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OTTAWA — Members of Parliament have unanimously called on Ottawa to start a refugee program to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs fleeing persecution in China.

An Airdrie man is facing charges of sexual assault, child pornography, sexual exploitation, and other offences after a lengthy investigation by provincial police. 

Shepherd said the NDP is also in favour of establishing more day surgeries in Alberta to help alleviate some of that surgical backlog, but sees no reason why the UCP should be giving public dollars to subsidize private corporations to do those surgeries.

OTTAWA — Governments must go beyond new national standards to make working in long-term care a profession of choice if they hope to address serious staffing issues that led to deadly conditions for seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic, representatives of the workers said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Despite their misgivings about the Liberals' national child-care plan, the Conservatives voted in favour of the bill Wednesday, approving it for further study.

Former Paul Kane High School teacher Bryce Hughes plead guilty to two sexual offence charges in St. Albert Provincial Court on Jan. 30, and received a 5-year prison sentence.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A court has seen video of a Calgary pastor encouraging truckers to keep blocking the Canada-U.S. border to protest COVID-19 restrictions because the world was watching.

OTTAWA — Canada's new special representative on combating Islamophobia said Wednesday that she is sorry that her words have hurt Quebecers.

Sahaya Sanjai Gomez, 36, will serve 12 months of probation.

OTTAWA — The NDP is calling on a House of Commons committee to expand its study of federal contracts awarded to McKinsey & Company and include other consulting firms that have received large contracts.