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Montreal health authorities are trying to track up to 400 people they think may have been exposed earlier in the week to the measles virus.Authorities have confirmed two secondary cases of the virus linked to a child who contracted the disease abroad, the city’s public health director, Mylene Drouin, said Thursday.Anywhere between 200 and 400 people could have been exposed between May 11-14, she told reporters.Drouin published a list of locations the infected people visited along with the

Ricardo Duchesne is a professor at the University of New Brunswick, a publicly funded institution and Canada’s oldest English-language university. He teaches undergraduate sociology classes, holds tenure and has been quoted in The New York Times on immigration. He is also a white supremacist.Duchesne’s writings are filled with racist conspiracy theories, and he is a frequent contributor to white nationalist propaganda sites that feature articles defending slavery and eugenics. He has

“Game of Thrones” is coming to end on May 19, which is very good news for people who feel like the current six-episode season has been going on for one hundred years.This is a show that has, conservatively, a billion characters by this point. Given that just about all of them have complicated family ties, political affiliations, and blood feuds, it can occasionally be hard to keep track of it all. Even with the last, much-disputed season moving to its conclusion at a breakneck s

OTTAWA — The timing of competing Liberal and NDP motions this week to declare warming temperatures a “climate emergency” is no coincidence, according to Elizabeth May.
A breakthrough in P.E.I. followed by a Green Party win in Nanaimo—Ladysmith has brought  renewed attention to the federal party. And the Green Party leader thinks that’s a good thing for everyone.
“It means that the better Greens do, the more that the other parties are forced to think about

EDMONTON — A man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two Edmonton convenience store clerks.Colton Steinhauer is one of three people who robbed and killed the two Mac’s employees in December 2015.The jury has recommended consecutive sentences, meaning Steinhauer would not be eligible for parole for 50 years.Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 5 and 6.Working aloneRicky Cenabre and Karanpal Bhangu, both immigrants, were working alone on the night shift

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen is doing away with a policy implemented under the Harper government that aimed to tackle a large backlog of refugee claims by limiting rights for asylum-seekers from certain “safe” countries — a policy Hussen says created inequity in Canada’s asylum system.The policy divided refugee claimants into different categories, depending on where they were from. The Conservatives enacted it in 2012 as a way to deter “abus