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Canadian airlines could 'fail' if forced to refund passengers, says transport minister
Transport Minister Marc Garneau says that Canadian airlines could go bankrupt if the ailing industry is compelled to refund passengers billions of dollars for flights cancelled due to the pandemic.
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Ashley Burke
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Ottawa looking at how to reunite families separated by border closure, says Trudeau
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Catharine Tunney
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Ottawa announces $650M in new COVID-19 funding for Indigenous communities
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Jorge Barrera
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New
Garneau says Iran still hasn't released black boxes from airliner shot down in January
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Ottawa extends large cruise ship ban until October to limit COVID-19 spread
The cruise-ship season in Canada is all but sunk as Ottawa extends its ban on large ships in Canadian waters until the end of October in an attempt to contain COVID-19.
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MacKay, O'Toole pitch pandemic recovery plans heavy on tax incentives, fiscal prudence
The two leading contenders to replace Andrew Scheer as leader of the Conservative Party have released economic plans they say would jump-start an economy crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Paul Tasker
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The long-term care crisis: How B.C. controlled COVID-19 while Ontario, Quebec face disaster
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Kathleen Harris
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Liberal MPs call for national standards for long-term care homes
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Joan Bryden
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Canada's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier marks its 20th anniversary
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Murray Brewster
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More firearms being banned without public notice following May 1 order from Ottawa
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Rafferty Baker
Canada -British Columbia ||
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Trudeau, allies call for global unity at UN summit on pandemic recovery
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Mike Blanchfield
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Conservative Senate leader wants the Red Chamber back in business
John Paul Tasker
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Opposition parties call on Liberals to restore human-trafficking victims fund
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Teresa Wright
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Canada, allies condemn China on Hong Kong law after contentious Meng ruling
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Mike Blanchfield
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Video
As B.C. stays firm, Alberta offers 'cohort quarantine,' seeks essential worker status for NHL players
Canada -Edmonton ||
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Nurse left homeless by COVID-19 anxiety now working the front lines of the pandemic
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Catherine Cullen
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Federal government reaches out to private sector for 'big ideas' to restart the economy
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Louis Blouin
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Analysis
Our dismal relationship with China just got a whole lot worse
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Chris Hall
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Analysis
Leaving out long-term care was medicare's original sin — and we're paying for it now
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Aaron Wherry
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Analysis
Why it took an outside-the-box use of the military to rip the lid off Canada's long-term care crisis
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Murray Brewster
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Canada, Australia have to stand up to 'bullies' like China, says former Australian PM
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Peter Zimonjic
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PODCAST
Party Lines May 28: The crisis in our care homes
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Champagne says Meng ruling demonstrates judicial independence — as China warns of 'grave political incident'
John Paul Tasker
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as B.C. judge rules extradition bid should proceed
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Jason Proctor
Canada -British Columbia ||
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Staffing, protective equipment still a challenge in Quebec long-term care homes, military report says
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Benjamin Shingler
Canada -Montreal ||
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Searchers find wreckage, human remains at scene of Canadian Forces chopper crash
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Murray Brewster
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'OK, let's make history': Hybrid House of Commons convenes to debate COVID-19
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