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With the new free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia, the flower markets in Ontario and British Columbia are being threatened by imports of Colombian flowers. Capital News talks to professionals in both countries to find out more about the challenges they are facing with Valentine's Day on the horizon.
By Laura Gamez
Producer Komal Minhas
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The good news for Aboriginal Peoples is that their income — personal and community — is on the rise. The bad news, say aboriginal money managers, is that without a basic knowledge of how to handle newfound wealth it may slip through their fingers.
By Stephanie Brooks
Producer Ora Morison
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Canada's history stretches back for more than 15,000 years, full of countless objects, vast landscapes and captivating characters. Capital News Online, with the help of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, looks at nine significant objects from our nation's history and investigates the time, place and people that make the items so integral to understanding our past.
By Jenny Ford, Victoria Abraham
Producer Michelle Blanchard
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The Government of Canada wants you to eat kosher, and just gave $700,000 to the Montreal Jewish Community Council to develop kosher standards for non-Jewish foods. L'chaim!
By Kristy Wright
Producer Loren Romei
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The Macdonald-Laurier Insitute hosted academics Michael Byers and Jack Granatstein in a debate over the role and direction of the Canadian Forces post-Afghanistan. Byers argued that peacekeeping should be the paramount priority of the Canadian military; Granatstein held that protection of national interests through combat readiness should be the military's purpose. You be the judge.
By Marika Washchyshyn
Producer Jared Fisk
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Since 2001, the Canadian government has been sending painters, sculptors, poets and authors to Canadian military bases around the world. These artists use their experiences as inspiration for work that adds a new perspective to war. Capital News attended the unveiling of some of their works in Ottawa.
By Capital News Online
Producer Melissa Schilz
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An athlete. A family man. A survivor. An inspiration. Capital News Online takes you behind the scenes of Canadian icon Rick Hansen's 25 year legacy.
By Carolyn Thompson and Marc Ellison
Producer Jeff Hamilton
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Five players in one court case are fighting over rewriting the rules for gay blood donors in Canada.
By Radka Zitkova
Producer Emma Renda
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The debate over decriminalizing prostitution is back on the front burner with a recent court challenge to Canada's sex-for-sale laws by three women in the trade.
By Tereza Verenca
Producer Ariane Melaven
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With the new free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia, the flower markets in Ontario and British Columbia are being threatened by imports of Colombian flowers. Capital News talks to professionals in both countries to find out more about the challenges they are facing with Valentine's Day on the horizon.
By Laura Gamez
Producer Komal Minhas
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An editorial published earlier this month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal brought the issue of sex-selective abortion in Canada into the limelight. Now, some are calling for legislative restrictions on aboriton to combat the issue. Others say education is the best way to solve the problem.
By Michael Monette
Producer Amanda Connolly
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A new international children’s rights treaty will give kids the option to “tattle” on their governments to the UN, but only if their government allows them to do so.
By Averie MacDonald
Producer Lana Cuthbertson
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Temporary foreign workers make up an important part of Canada's economy, but long wait times means putting their lives on hold while they wait for permanent residency. Recently, Jason Kenney, minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced how the federal government plans to change this.
By Yamina Tsalamlal
Producer Robin Grant
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Six years ago, Zahra Kazemi was beaten to death in an Iranian prison. Today, her son Stephan is fighting both the Iranian government and a Canadian law to get his mother the justice she deserves.
By Ellen Mauro
Producer Jennie Campbell
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The Department of Justice has proposed changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act that critics say place punishment for someahead of the potential for rehabilitation.
By Catherine Kitts
Producer Scott Croteau
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A new program hopes to eliminate the tangled web of tests that foreign-trained doctors have to go through before they can work in Canada. But critics say the real bottleneck is a lack of residency spaces.
By Anna Konewka
Producer Laura Wright
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Canadian winter athletes are heading to Vancouver with better prospects of reaching the podium. Researchers from universities and institutions across the country are hoping the contributions from the Top Secret program will make a difference.
By Kian Khoshnevis
Producer Claire Brownell
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The debate over decriminalizing prostitution is back on the front burner with a recent court challenge to Canada's sex-for-sale laws by three women in the trade.
By Tereza Verenca
Producer Ariane Melaven
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In recent years the Chalk River Laboratories' reliability has taken a hit. Now current and former employees are proposing the federal government make the lab more accessible to all scientists.
By Kara Carnduff
Producer Toni Petter
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By Elizabeth McSheffrey Producer Ari Altstedter For many, Winterlude means three things: snow slides, ice sculptures and skating. But Ottawa's long-term forecasts predict warmer winters might be the new norm. This has some festival enthusiasts worried that future Winterludes will have a lot less 'winter' in them.
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