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The Canadian government has a duty to ensure First Nations behind a class-action lawsuit have access to clean drinking water, a federal judge has ruled.The case, the third major class-action lawsuit brought forward in recent years over unsafe water in First Nations communities, was filed by Shamattawa First Nation and its Chief, Jordna Hill, and was certified in 2023. Shamattawa, a Treaty 5 First Nation in northern Manitoba, is a fly-in community that has faced “a near constant” drinking-water advisory since December of 2018, according to the decision filed on Friday by Federal Court...
December 8, 2025 - 05:30 | Susan Krashinsky Robertson, Willow Fiddler | The Globe and Mail
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick says it thoroughly reviewed a 2022 Quebec regulator’s decision to revoke the privileges of a family doctor who was found to have fraudulently obtained his medical license in Quebec.But the New Brunswick college says it found no reason to take similar measures and allowed Sanjeev Sirpal to continue practising and subsequently work in Nova Scotia through the Atlantic Registry, an interprovincial licensing program. Dr. Sirpal is now alleged to have sexually assaulted patients in both provinces.As Canada considers introducing greater...
December 8, 2025 - 05:00 | Lindsay Jones, Ha Tu Thanh | The Globe and Mail
For decades, mobilization — the process by which a nation readies itself for war — has been almost entirely absent from public debate in Canada. The eight core missions of the Canadian Armed Forces make no mention of it, and the word itself appears nowhere in current defence policy. Read More
December 8, 2025 - 04:00 | Alex Robinson | Ottawa Citizen
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December 8, 2025 - 04:00 | Alex Robinson | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — A potential pipeline to the West Coast has created strange political bedfellows.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet held a meeting with British Columbia Premier David Eby on Dec. 2, only days after
the federal government signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Alberta...
December 8, 2025 - 04:00 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
Government officials are refusing to meet with Ontario farmers about a controversial missile defence radar after one of their group wrote to Defence Minister David McGuinty to complain about his department’s lack of transparency on the project. Read More
December 8, 2025 - 04:00 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
