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• Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou doesn’t want her case broadcast on TV — in case it attracts Trump

  28-11-2019 16:57 via Canada – National Post
  
  Lawyers for Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou are opposing the broadcast of her extradition proceedings in Canada, saying it'd raise the risk of U.S. President Donald Trump muddying her case. Read More
  
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• Support swells for Manitoba RCMP officer killed in collision

  15-12-2019 23:14 via : Canada
  
  Winnipeg police lined Portage Avenue with cruiser cars outside of the Manitoba RCMP headquarters Saturday in a display of solidarity after RCMP Const. Allan Poapst was killed in a two-vehicle crash Friday evening. 
  
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• Annual Christmas Bird Count now underway in Lethbridge

  15-12-2019 23:07 via : Canada
  
  The annual Christmas Bird Count is now underway in Lethbridge. The season starts on Dec. 14 and goes on until Jan 5.
  
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• Prince George, B.C. Teams Up With Amazon To Bait Package Thieves

  15-12-2019 23:03 via HuffPost Canada News
  Prince George, B.C. has come up with a creative way to catch porch pirates — thieves who nab delivered packages left at front doors. The city’s RCMP has partnered with retail giant Amazon to help reduce package theft, and the project is the first of its kind in Canada.A frontline officer with the police service, Const. Brent Benbow, reached out to the company about the community’s issues with the crimes. The retailer responded by sending equipment, packages and products to help
  
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• How to make gift-giving more sustainable

  15-12-2019 23:02 via : Canada
  
  According to a 2017 study by Zero Waste Canada, 540,000 tonnes of wrapping paper — the equivalent of the weight of 100,000 elephants or 4.5 CN Towers — ends up in landfills following the holidays.
  
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• Electric Car Sales In Ontario Plummet After Government Cancels Rebate

  15-12-2019 23:02 via HuffPost Canada News
  TORONTO — Sales of electric vehicles in Ontario have plummeted since the Progressive Conservative government cancelled a rebate last year, hampering progress toward a national target.In the first six months of this year, sales in Ontario were down more than 55 per cent from the same period in 2018, according to data from Electric Mobility Canada. In the second quarter of this year 2,933 electric vehicles were sold in the province, down from 7,110 in the same period last year.Ontario is the
  
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• New draft ethics guidelines for judges caution them about post-bench work

  15-12-2019 23:00 via CBC | Canada News
  
  Draft revisions to the Canadian Judicial Council's ethical principles for judges urge former federally appointment judges to use caution when providing legal advice in high-profile and politically contentious matters.
  
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• 'It's a milestone, I'm thrilled': B.C. survivor of conversion therapy applauds federal commitment to ban it

  15-12-2019 22:46 via CBC | Canada News
  
  Conversion therapy is widely-condemned practice that aims to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, seeking to "convert" them to heterosexual or cisgender, which means identifying with the sex assigned to them at birth.
  
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• Don Tremaine – longtime Nova Scotia broadcaster – dies at 91

  15-12-2019 22:33 via : Canada
  
  The obituary says a private celebration of life will be held at a later date.
  
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• B.C. couple gets $9 million jury verdict in bike wreck

  15-12-2019 22:17 via CBC | Canada News
  
  A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
  
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• Suspected alligator seen crossing Montreal street

  15-12-2019 22:10 via : Canada
  
  Mayssam Samaha says she was sitting by the window at Baristello cafe with her friends when they saw the reptile slowly crossing the busy street.
  
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• Canadian couple gets $9 million jury verdict in bike wreck

  15-12-2019 22:05 via CTVNews.ca - Canada - Public RSS
  
  A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
  
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• Ottawa extended status eligibility to hundreds of thousands over concerns the decision was rushed, documents show

  15-12-2019 21:55 via Canada – National Post
  
  OTTAWA — Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett opted to move ahead with extending eligibility for Indian status to possibly hundreds of thousands of people ahead of the last election, despite concerns from the federal bureaucracy about a lack of consultation and inadequate resources. Read More
  
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• Canada ‘very fortunate’ to have Vance as defence chief, minister says

  15-12-2019 21:41 via : Canada
  
  The comments come amid questions over whether the newly re-elected Liberal government plans to replace Vance, who was first appointed chief of the defence staff by Stephen Harper and is now in his fifth year in the position.
  
