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Twitter requires Maxime Bernier to delete tweet sharing reporters' emails

Twitter requires Maxime Bernier to delete tweet sharing reporters' emails

OTTAWA — Twitter has required People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier to remove a tweet that insulted individual reporters and shared their contact information.
Feds need to put more cash into long-term care to legislate safety: experts

Feds need to put more cash into long-term care to legislate safety: experts

OTTAWA — Experts warn the Liberals’ promise to legislate safety in long-term care will have to come with more money if new national care standards are going to fix what’s broken in the system.
Canada needs to share more COVID-19 surpluses with world, says UN envoy Bob Rae

Canada needs to share more COVID-19 surpluses with world, says UN envoy Bob Rae

OTTAWA — Canada's envoy to the United Nations says Canada needs to share more of its COVID-19 vaccine surpluses with less fortunate countries.
Families sharply rebuke private Montreal care home where 47 died in COVID-19 1st wave

Families sharply rebuke private Montreal care home where 47 died in COVID-19 1st wave

MONTREAL — Family members who lost loved ones at a Montreal long-term care home where 47 people died during the pandemic's first wave told a coroner's inquest Thursday that caring for society's most vulnerable should not be a for-profit exercise.
Counting mail ballots, office vacancy in a post-COVID world: In The News for Sept. 23

Counting mail ballots, office vacancy in a post-COVID world: In The News for Sept. 23

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 23 ... What we are watching in Canada ...
Prince George bylaw targeting homeless people 'scapegoats' the poor, says expert

Prince George bylaw targeting homeless people 'scapegoats' the poor, says expert

PRINCE GEORGE — A northern British Columbia city is enacting new restrictions meant to erase the homeless from its core, intensifying the grief that COVID-19 and the overdose crisis have already inflicted on those with nowhere to live, an expert says
Most postal votes should be counted by Wednesday: Elections Canada

Most postal votes should be counted by Wednesday: Elections Canada

OTTAWA — A clutch of close-run ridings are still waiting for mail ballots to be counted to determine the final result.
Quick List: Close races where mail-in ballots are deciding election results

Quick List: Close races where mail-in ballots are deciding election results

OTTAWA — Several federal ridings may not have an elected member of Parliament until Thursday or even Friday, as Elections Canada continues the arduous task of verifying and counting more than 850,000 mail-in ballots.
Canada paused COVID-19 vaccine deliveries as supply far exceeds demand

Canada paused COVID-19 vaccine deliveries as supply far exceeds demand

OTTAWA — Further deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to Canada are on pause because provinces already have more doses than they can currently use.
B.C. must shore up risk-crisis communications before, during, after wildfires: report

B.C. must shore up risk-crisis communications before, during, after wildfires: report

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Upgrades to communications systems in British Columbia's wildfire zones are needed to save lives and properties, says a report released Wednesday. The Thompson Rivers University report, which examined B.C.