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• Coming out: The largest hurdle in sports? Paul Émile d’Entremont’s NFB doc Standing on the Line makes its Quebec premiere in Montreal.

  29-11-2019 00:13
  While continuing to screen at festivals across Canada, the NFB-produced feature documentary Standing on the Line (Franchir la ligne) by Paul Émile d’Entremont will have its Quebec premiere in Montreal on Saturday, November 30, at 3 p.m. at Concordia University’s Alexandre-de-Sève Cinema, in its original English and French version with French subtitles. The screening will be attended by the filmmaker and one of the film’s subjects, former hockey player Brock McGill
  
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• Police charge Ottawa pharmacy owner with sexual assault in 2018 incident

  09-12-2019 23:43 via : Canada
  
  Investigators 'strongly believe' there are more victims, and encourage anyone who may have a claim in the case to contact authorities.
  
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• Province backs Point Lepreau as N.B. site for small modular nuclear reactors

  09-12-2019 23:34 via : Canada
  
  The news comes just a week after New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing SMR technology.
  
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• Loyalist Township firefighters battle barn blaze in Wilton, Ont.

  09-12-2019 23:20 via : Canada
  
  All four horses inside the barn were able to escape the flames.
  
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• Paul LaPolice ready for another run as CFL head coach with Ottawa Redblacks

  09-12-2019 23:14 via : Canada
  
  "I will say this, we will leave no stone unturned in our game planning, our preparation and our willingness to work on a daily basis to put us in a position to win championships," LaPolice said Monday.
  
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• Walmart Canada pulls sweater of Santa with what looks like cocaine

  09-12-2019 23:01 via CBC | Canada News
  
  Walmart Canada apologized on Monday for listing on its website a Christmas sweater that featured an illustration appearing to depict Santa getting ready to snort cocaine. 
  
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• Doug Downey Walks Back Additional Cuts Planned For Legal Aid Ontario

  09-12-2019 23:01 via HuffPost Canada News
  TORONTO — Ontario’s attorney general said he would backtrack on some planned cuts to legal aid as he unveiled a suite of changes to the justice system Monday. The province’s Progressive Conservative government had announced in its 2019 budget that it would slash $164 million in funding — almost half of Legal Aid Ontario’s 2018 provincial funding — over the next three years. The $133-million cut made this year will stay in place but a planned $31-mill
  
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• TRIBUNAL INITIATES EXPIRY REVIEW— CONCRETE REINFORCING BAR FROM CHINA, KOREA AND TURKEY

  09-12-2019 23:00
  Ottawa, Ontario, December 9, 2019—The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today initiated an expiry review of its finding made on January 9, 2015, in Inquiry No. NQ-2014-001, to determine if the continued or resumed dumping of concrete reinforcing bar from the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Turkey and subsidizing of concrete reinforcing bar from the People’s Republic of China are likely to result in injury.
  
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• Itinerary for Minister of Foreign Affairs for Tuesday, December 10, 2019

  09-12-2019 22:59
  The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will participate in the Alliance for Multilateralism conference on Advocating Human Rights in the 21st Century held on December 10, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.
  
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• Officers found not negligent in overdose death of teen Carson Crimeni

  09-12-2019 22:50 via CBC | Canada News
  
  The delayed response of two officers in finding a 14-year-old boy who died in August from an overdose at a Langley skate park did not play a role in the boy's death, according to a report released Monday by the province's police watchdog.
  
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• Rockland teen charged with assault after ‘altercation’ with adult: OPP

  09-12-2019 22:36 via : Canada
  
  Provincial police allege the 13-year-old boy was involved in 'altercation' with an adult on Rochon Street in Rockland in the early hours of Dec. 4, 2019.
  
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• Conservatives ramp up calls for Huawei ban amid security questions

  09-12-2019 22:33 via : Canada
  
  The Liberals delayed making a decision on whether to let the Chinese tech firm into the 5G spectrum.
  
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• New NAFTA Deal Appears Close After Months-Long Stalemate In U.S. Congress

  09-12-2019 22:26 via HuffPost Canada News
  OTTAWA — A deal to revise the new North American free-trade agreement appears close following a busy weekend, with hopes Canada, Mexico and the United States will approve a rewritten treaty in the next 24 hours.The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement was signed by the three countries last year, but U.S. ratification has been stalled for months as congressional Democrats and organized labour have pushed to strengthen its labour-enforcement provisions against Mexican objections.There were
  
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• Sewer backup forces $100,000 in damages at Shediac crisis centre

  09-12-2019 22:19 via : Canada
  
  Kristal LeBlanc, the centre's executive director, says storage bins used for items that were going into the basement were only removed last week after more than $100,000 in damages.
  
