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In The News for Jan. 18: The federal New Democrats gather for day one of retreat

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 Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023 ... What we are watch...

Greg Fry Jan 18, 2023

Bail hearing for sisters who claim wrongful conviction continues in Saskatchewan

YORKTON, Sask. - Lawyers for two women who have spent nearly 30 years in prison are to argue today why they should be released on bail while they await the results of a federal conviction review. Odel...

Jan 18, 2023

Republicans, Democrats poised for battle as debt ceiling deadline looms Thursday

WASHINGTON - It's become a reliably consistent sideshow in U.S. congressional politics: Democrats and Republicans battling over a self-imposed limit on federal borrowing, a feud that often leads to st...

Jan 18, 2023

New Democrat MPs kick off caucus retreat in Ottawa, vow to hold Liberals to account

OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are kicking off a three-day caucus retreat today with a keynote speech from Leader Jagmeet Singh. NDP members of Parliament are meeting in Ottawa to discuss their pr...

Jan 18, 2023

UBC regrets handling of Turpel-Lafond, as she loses honour at different university

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia says it deeply regrets its handling of the case of retired judge and former law professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, who was the subject of a CBC investig...

Jan 17, 2023

Smith says she won't pursue COVID pardon legislation on advice from justice officials

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she won't introduce legislation to pardon those convicted of COVID-19 public health violations because she has been advised to let the courts handle it. ...

Jan 17, 2023

New York woman kidnapped and smuggled into Quebec in 2020 testifies about ordeal

MONTREAL - A woman from Upstate New York who was kidnapped, smuggled into Quebec and held at a cottage for two days told a jury Tuesday she still lives with the consequences of the September 2020 abdu...

Jan 17, 2023

Search uncovers 171 'plausible burials' near Ontario residential school

KENORA, Ont. - Searches for unmarked graves at the site of a former northern Ontario residential school have uncovered 171 "plausible burials," the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation said Tuesday, with other sit...

Jan 17, 2023

French protesters call for extradition of retired priest to Canada

LYON, FRANCE - Activists are calling on France to extradite a retired priest to Canada to face allegations that he sexually abused Inuit children in Nunavut decades ago. Nearly a dozen members of BeBr...

Jan 17, 2023

Premiers want Ottawa to fix the bail system, but are provinces doing enough?

OTTAWA - Premiers are calling on Ottawa to make it harder for some accused people to get bail, but some say that provinces could also do more to hold those who violate their bail conditions accountabl...

Jan 17, 2023