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Members of Parliament lost an entire day of work in the House of Commons after a voting marathon forced by the Conservatives, after sneaking in bites of burgers and Christmas card-writing overnight. The voting ended late Friday, with the House adjourned until Monday. The non-stop voting on 135 spending measures, which happened both in person […]

About one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection, according to a Statistics Canada report issued Friday. That amounts to 3.5 million Canadians, it said. Almost 80 per cent of those people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more, the report said. In addition, more than half of […]

Cindy Woodhouse became the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations on Thursday, when she pleaded with Canadians to support the people she represents — and warned them to pay attention. “You have to work with First Nations people in a good way,” said Woodhouse, who had been Manitoba regional chief for the […]

Food prices will keep rising in 2024, though at a slower pace, according to the latest Food Price Report. The 14th annual report by Dalhousie University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Guelph and the University of Saskatchewan predicted that food prices will rise between 2.5 per cent and 4.5 per cent next year as […]

Defence lawyers are expected to present their case today in the murder trial of a former Saskatchewan Mountie.  Bernie Herman, who is 55, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Braden Herman.  The two men are not related.  Braden Herman’s naked body was found in a park on the outskirts of Prince […]

Assembly of First Nations organizers sent delegates home without a new national chief late Wednesday after six rounds of balloting failed to produce a winner with enough votes to clear the 60 per cent threshold necessary for victory.   With just 15 minutes to spare before Ottawa’s downtown Shaw Centre had to close for the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as “All in the Family” and “Maude” and propelled political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms, has died. He was 101. Lear died Tuesday night in his sleep, surrounded by family at […]

A special meeting of the Assembly of First Nationskicked off in Ottawa on Tuesday, as chiefs get ready to elect a new leader. Hundreds of delegates flocked to a downtown Ottawa convention centre, where candidates for national chief were getting ready to plead their final case to those preparing to decide their fate. The election […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT (yes, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly […]

Crown prosecutors say they expect to call five witnesses today during the first-degree murder trial of a former Saskatchewan Mountie. Bernie Herman is on trial for the 2021 death of 26-year-old Braden Herman.  The two are not related.  Braden Herman’s body was found in an isolated area of Little Red River Park, on the outskirts of Prince […]