Doug Ford knocks back plan to sell off U.S. booze for charity
Isaac Callan / globalnews - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says selling off surplus American alcohol for charity is 'not as easy as it sounds,' knocking back a suggestion to raise funds for food banks.
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BREAKING: Calgary city council votes to begin process to repeal blanket upzoning
Myke Thomas / westernstandard - Calgary city council, after a long debate on Monday, voted 13 to 2 to direct administration to begin the work required to repeal blanket upzoning. Councillors voting against the notice of motion were Myke Atkinson and Nathanial Schmidt
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Federal minister says he's getting 'lots of inquiries' about MPs crossing the floor
David Baxter / nationalobserver - Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said people have reached out about the prospect after Michael Ma crossed to join the Liberals on Friday. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asserts that Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to secure a majority government thr…
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Quebec family doctors voting on new deal after province backtracks on reforms
Manoj Subramaniam / citynews - Quebec family doctors have until Friday to vote on a deal that would see the provincial government back down on several controversial reforms in a new law that changes how physicians are paid. The tentative deal would scrap performance-related penalties a…
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Young people in Quebec happier than those in rest of Canada
Manoj Subramaniam / citynews - Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal’s Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged. Outside Quebec, that is. Bujold’s home province is an outlier among data showing …
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Cabinet committee on internal savings to look at federal contracting in new year, Champagne says
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Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
sootoday - HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai , the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
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