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Colin Perkel

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131 Articles

Class-action suit filed by northern Indigenous people against RCMP certified

A lawsuit alleging RCMP systematically brutalized Indigenous people in Northern Canada can proceed as a class action despite objections from the government, Federal Court ruled on Wednesday.
News | June 23rd 2021

Quarantines to ease for fully vaccinated travellers returning to Canada

News | June 9th 2021

Vaccinations put Canada on the path to reopening

More than half of all people in Canada have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as the country edges closer to lifting anti-pandemic restrictions, health authorities reported on Wednesday.
News | May 26th 2021

Ontario top court weighs in on endangered piping plover case

News | May 21st 2021

Will Canada's AstraZeneca stockpiles expire unused?

Impatience and a lack of clarity persisted Thursday over the fate of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire in the coming weeks.
News | May 20th 2021

COVID restrictions tightened for St. Patrick's Day in some provinces

Officials in many Canadian provinces are tightening anti-pandemic restrictions to keep St. Patrick's Day from becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader event.
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News, Politics | March 17th 2021

Government paid more than $3B to compensate 28K residential school victims: final report

The cost of compensating thousands of victims of Canada's notorious residential schools amounted to more than $3 billion, according to a report released on Thursday.
News, Politics | March 11th 2021

Ontario labour groups plead for help in face of record job losses due to COVID

News | February 18th 2021
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Tory election campaign ads violated CBC copyright, broadcaster says

The Conservative party's use of CBC news footage in a partisan attack ad and tweets was a copyright infringement damaging to the public broadcaster's integrity and impartiality, Federal Court heard on Thursday, February 11, 2021.
News | February 12th 2021

O'Toole urges U.S. envoy to Canada to save Line 5, Keystone XL pipelines

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole urged the acting American ambassador to Canada to tell Washington to preserve the Line 5 pipeline to the United States.
News, Energy, Politics | February 11th 2021
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