Pregnant women from New Brunswick are travelling to Maine and
Montreal to obtain abortions after the province's only private abortion
clinic shut down last summer, angering pro-choice advocates who say the
government is moving too slowly in removing barriers to the service.
The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take
action on the environment following the release of a sweeping report
that suggests climate change is happening -- and it could have dire
effects on future generations.
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An Ottawa man facing extradition to France in a terrorism
case says the Supreme Court of Canada should hear his appeal due to
crucial questions about the use of untested intelligence in a criminal
prosecution.
A Pittsburgh newspaper was left scrambling to explain on
Sunday why a profile of former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi was
reprinted in an advertising supplement without mentioning the abuse
allegations that led to his termination.
New Brunswick was blasted with the region's first snowstorm
of the year on Sunday, causing power outages and prompting officials to
urge people to stay off roads.
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Dozens of Canadian Muslims gathered on the steps of the
Manitoba Legislative Building on Sunday afternoon to speak out against
the recent deaths of two Canadian soldiers.
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Police are investigating multiple incidents at a massive
student Halloween party in Quebec, where three sexual assaults were
reported and 12 young partygoers were taken to hospital with drug or
alcohol-related illnesses.
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A senior member of the opposition to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad's regime says Canada's time, effort and money would be better
spent training ground forces to retake territory from the Islamic State
in both Iraq and Syria, rather than on a bombing campaign.
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Canada is leading an international effort to pull together
the most effective ways to prevent suicide among aboriginal youth in the
Arctic, an ongoing tragedy across the circumpolar world.
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Friends, family, fellow officers and political leaders paid
their last respects to Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent on Saturday,
honouring the soldier who was killed in the first of two violent attacks
last month against Canadian Forces members.
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