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Olivia Chow returning to federal politics with the NDP
Olivia Chow is making a bid to return to the House of Commons, Gloria Galloway reports.
Ms. Chow will run as an NDP candidate in the new riding of Spadina-Fort York in the upcoming federal election.
“Canadians are ready for change because, after 10 long years of Stephen Harper, his plan just isn’t working,” Ms. Chow told the crowd. “It’s time for a national high-quality child care program, it’s time for stable public-transit finding and it is time for a $15 minimum wage so that people can get ahead.”
Ms. Chow resigned after nine years of serving as an MP in that area to run for mayor of Toronto, but finished third after John Tory and Doug Ford.
Donald Sutherland: ‘I’m Canadian – and I have a right to vote’
Canadian expats should retain the right to vote, Donald Sutherland wrote in a Globe and Mail column.
“They ask me at the border why I don’t take American citizenship,” he writes. “I could still be Canadian, they say. You could have dual citizenship. But I say no, I’m not dual anything. I’m Canadian.”
Mr. Sutherland’s article is in response to a recent court ruling that denies expats living outside Canada for longer than five years the right to vote. As Mr. Sutherland writes, even expats can feel Canadian.
“Ask any journalist that’s ever interviewed me what nationality I proudly proclaim to have. Ask them. They’ll tell you. I am a Canadian.”
Appointment of Russ Brown extends Harper's influence on Supreme Court
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has named Russ Brown, a conservative judge from Alberta, to the Supreme Court of Canada.
As Sean Fine reports, this is Harper’s third appointment in 15 months to the country’s most powerful court without parliamentary involvement.
Some predict Justice Brown, in his early 50s, will be future chief justice after Alberta-born Beverley McLachlin reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75 in four years.
Justice Brown replaces another conservative judge, and so will not alter the balance between left- and right-leaning members of the court.
Mr. Harper has appointed all but two members of the nine-person court.
Blue Jays confirm Colorado trade: Goodbye Jose Reyes, hello Troy Tulowitzki
The Blue Jays are bringing star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki to Toronto.
The Jays are sending shortstop Jose Reyes to the Colorado Rockies for Tulowitzki and 42-year-old reliever LaTroy Hawkins.
In addition to Reyes, the Jays also give up reliever Miguel Castro and minor-league pitchers Jeff Hoffman and Jesus Tinoco.
Tulowitzki is a talented five-time all-star who is hitting .300 with 12 homers and 53 RBIs in 87 games this season. He gives Toronto another powerful, right-handed bat in a dangerous lineup that already includes Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion and Russell Martin.
Baby to inherit millions if proven progeny of murdered West Vancouver man
A Chinese woman trying to prove her baby daughter has sole claim to the fortune of a murdered West Vancouver millionaire has won her bid for a paternity test.
A new British Columbia law says the child stands to inherit everything if the results match.
The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered DNA testing on the remains of Gang Yuan, whose body was found chopped into more than 100 pieces. A man has been charged with second-degree murder.
Contending she is Gang’s former lover and the mother of his child, Xuan Yang argues her child is legally entitled to inherit the man’s estimated $50-million estate.