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Officials investigating the collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck on a New York airport runway this week revealed on Tuesday what was captured by the cockpit voice recorder in the final three minutes before the crash, shedding more light on the last moments of two deceased pilots. In a National Transportation Safety Board press conference at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York City, where the fatal collision occurred at 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, investigator in chief Doug Brazy read aloud a summary of the final transmissions between the tower, the aircraft and the...

OTTAWA — There should be no new limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause even if a “tyrant” could one day take power and use it to run roughshod on fundamental rights, the Quebec government told Canada’s top court amid a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law. “It is not the role of the court to decide a political question that is not justiciable,” lawyer Isabelle Brunet, who represents Quebec’s attorney general, told the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in French on Tuesday. On the second of four days of hearings, proponents of Quebec’s controversial secularism law — colloquially...