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Canadian artists, writers, performers call for national basic income
TORONTO — A group of Canadian artists, writers, technicians and performers is calling on Ottawa to guarantee a basic income for anyone in need. Novellist and screenwriter Emma Donoghue, poet George Elliott Clarke and opera singer Adrianne Pie...
Lithuania bans Russian television channel RT, follows Latvia
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania's media watchdog says it has banned the broadcasts of the state-controlled Russian television channel RT, effective Thursday, following a similar decision made in Baltic neighbour Latvia last week. The Radio and Televisio...
Quebec government suspends all advertising on Facebook during July
QUEBEC — The Quebec government says it is joining an international boycott of Facebook by refusing to advertise on the social network during the month of July. Premier Francois Legault's office made the announcement today in a news relea...
Trump overtakes Putin as the most talked about person in Russia’s media
By Nadezhda Vasilieva United States President Donald Trump has ousted Russian President Vladimir Putin as the person referenced most often by Russia’s news outlets in the month of January, the country’s largest private news agency Interfax reported, citing their own