鈥淓ven more significant than Mr. Klippert鈥檚 posthumous pardon may be the government鈥檚 promise to review all the cases of men who were convicted of gross indecency (homosexual acts short of intercourse) or buggery before 1969.鈥� ()
鈥淲ith the wind at his back from Paris and a fresh mandate from Canadians, Mr. Trudeau meets provincial and territorial leaders in Vancouver this week to pursue a national climate strategy.鈥� ()
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Published on: 29 Feb 2016
"June 23 has finally been set for the momentous 'in or out'聽British vote on whether to abandon the 28-nation European Union." ()
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Published on: 22 Feb 2016
"Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company鈥檚 chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December鈥檚 terrorist attacks in San Bernardino." ()
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Published on: 17 Feb 2016
"Rescuers wearing hard hats searched through rubble for survivors in northern Syria Monday after airstrikes hit two hospitals and a school building.聽The attacks killed at least 22 people, according to reports. Eight others are missing and presumed dead." (Source: )
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Published on: 16 Feb 2016
鈥淥n any given night, there are about 35,000 homeless people across Canada, and the number of families and children among them is growing at an alarming rate, a new report reveals.
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Published on: 15 Feb 2016
"Taxi and limousine drivers in Montreal are planning to block access to certain sites across the city Wednesday聽in protest against Uber." ()
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Published on: 10 Feb 2016
"The first direct detection of gravitational waves is聽now widely expected to be announced on 11 February聽by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Using LIGO's twin giant detectors 鈥� one in Livingston, Louisiana, and the other in Hanford, Washington 鈥� researchers are said to have measured ripples in space-time produced by a collision between two black holes." ()
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Published on: 10 Feb 2016
芦聽Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet in Cuba next week in a historic step to heal the 1,000-year-old schism that divided Christianity between East and West, both churches announced Friday.聽The Feb. 12 meeting between Francis and Patriarch Kirill will be the first ever between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Churches, which is the largest in Orthodoxy.聽禄 ()
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Published on: 5 Feb 2016
"A UN panel will conclude Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being "arbitrarily detained" in the UK, the Swedish foreign ministry has said." ()
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Published on: 4 Feb 2016
Phillipe Couillard mandated Fran莽ois Blais, the minister of Employment and聽Social Solidarity, to set up guaranteed minimum income in Quebec.聽(Source: )
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Published on: 1 Feb 2016
"On Monday, Iowa will kick off the 2016 race for the White House, a contest in which two fiery, fringe candidates from the left and right have hijacked the national imagination and undercut the political establishment." (Source: )
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Published on: 1 Feb 2016
"In a surprise move, the Bank of Japan has introduced a negative interest rate.聽The benchmark rate of -0.1% means that commercial banks will be charged by the central bank for some deposits." (Source: )
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Published on: 29 Jan 2016
"A new virus invading parts of Central and South America and now the Caribbean is causing concern among people living in and travelling to infected countries. Transmitted by the aggressive Aedes mosquito, the Zika virus has spread to at least 23 countries and will likely infect tens of millions of people in a few short years." ()
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Published on: 27 Jan 2016
"The federal government discriminates against First Nation children on reserves by failing to provide the same level of child welfare services that exist elsewhere, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled." (Source: )
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Published on: 26 Jan 2016
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