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WASHINGTON 鈥?The White House on Friday defended chief of staff Reince Priebus against accusations he breached a government firewall when he asked FBI Director James Comey to publicly dispute media reports that Trump campaign advisers had been frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents.President Donald Trump spokesman, Sean Spicer, argued Priebus had little choice but to seek Comey assistance in rebutting what Spicer said were inaccurate reports about contacts during last year presidential campaign. The FBI did not issue the statement requested by Priebus and has given no sign one is forthcoming.I don ;t know what else we were supposed to do, Spicer s stanley cup aid. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The Justice Department has policies in place to limit communications between the White House and the FBI about pending investigations. Trump officials on Friday not only confirmed contacts between Priebus and the FBI, but engaged in an extraordinary public airing of those private conversations.Spicer said it was the FBI that first approached the White House about the veracity of a New York Times story asserting that Trump advisers had contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the presidential c stanley fr ampaign. Spicer said Priebus then asked both FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCa stanley termosky be if they would condemn the story publicly, which they declined to do. ARTICLE CONTINUES Yfzk S P/TSX composite edges higher, U.S. markets mixed
OTTAWA 鈥?Assisted-dying legislation sends the wrong message to Indigenous communities, advoc stanley tumbler ates said Tuesday as voices opposed to the bill continued to ring out on Parliament Hill.Indigenous elders work hard to tell young people tha stanley cups t suicide should not be an option, and the medical assistance in dying MAID bill says the opposite, said Tyler White, chief executive officer of Siksika Health Services, which provides health services to Indigenous communities in Alberta.Extraordinary efforts have been made in suicide prevention in our communities, he said. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The expansion of MAID sends a contradictory message to our peoples that some individuals should receive suicide prevention, while others suicide assistance.The new bill follows a Quebec court ruling striking down the existing legislation on medically assisted death on the grounds that it was too restrictive. The court gave the government until Dec. 18 to implement a new regime. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The Liberals ; offer stanley botella ing, Bill C-7, expands the categories of those eligible for the procedure, opening it up to people whose deaths aren ;t reasonably foreseeable.The new bill imposes strict guidelines for people seeking assisted death as part of that category, including a 90-day waiting period. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Dr. Th