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Deputy ministers and crown corporation heads get 2.5% and 3% respectively in top existing pay rates of $288,400 and $445,600 respectively

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40% decrease in enforcement targets for illegal hunters, anglers and netters

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The best way to prevent child labour is to pay coffee pickers a fair living wage

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Situation will worsen in many areas if Conservatives kill $5 billion Liberal program

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Oil sands worker fired unfairly over positive test resulting from social marijuana use five days before he was hired.

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Independent task force will assess workload issues raised by instructors at 24 community colleges

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Workers at Browning Harvey trying to fight off company plan to cut jobs

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Canada's privacy commissioner calls on Canadian government to pass a new Privacy Act to protect citizens against foreign intrusion

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'A spirit of oneness and solidarity with all Aboriginal peoples on this national day.'
- James Clancy

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Private operation of West Coast ferry fleet was a controversial move made by Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell

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'We are hoping to have things up and running by late September.'

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OPSEU demands moratorium and accuses Premier Dalton McGuinty of breaking another election promise

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The Toronto City Summit Alliance calls for national reconstruction of Canada's frayed income security net

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Federal government has moved beyond the NATO mission of humanitarian relief and peacekeeping to an active combat role in support of the US military mission in Afghanistan.

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Conservative government expanding network of 'agency stores' in smaller communities

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