
Verity Stevenson
Verity is a reporter for CBC in Montreal. She previously worked for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.
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Ford praises Carney after late-night fireside chat at Muskoka cottage
It may not be the sunny ways government, but some premiers certainly seem to be feeling sunny about the future after a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday.
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B.C. premier slams U.S. ambassador for saying Trump thinks Canadian boycotts are 'nasty'
B.C. Premier David Eby says U.S. leadership has "very little awareness" of how offensive their remarks are, like the U.S. ambassador to Canada saying President Donald Trump thinks Canadians are "nasty" to deal with because of U.S. travel boycotts and booze bans.
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Montreal woman who joined ISIS as a teen convicted of aiding a terrorist group
Oumaima Chouay, who fled her home in Montreal nearly a decade ago to join ISIS in Syria, is the first person in Canada convicted for providing family support to a terrorist entity as a spouse.
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Girls' softball was an inclusive sport in Alberta. For this teen, a new law could end that
A 15-year-old Alberta athlete says they just played what they believe to be their last competitive softball game, as the province's law bans players assigned male at birth from playing in women's teams.
Two people behind bogus temp agencies that exploited asylum seekers sentenced to house arrest
Two people accused of running fraudulent temp agencies that exploited asylum seekers in Montreal have been sentenced to house arrest for 10 and 18 months.

Poilievre says he lost Ottawa riding for being 'honest' about plan to cut public sector jobs
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says he lost his riding of Carleton in the federal election due to an "aggressive" campaign by public sector unions after he was honest about wanting to cut federal worker jobs.
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What a Yukon hockey star's choice of a U.S. college means for Canadian hockey
Canada is losing one of its best young players — a year from his likely pick as No.1 in the 2026 NHL draft — to the U.S. And the teenager's choice has sent hockey watchers, fans, analysts and officials reeling.
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Here's what happened the last time the U.S. forced regime change on Iran
The U.S. overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953. Historians say the coup led to the very regime U.S. President Donald Trump has touted overthrowing. A ceasefire deal he announced Monday between Iran and Israel could put the idea of regime change to rest.
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'No Kings' protests against Trump's policies expected to sweep U.S. on Saturday
A United-States-wide demonstration against President Donald Trump, planned for months and to be held Saturday, has ballooned in scope since protests against the administration's immigration raids broke out last week.
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Trump thanked California National Guard before it arrived in L.A.
At 2 a.m. Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump posted to social media congratulating the work of California's National Guard in response to immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. In fact, the guards only arrived in the city later that morning, according to several news reports.
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