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Nova Scotia

N.S. rent cap extension useless due to fixed-term lease loophole, housing advocates say

A loophole in Nova Scotia’s rental housing rules is making the provincial government’s proposed rent cap extension essentially useless, housing…

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Politics

Advocates for migrants, employers unimpressed with temporary foreign worker changes

Advocates for both workers and employers are unimpressed with the Liberal government’s changes to Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. The…

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Nova Scotia

Organization advocates for more palliative care beds in N.S.

When Andrea Weagle and her family sat down to discuss her father’s deteriorating health in March, they decided end-of-life care would…

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Politics

Most disabled Canadians won’t qualify for national dental care plan, advocates say

Kevin Konnyu spent a decade navigating the health-care system before he was approved recently for financial assistance through Ontario’s disability support program.…

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Politics

Liberals making changes to capital gains rules, but business advocates still concerned

The Liberal government is making some changes to a capital gains tax exemption applied when a business owner sells their…

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Entertainment

Jon Stewart advocates for troops sickened by uranium

Comedian Jon Stewart and troops sickened by uranium ended a meeting Friday at the Department of Veterans Affairs angry that…

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Health

Disability advocates to rally for boosted federal benefit

Disability advocates are set to gather in downtown Toronto Thursday morning to not only mark the historic win of the Canada…

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Tech

Animal advocates ask CFIA to immediately ban flights of live horse shipments to Japan

Animal rights advocates who followed four recent shipments of live horses for slaughter from Canada to Japan are calling on…

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Health

More support for pregnancy, infant loss needed, advocates say

Warning: This story contains distressing details about pregnancy and infant loss.  Just days after Nicole Shannon told her family that…

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Politics

Canada ‘sleepwalking’ into cashless society, consumer advocates warn

A consumer group is urgently calling on the federal government to follow other jurisdictions in the U.S and Europe and…

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