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With portable toilets and barricades, Gaza protest camp at UBC digs in for long haul

With portable toilets and barricades, Gaza protest camp at UBC digs in for long haul

VANCOUVER — Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up an encampment at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver have brought in food, water and other supplies to prepare for what may become a protracted stay.
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Environment commissioner says liability for northern contaminated sites growing

Environment commissioner says liability for northern contaminated sites growing

Ottawa's slow progress to remediate contaminated sites in the North is leaving Indigenous Peoples at risk and raising the government's own financial liability for the polluted areas, environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco said Tuesday in a new audit.
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Grandparents, grandchild among 4 dead in wrong-way 401 pursuit crash

Grandparents, grandchild among 4 dead in wrong-way 401 pursuit crash

Two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on a busy stretch of Highway 401 on Monday night after a van being chased by police east of Toronto crashed while going the wrong way, causing a multi-vehicle collision.
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McGill requests 'police assistance' to remove pro-Palestinian encampment on campus

McGill requests 'police assistance' to remove pro-Palestinian encampment on campus

MONTREAL — McGill University has asked Montreal police for help to dismantle an encampment of pro-Palestinian activists who are refusing to leave its downtown campus.
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Spy watchdog warns of 'significant legal risks' if cyberops breach international law

Spy watchdog warns of 'significant legal risks' if cyberops breach international law

OTTAWA — Canada's electronic spy agency needs to clearly spell out how its operations in cyberspace comply with international law, says a new watchdog report.
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Federal government must track progress toward zero plastic waste goal: audit report

Federal government must track progress toward zero plastic waste goal: audit report

OTTAWA — Most federal programs aimed at reducing plastic waste are working, but the government isn't measuring its progress toward its overall goal of zero plastic waste by 2030, according to a new audit from Canada's environment commissioner.
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Capital gains tax changes not included in Freeland's proposed budget legislation

Capital gains tax changes not included in Freeland's proposed budget legislation

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland intends to ask Parliament to approve proposed changes to capital gains taxation in a stand-alone bill — a move that will force the federal Conservatives to take a specific position on the measure.
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Justice minister says recent protest over Israel-Hamas war at his home crossed a line

Justice minister says recent protest over Israel-Hamas war at his home crossed a line

OTTAWA — Justice Minister Arif Virani says protesters who took their cause to his home over the weekend crossed a line.
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Virani says Poilievre's willingness to use notwithstanding clause threatens rights

Virani says Poilievre's willingness to use notwithstanding clause threatens rights

OTTAWA — The notwithstanding clause should only be used as a measure of last resort, Canada's justice minister said Tuesday, after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggested he wouldn't hesitate to wield it to enact tougher criminal laws.
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'All options still on the table' for limiting plastics production: Guilbeault

'All options still on the table' for limiting plastics production: Guilbeault

OTTAWA — All options to eliminate plastic waste are still on the table in negotiations for a global plastic treaty, including putting legislated caps on how much plastic the world produces in the first place, Canada's environment minister said Tuesda
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