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Nova Scotia’s Long-term Care Workers Say the Province Is Misleading the Public About Their Ongoing Strike

For nearly three weeks, thousands of long-term care workers at over 30 facilities across Nova Scotia have been on strike for ...
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The Mixed Signals That Canada Post Workers Are Getting from Their Union

As voting gets under way on new collective agreements, CUPW's leadership is divided on whether members should accept the ...
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Sikh Groups Were Frustrated by Politicians’ Responses to the Targeting of Canadian Sikhs. So They Threatened to Bar Them from Photo Ops.

Moninder Singh, spokesperson for Sikh Federation Canada and the BC Gurdwara Council, told PressProgress that threatening to ...
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“Consolidation of Power” the Overarching Theme for Changes to Regional Governance in Ontario, Local Mayor Says

Ontario’s Recent Policy Changes Are Part of a Larger Pattern to Centralize Power and Silence Dissent, Critics Say Ford’s ...
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Members of a Controversial and Secretive Religious Sect Funded Third-Party Group Behind Anti-Trudeau Ads

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Canada Proud Launches Attack Ads Linking Mark Carney to ‘Notorious Pedophile’ Jeffrey Epstein

A third party group with close ties to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is running attack ads associating Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with Jeffrey Epstein’s “global child sex trafficking ...
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Alberta Won’t Budge on Charging Indigenous People for COVID Vaccines

Last June, Alberta’s United Conservative government announced that most people in the province would have to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming immunization season. Very few Albertans — ...
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This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’.

Is it ethical for a journalist to wear a wire to dinner and spy for a foreign intelligence agency at the same time as they’re writing for one of Canada’s biggest newspapers? Most experts on journalism ...
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How Doug Ford Plans to Dismantle Ontario’s Most Popular Provincial Park

Doug Ford’s provincial government is set to make changes to the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act as part of a move that would see the majority of the beachfront removed from Wasaga Beach ...
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Who Is ‘Take Back Alberta’ and What Do They Really Want?

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Pierre Poilievre Claims He’s Never Heard of ‘Diagolon’. He’s Not Telling the Truth. Here are the Receipts.

The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is having a hard time keeping his stories straight about a group of far-right extremists. Over the weekend, Pierre Poilievre left many scratching their ...
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Pierre Poilievre Meets with Far-Right Extremist Group at Nova Scotia-New Brunswick Border

Canada’s leader of the official opposition pulled over on the side of a highway Tuesday evening and paid a surprise visit to a group of far-right extremists who have staged protests at the Nova Scotia ...