Top Stories 2020
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Story 4 – Federal Assault Weapons Ban
While COVID-19 cost thousands of Canadians their lives this year, another tragedy befell Nova Scotia in April, shaking the country from coast to coast. The nation’s worst mass shooting in history unfolded over the course of two days on April
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Story 3 – The Wet’suwet’en Protests
The beginning of 2020 was a time of political turmoil and tension across the country as disruptions, railway blockades and protests in cities across the country amplified the message of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who opposed a $6.6 billion natural gas pipeline
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Story 2 – WE Charity Scandal
For the second year in a row, a political scandal involving the Liberal Party makes our top 10 stories of the year. Last year it was the SNC-Lavalin ordeal, this year, WE Charity. WE was awarded a later-cancelled $19.5 million no-bid
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Story 1 – COVID-19
When historians write about 2020 there will be a mention of COVID-19 in the first paragraph. The pandemic crept into the lives of nearly every person in the world in some way, month by month, with sickness, death, and economic
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