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Complainant tells MPs harrowing account of sexual assault in the military

News/Politics: A House of Commons committee heard startling testimony of rape and retribution from different witnesses on Tuesday as it continued its examination of sexual misconduct in the military.

Trudeau says he wants an AstraZeneca shot, but a supply crunch could be coming

News/Politics: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today his office was busy working the phones to secure him an appointment for the AstraZeneca shot at an Ottawa pharmacy now that the age restrictions have been adjusted in Ontario. But Trudeau will have to act quickly — the country's limited AstraZeneca stockpile is quickly running low.

Jim Steinman, hitmaker for Meat Loaf and Céline Dion, dead at 73

News/Entertainment: Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf's best-selling Bat Out Of Hell debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, has died, his brother said. He was 73.

Budget puts abortion access on the table in future health funding talks with provinces

News/Politics: The federal government says any future negotiations about boosting health funding to provinces will be tied to talks on sexual and reproductive health services — including abortion.

Jury reaches verdict in Derek Chauvin's murder trial

What happened at Rogers? Day-long outage is over, but questions remain

News/Business: A day after a software error wiped out wireless services for thousands of Rogers customers across Canada for most of the day, consumers, telecom executives and critical public services still have questions about what exactly happened and how it can be avoided in the future.

Some provinces not ready to embrace Liberal pledge to build a national child care system

News/Politics: Provincial governments have reacted with a mixture of skepticism and openness to the Liberal government's pledge to build a universal and affordable child-care system.

Canada-U.S. border restrictions extended as U.S. congressman pushes for reopening plan

News/Politics: The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed to non-essential travel until at least May 21. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair tweeted the extension this morning.

Quebec court upholds most of religious symbols ban, but English schools exempt

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Biden says he's praying for 'right verdict' in Chauvin trial

News/World: U.S. President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is "praying the verdict is the right verdict" in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and that he believed the case, which has gone to the jury and put the nation on edge, to be "overwhelming."

EU regulator backs use of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine despite finding possible link to blood clots

News/Health: Europe's drug regulator has found a possible link between Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clotting issues in adults who received doses in the United States, but backed its overall benefits against any risks.

Trudeau, Freeland discuss the budget

News/Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland take questions on their 2021 budget.

Chad military says Idriss Deby, nation's president for 30 years, killed in battle

News/World: Chad's President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, the army said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a presidential election.

CN steps up with $33B offer for Kansas City Southern, besting CP's $25B bid

News/Business: Canadian National Railway Co. is trying to buy U.S. railway Kansas City Southern out from under the nose of rival Canadian Pacific, which launched a takeover offer of its own for the U.S. carrier last month.

English clubs abandon breakaway Super League project amid growing backlash

Sports/Soccer: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham deserted the 12-team project amid an escalating backlash that saw the government warn of legislating to stop the breakaway competition.

Former B.C. premier says government didn't alert her to rise in money laundering until 2015

News/Canada/British Columbia: Former premier Christy Clark told a provincial inquiry on Tuesday that she wasn't alerted by her government to a massive spike in suspicious cash entering B.C.'s casinos until 2015, despite the problem having reportedly been "apparent" by then for at least four years.

Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Tuesday

News/World: Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health is urging people to follow public health rules and get their vaccine as soon as possible after health officials reported 15 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday — the highest daily case number in the province in months.

150 pounds off and counting: N.L. man uses lockdown to slim down

News/Canada/Nfld. & Labrador: In a year that has seen life turned upside down by the COVID-19 global pandemic, Kyle White made a 180-degree turn in his own life by dropping some bad habits and more than 150 pounds.

With one budget, Freeland overturned 3 decades of political orthodoxy

News/Politics: Most members of Parliament grew up in a political culture that embraced the Reagan-Thatcher school of low taxes, light regulation and small government. Thanks to the pandemic — and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's new budget — that era arguably came to an end this week.

Federal budget resurrects 'economic harm' warning as fighter jet contract nears

News/Politics: Defence contractors, perhaps one in particular, were served notice in Monday's budget that the Liberal government will penalize companies that try to do the country economic harm. The policy was a feature of a nasty trade dispute between Ottawa and U.S.-based Boeing over three years ago. Its resurrection comes as Boeing is one of the bidders for the replacement of the RCAF's fighters.