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The most dramatic decrease came in U.S. spirits exports to Canada, which fell 85% in the April-through-June quarter

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Eight weeks after adding a GM BrightDrop van to the fleet of his plumbing and heating business, Marty Salliss has no complaints, only praise.

Well, maybe only one complaint: That he may not be able to get another one.

"It's an easy vehicle to drive, and actually it's a really fun vehicle," said Salliss, whose company is about to celebrate 25 years doing business in London. "As a service truck, it's been phenomenal."

Salliss leased a BrightDrop 400 in October, the same month General Motors announced they would no longer produce the electric delivery vehicle at the CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

Every year hundreds of seniors pass through the doors of Vancouver’s Union Gospel Mission (UGM) in the Downtown Eastside.

But since the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of seniors accessing the shelter’s services has been steadily increasing.

Pre-pandemic, roughly one-quarter of people staying at the shelter were over the age of 55, according to UGM. Post-pandemic, that’s grown to one-third.

In November, for the first time in the organization's history, home-care aid workers started making weekly visits to the shelter to help seniors with basic tasks like taking a shower.

Nasr Ahmed, staff organizer at Communications Workers of America (CWA) Canada, was part of a small solidarity march outside Rockstar Toronto's offices earlier in December. He called Rockstar's claims of the fired workers leaking confidential information "patently false."

"They have not provided any proof for those claims, either for the Canadian workers or the U.K. workers," he said.

He corroborated an account from the IWGB that all 34 workers were part of an online discussion group on the app Discord, where industry workers interested in unionizing or learning about unions in the U.K. could talk about working conditions.

The fired employee told CBC News that the workers were from different departments and had different seniorities across the company, both in Canada and the U.K., and that "the only common link among us" was they were all part of the Discord group. CBC News has not viewed chat messages from the Discord group and could not verify their contents.

Tazmamart was a secret detention center in Morocco that operated for years in complete isolation. Prisoners were held in inhumane conditions—total darkness, extreme heat and cold, starvation, and absolute silence. Many did not survive.

Today, Tazmamart stands as a painful reminder of a dark chapter in Moroccan history and a symbol of the importance of accountability, truth, and human rights. Remembering such places is essential so that these abuses are never repeated

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"As Canadian as possible under the circumstances" was what Peter Gzowski's listeners decided in 1972.

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We, the undersigned, Concerned Allies of Transgender Canadians, call upon the Minister of Health to Recommend and support, within Cabinet, the exercise of the Government of Canada’s constitutional authority, including the power of disallowance under section 90 of the Constitution Act, 1867, to annul or repeal provincial legislation enacted in Alberta and Saskatchewan that restricts the rights of transgender and gender-diverse people and has been shielded from Charter scrutiny through the use of the notwithstanding clause, and to affirm the federal government’s responsibility to uphold Charter rights across Canada.

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