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Alberta's premier criticized the leader of the United Conservative Party on Monday for a comment he made last year equating the work of a lawyer fighting gay-straight alliance legislation with that of civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
In 2017, UCP Leader Jason Kenney spoke at an event organized by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms event, where he compared founder John Carpay's work to that of Parks and asked people to donate to Carpay's organization.
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An Ottawa-area farmer is planning to send more than 900 kilograms of potatoes to Iqaluit after a fire ravaged one of the city’s only grocery stores.
Mike Milsom of Mike's Garden Harvest has been sending organic potatoes to the northern community every week for a while now, but says his latest shipment will be a donation.
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OTTAWA -- The federal government needs to appoint a special representative to hear from Indigenous women coerced into being sterilized to learn what justice would look like for the survivors, says Amnesty International Canada.
The human-rights organization, which plans to take the issue to the United Nations Committee Against Torture this month, insists there must be action from the federal government, the provinces and territories, and medical regulators.
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LAVAL, Que. -- When her two daughters were found dead in the family playroom on March 31, 2009, dressed in their school uniforms, Adele Sorella was going through a difficult time, a jury heard Monday.
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