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Ottawa will appoint commissioner to oversee treaties with Indigenous Peoples: Trudeau
GATINEAU, Que. — The federal government is planning to create a new agent of Parliament to oversee modern treaty implementation, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will ensure Ottawa is held to account no matter who is in power. He announced the plan to appoint a commissioner for modern treaty implementation Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., at a second annual meeting of self-governing Indigenous governments. "This is a lasting commitment to be a better treaty partner," he said. "To honour our ag
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Teen in critical condition after stabbing in Nepean
A teenage boy was rushed to hospital after a stabbing in Nepean on Monday, Ottawa paramedics say.Shortly after noon, Ottawa police wrote on social media that officers were conducting a police operation in the 100 block of Constellation Drive.The teenager was in critical condition at the time, Ottawa paramedics told CBC.The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board said a nearby high school did not go into lockdown following the stabbing.
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Second Boeing whistleblower found dead. Here’s a timeline of the company’s mounting problems.
This is the second Boeing whistleblower to die in the last two months.
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VideoJessica Pratt's latest album is a distinct shift from her austere sound
When Jessica Pratt released her debut self-titled album, which she boasts had virtually no post-production, the singer-songwriter was critically praised for her austere guitar and hypnotic voice. It should come as no surprise then that the indie musician is proceeding with caution as she embraces a more complex and refined sound on “Here in the Pitch," her fourth album, out Friday. The 37-year-old has often been compared to pioneering folk musicians like Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez, but she has
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VideoUkrainian energy workers struggle to repair damage from airstrikes on energy grid
The Associated Press on Thursday visited a plant owned by DTEK, Ukraine's biggest private energy supplier, days after a cruise-missile attack left parts of it severely damaged. AP was given access on special conditions. (AP video: Vasilisa Stepanenko)
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VideoStudent journalists are put to the test, and sometimes face danger, in covering protests on campus
On American campuses awash in anger this spring, student journalists are in the center of it all, sometimes uncomfortably so. (AP Video by Ted Shaffrey and Joseph B. Frederick)
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ECMAs a many-splendoured thing, say attendees
Award nominees, fans, and aspiring musicians gathered together at the centre of the action in downtown Charlottetown Wednesday for the first full day at the East Coast Music Awards.And, in a way, they were all looking for the same thing. The excitement, the unexpected, the somehow ungraspable of what happens at a large gathering of Atlantic Canada's best artists."I've met so many cool people," Tim Hatcher said.Hatcher is a member of Good Dear Good, a Nova Scotia band that has earned three nomina
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