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Protests, clashes across France after government pushes through pension change without vote
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French President Emmanuel Macron ordered his prime minister to wield a special constitutional power Thursday that skirts parliament to force through a highly unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote. His calculated risk — using Article 49.
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A Merritt, B.C., man says he was shocked to discover that notes from his physiotherapist in his official worker's compensation file used derogatory comments to describe him and his injuries.Robert Munro, 37, hurt his back in December while on the job, delivering furniture.
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A high-level human resources employee at the City of Markham has been placed on leave after she said and displayed the N-word while giving a guest lecture to students at George Brown College.
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim rejects 'insinuations' he won election due to Chinese interference
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim denounced what he said were "insinuations" made in a news article alleging Canada's spy agency found evidence of China's Vancouver consulate interfering in last year's municipal election.
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The RCMP says it will not commit to respecting a Gitxsan hereditary chiefs' decision banning the Mounties' Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) from unceded lands in northwest B.C.
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JP Pegues made a 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds remaining, and No. 13 seed Furman completed a rally from a 12-point second-half deficit to hand fourth-seeded Virginia another first-round NCAA Tournament loss, 68-67 on Thursday.
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Brad Jacobs is back. The news comes just a couple of months after Jacobs spared as third for Reid Carruthers at a Grand Slam event in Camrose, Alta. — Carruthers just a couple of weeks earlier announced he was parting ways with Jason Gunnlaugson and started looking for a replacement.
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Tyler Turner is speaking via Zoom from an Airbnb in La Molina, Spain, showing off a prosthetic snowboard foot and describing what it's like to defy the odds yet again to capture a second straight world title in para snowboard cross, despite missing most of the racing season adjusting to new prosthet
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But for the locals of the long cartel-held city, it was business as usual except for just one thing: the Americans were actually found. We'll hear what life alongside the Gulf Cartel is really like and the complex relationship between the community and these criminal organizations.
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Sask. First Act passes in front of gallery full of First Nations and Métis people opposed to bill
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Provincial government members voted unanimously to pass the Saskatchewan First Act on Thursday in front of a gallery full of First Nations and Métis community members who travelled to the legislature in opposition of the bill.
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An Ottawa-based private equity firm is buying MindGeek, the owner of Pornhub and other adult entertainment properties. The terms of the purchase by Ethical Capital Partners are not being publicly disclosed.
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He was sitting at his kitchen table in Amhersburg when a weather balloon landed in his yard
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Tom Delmore and Lyle Dorie certainly had an eventful Wednesday morning. Both Amherstburg men were in their kitchens, enjoying their morning routines, when they both spotted something in their respective backyards at about 9 a.m.
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Ottawa says Human Rights Commission discriminated against its Black and racialized employees
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The federal government says the Canadian Human Rights Commission discriminated against its own Black and racialized employees.
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'Let's not let madness triumph over hope': Premier Legault visits Amqui, Que., days after crash
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Premier François Legault tried to reassure and comfort the residents of Amqui, Que., Thursday, just days after a pickup truck slammed into pedestrians on the main street of the rural town on the Gaspé peninsula.
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Swiss-French artist Saype worked through heat and wind to create a huge one hectare painting in an Oman desert near a solar farm to get people thinking about the future of sustainable energy.
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This column is an opinion by Amelia Mola-Schmidt, a Canadian freelance reporter based in Prague, Czech Republic. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
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Canada's Federal Court saw more new immigration proceedings in 2022 than any of the past 30 years, which some lawyers say is a sign of an overburdened system.
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Opposition leaders question ties between PM and special rapporteur, repeat calls for public inquiry
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Two opposition leaders in the House of Commons are dismissing the newly named special rapporteur on foreign election interference as a "family friend" of the prime minister and are continuing to press the government to call a public inquiry.
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When Sarah Adams started her TikTok account Mom.Uncharted in 2021, her goal wasn't to share countless photos and videos of her newborn child. Rather, it was to confront that practice.
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Empire Company Ltd. says its net earnings hit $125.7 million in its latest quarter as its Sobeys supermarket chain rebounded from a November cyberattack. The results reported Thursday for the grocery store operator's third quarter compared with $203.
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Microsoft Corp. on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put artificial intelligence into the hands of more users, answering a spate of unveilings this week by its rival Google with upgrades to its own widely used office software.
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The Pentagon has released footage of what it says is a Russian aircraft conducting an unsafe intercept of a U.S. air force surveillance drone in international airspace over the Black Sea.
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Ontario pledges $29M to protect boreal caribou — but the spending isn't without criticism
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Ontario plans to spend $29 million to help protect an iconic — and threatened — species: boreal caribou. David Piccini, the provincial minister of environment, conservation and parks, made the announcement Wednesday at Lakehead University's campus in Thunder Bay, Ont.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is updating the naming system for variants of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — to better reflect Omicron's global dominance and track its ongoing evolution.
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You have to go all the way back to 1982 and a couple of disgruntled former Social Credit MLAs to find anybody who ran as an independent candidate and won in an Alberta election.
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