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Foreign interference inquiry slated to hear from chief electoral officer
By The Canadian Press on March 28th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada’s chief electoral officer, Stéphane Perrault, is slated to testify this morning at a commission of inquiry into foreign meddling allegations and how the government responded to them. The hearings are delving into possible foreign interference by China, India, Russia and others in the last two general elections. As head of Elections Canada, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. orca calf rescue team considers changing tactics to save stranded whale: DFO
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – A Fisheries Department official says a rescue team working to coax a stranded killer whale calf from a lagoon off northern Vancouver Island is prepared to change tactics to save its life, including lifting the orca out to the open ocean. Paul Cottrell, the department’s marine mammal co-ordinator, says they will consider ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Things are going to change.’ RCMP report on response to mass shooting inquiry
By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
MILLBROOK, NOVA SCOTIA – RCMP commissioner Mike Duheme released a strategy Wednesday outlining how the national police force will respond to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives. Almost a year after the public inquiry released a final report that offered a blistering critique of the Mounties’ response ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Diaspora community members tell of toll foreign meddling takes on families
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
OTTAWA – Members of diaspora communities told a federal inquiry Wednesday of the ways that authoritarian governments make life extremely difficult for families when members dare question the regimes. The federal commission of inquiry into foreign interference heard from a panel of representatives of various communities about the human toll meddling can take. Many Russians ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa signs $3.7B health deal with Quebec, final province to sign onto health accord
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
OTTAWA – Health Minister Mark Holland signed a $3.7-billion health pact with Quebec today, which means all 13 provinces and territories have now signed on to Ottawa’s new health accord. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first pitched a new health-funding deal to provinces more than a year ago to increase federal health transfers and provide targeted ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Suspects plead not guilty in human smuggling case involving family’s death at border
By Steve Karnowski, The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
ST. PAUL, MINN. – A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, who prosecutors say went by the alias “Dirty Harry,” entered his ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservative premiers are lying about carbon pricing: Trudeau
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says conservative politicians across Canada, including premiers, are lying to Canadians about the carbon price. Trudeau’s government is buckling as attacks mount against carbon pricing and voters increasingly side with politicians who say the policy is making their lives less affordable. Most premiers and the federal Conservatives are pushing ... Read More »
1 responseMeasles cases in Canada are increasing, Canada’s chief public health officer warns
By Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
Canada’s chief public health officer says the number of measles cases in the country continues to rise. Dr. Theresa Tam says in a statement the Public Health Agency of Canada is aware of 40 measles cases in Canada so far this year. That’s more than three times the number of cases reported in all of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police investigating after two bodies found in home northwest of Montreal
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
LAC-SUPÉRIEUR, Que. – Quebec provincial police are investigating after two bodies were found in a home in the Laurentians region. The bodies were found about 9:15 a.m. inside a residence in Lac-Supérieur, Que., about 105 kilometres northwest of Montreal. Provincial police spokesperson Camille Savoie says the two people were transported to hospital where they were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Protection fund, bill of rights for renters coming; ‘renters matter,’ Trudeau says
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
VANCOUVER – The federal government wants to support those who rent their homes with a protection fund, a bill of rights and a plan to give reliable renters credit when they step up to by a home. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there’s something fundamentally unfair about paying $2,000 a month for rent, while those ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Climate change expected to drive shifts in urban birds, animals, bugs
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2024
A study suggests climate change will drive a massive shift in the birds, bugs and other critters that live alongside humans in 60 cities across North America. The good news in the newly published paper is that under warming temperatures, cities with temperate climates like those in Canada could welcome new animals. By the end ... Read More »
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