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• Statement by Patrick Borbey, President of the Public Service Commission of Canada

  09-12-2019 22:10
  Statement by Patrick Borbey, President of the Public Service Commission of Canada
  
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• Bianca Andreescu, Tennis Star, Is Named Canada's Athlete Of The Year

  09-12-2019 22:09 via HuffPost Canada News
  TORONTO — Tennis star Bianca Andreescu has won the 2019 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year.Andreescu is the first tennis player to win the award. The native of Mississauga, Ont., became the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title when she defeated American star Serena Williams in the final of the U.S. Open.“Wow, I’m so thankful for this award. I was not expecting it and to be the first tennis player to win is even more surreal,” said Andr
  
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• Pats players shower kids at Regina General Hospital with teddy bears

  09-12-2019 22:06 via : Canada
  
  The Regina Pats collected 2,014 stuffed animals during their annual Teddy Bear Toss Night on Saturday.
  
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• Guelph vehicle fire sends 1 to hospital with smoke inhalation

  09-12-2019 22:06 via : Canada
  
  The Guelph Fire Department says someone was sent to hospital after trying to extinguish a vehicle fire on Monday night.
  
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• Baby undergoes surgery after choking on Christmas decoration

  09-12-2019 22:01 via : Canada
  
  After a baby girl swallowed a confetti star, doctors are warning parents about holiday decor that can pose a danger.
  
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• University of Waterloo gets $2.1 million from Toyota

  09-12-2019 22:00 via : Canada
  
  The University of Waterloo says it has been gifted $2.1 million from Toyota Canada.
  
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• Canadian diagnosed with brain tumour in Thailand has travel insurance declined because he had the flu a month ago

  09-12-2019 21:58 via CTVNews.ca - Canada - Public RSS
  
  A Canadian man diagnosed with a massive brain tumour while travelling in Thailand is fighting to get home after his travel insurance was declined because he told doctors he had a headache while suffering from the flu over a month ago.
  
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• Death of an inmate from Stony Mountain Institution

  09-12-2019 21:56
  On December 8, 2019, Tyson Roulette, an inmate at the Stony Mountain Institution died while in our custody.
  
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• Conservatives push Liberals to make a decision on Huawei

  09-12-2019 21:52 via CBC | Canada News
  
  The Conservatives are urging the Liberal government to make a decision soon on whether Chinese tech giant Huawei will be allowed to join Canada's next-generation 5G wireless network. 
  
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• Federal Court sides with man who says he was discriminated against because he's straight

  09-12-2019 21:42 via CTVNews.ca - Canada - Public RSS
  
  The Federal Court of Canada ruled in favour of a man who worked in a CIBC call centre who said he was discriminated against for being straight, and ordered the Canadian Human Rights Commission to conduct a new investigation.
  
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• Court orders new investigation for straight man who alleged discrimination at work

  09-12-2019 21:42 via CTVNews.ca - Canada - Public RSS
  
  A Federal Court judge has ordered Canada’s human rights watchdog to re-investigate claims from a former CIBC employee who said he was discriminated against on the job because he wasn't gay.
  
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• Quebec sexual assault victims will soon have access to free legal aid

  09-12-2019 21:37 via : Canada
  
  Survivors of sexual assault in Quebec will soon have greater access to legal aid as part of a new pilot project in the province.
  
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• Kingston police looking for vehicle involved in hit-and-run with city bus

  09-12-2019 21:34 via : Canada
  
  Kingston police say the vehicle may have damage to the front end.
  
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• More municipal services needed for future expansion, jobs at Peterborough airport

  09-12-2019 21:29 via : Canada
  
  Cavan Monaghan and Peterborough mayors are trying to find a scenario that works for both municipalities for the city-owned airport, located in the township.
  
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• Transcontinental CEO calls bid to ban flyers in Montreal ‘impractical’

  09-12-2019 21:08 via : Canada
  
  The CEO of Transcontinental Inc. says the proposal to drastically cut down on mail flyers is ``insensitive, incoherent and impractical.''
  
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• Saint-Polycarpe 2018 train derailment prompted by inadequately secured cargo: TSB

  09-12-2019 20:42 via : Canada
  
  The train derailment occurred in July 2018.
  
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