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• New Toronto Community Housing building features over 150 units

  15-12-2019 21:23 via : Canada
  
  Mayor John Tory said the building's design makes it indistinguishable from market-rate apartment or condo buildings in the city.
  
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• How a message in a bottle connected two families a world apart after tragedy

  15-12-2019 21:00 via CBC | Canada News
  
  Carolanne Riggs and her family in Burin will have some special visitors this Christmas, brought together by her daughter’s tragic death and a message that floated across the Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• Defence minister says Canada ‘very fortunate’ to have Vance as defence chief

  15-12-2019 20:49 via Canada – National Post
  
  OTTAWA -- Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says Canada is "very fortunate" to have someone like Gen. Jonathan Vance leading the Canadian Armed Forces. Read More
  
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• Escaped crocodile spotted crossing the street in Montreal's Villeray neighbourhood

  15-12-2019 20:44 via CBC | Canada News
  
  If you saw a crocodile crossing Jarry Street on Sunday afternoon, you weren't imagining things.
  
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• Longtime Nova Scotia broadcaster Don Tremaine dies

  15-12-2019 20:31 via CBC | Canada News
  
  Tremaine co-hosted Halifax's Information Morning from 1971 until he retired in 1987. He was also known as the announcer for several years on Don Messer's Jubilee.
  
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• One injured in Winnipeg car fire, no one hurt in burning house: WFPS

  15-12-2019 19:16 via : Canada
  
  Winnipeg Fire Paramedics responded to a car crash which erupted in flames, as well as a house fire Saturday evening.  
  
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• Police investigating after 21-year-old woman drowns in Mississauga

  15-12-2019 19:08 via : Canada
  
  Emergency crews were called to the area of Stavebank and Lakeshore roads in Port Credit at 10:50 p.m. 
  
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• Parker Street Food and Furniture Bank prepares Christmas hampers

  15-12-2019 18:41 via : Canada
  
  Last year the non-profit charity handed out over 900 hampers, and this year they're getting ready to help more families.
  
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• Park Street Food and Furniture Bank prepares Christmas hampers

  15-12-2019 18:41 via : Canada
  
  Last year the non-profit charity handed out over 900 hampers, and this year they're getting ready to help more families.
  
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• Photos on TTC buses pay tribute to impaired driving victims ahead of holidays

  15-12-2019 18:04 via : Canada
  
  "No one should ever lose their life or suffer the loss of a loved one due to this preventable crime.”
  
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• 3 men stabbed in Parc Extension break-in: Montreal police

  15-12-2019 18:02 via : Canada
  
  Police received a 911 call at approximately 10 p.m. to report the presence of four intruders in the residence on Durocher Street.
  
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• ‘Greedy Co-op’: Unifor launches nationwide boycott of Co-op retailers

  15-12-2019 17:55 via : Canada
  
  Unifor members will start picketing at Co-op locations across Canada in a boycotting campaign launched in Regina, Sask. on Sunday.
  
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• Former SNC-Lavalin Exec Sami Bebawi Found Guilty Of Fraud, Corruption

  15-12-2019 17:31 via HuffPost Canada News
  MONTREAL — A former SNC-Lavalin executive has been found guilty of paying off foreign officials and pocketing millions as he worked to secure contracts for the Canadian engineering company in Libya.A jury found Sami Bebawi, 73, guilty Sunday of all five charges he faced, including fraud, corruption of foreign officials and laundering proceeds of crime.Neither the accused nor his lawyer commented as they left the courtroom.Federal prosecutor Anne-Marie Manoukian declined to say what sentenc
  
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• The West Block – Episode 15, Season 9

  15-12-2019 17:30 via : Canada
  
  Watch the full broadcast of The West Block from Sunday, December 15, 2019 with Mercedes Stephenson.
  
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• Jagmeet Singh still mum on whether NDP will vote to ratify CUSMA trade deal

  15-12-2019 17:15 via : Canada
  
  The NDP Leader said he wants to talk to stakeholders who will be impacted before deciding.
  
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• Single-vehicle collision results in closure of Saskatoon’s Circle Drive

  15-12-2019 17:06 via : Canada
  
  A single-vehicle collision resulted in the closure of Circle Drive between 33rd Street and Airport Drive on Saturday night.
  
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