Carney said the planting of the buttons at a conservative conference was 'totally unacceptable,' with the party saying it had launched a review.
  
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• Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario evacuating dozens amid spring flooding threat

  14-04-2025 18:14 via cbc.ca
  
  Kashechewan First Nation has declared a state of emergency as the threat of spring flooding looms over the community on northern Ontario's James Bay Coast.
  
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• Supreme Court to consider if COVID travel bans violated charter mobility rights after woman missed mother's funeral

  14-04-2025 18:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  The Supreme Court of Canada will consider an unprecedented appeal this week about whether Canadians have the constitutional right to move freely throughout the country. Kimberley Taylor, who was denied entry into Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic to attend her mother’s funeral, contends that the province’s travel ban breached her mobility guarantee protected by the Charter of Rights. “Denying the right of entry into a province strikes at the heart of the Canadian i
  
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• New Brunswick announces ‘comprehensive review’ of NB Power

  14-04-2025 17:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  The New Brunswick government has announced it will begin a "comprehensive review" of NB Power, amid complaints of high rates and spikes in power bills. 
  
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