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Politics Air force technicians are being forced to perform more frequent inspections of Canada’s trouble-prone CH-148 Cyclone helicopters after the U.S. manufacturer found a defect related to the main rotor blades, says an internal report. Report says Cyclones’ ‘unmitigated risk level’ now ‘extremely high’ Murray Brewster · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Politics The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority says it would work with a different Israeli government if it supported a two-state solution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently shot down the idea of two states Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Feb 01, 2024 5:53 PM EST |Continue Reading

Politics Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani said Thursday he has serious reservations about a suite of measures Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is about to introduce to curb access to certain transgender health services for kids and ban gender-diverse people from some sporting events. Smith is set to ban certain procedures for kids,Continue Reading

Politics The Liberal government introduced legislation Thursday that will delay the expansion of assisted dying to include those whose suffering solely from mental illness to 2027. Senators say that delaying expansion for those suffering solely from mental illness violates CharterCBC News · Posted: Feb 01, 2024 10:54 AM EST |Continue Reading

Politics Seniors aged 72 and older are eligible as of today to register for Canada’s national dental care plan, but dentists still can’t sign up for the program — even though they’re supposed to start taking patients in just a few months. Health minister says details of how dentists will register and be paidContinue Reading

Politics Months before the eruption of the Israel-Hamas war ramped up ethnic and religious tensions in many Canadian communities, a government task force rejected requests to recognize Muslim and Jewish public servants as separate groups facing systemic workplace barriers, CBC News has learned. Federal task force rejected request before Israel-Hamas war intensifiedContinue Reading

Politics·Live The head of Canada’s spy agency and other senior intelligence officials testifying today as the inquiry probing allegations of foreign election interference continues to wrestle with the question of how much sensitive information — if any — it can share with the public.  In its first phase, the inquiry is trying to defineContinue Reading

Politics The federal Liberal government is denying that it told CBC/Radio-Canada to cut its budget by 3.3 per cent, despite executives with the public broadcaster insisting that’s part of the reason they’re laying off 10 per cent of their workforce. CBC/Radio-Canada to cut 10 per cent of workforce, end someContinue Reading

Politics The mother of a missing Canadian Palestinian citizen journalist says the federal government is keeping her in the dark about what is being done to locate her son. PM Trudeau says government is ‘actively engaged’ after Mansour Shouman was reported missing Mai Hussein poses for a photo with herContinue Reading