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RCMP make two arrests, seize firearms, right-wing political material west of Montreal
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
MONTREAL – RCMP say two men face charges in connection with a large firearms seizure last year just west of Montreal. Authorities say Jordan Madden, 29, and Joshua Madden, 31, of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., are facing seven charges related to the trafficking, transfer, possession and storage of firearms. Police say the force’s integrated national security team ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. firm gets approval from Health Canada to make and sell cocaine
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
LANGLEY, B.C. – Health Canada has granted a British Columbia cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine. Adastra Labs says in a news release that Health Canada gave it approval on Feb. 17 for an amendment under its controlled substance dealer’s licence. It says the amended licence allows the company to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. to ask Ottawa for money laundering law changes after case fails to yield charges
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s attorney general says she will lobby the federal government to amend Canada’s financial crime law after a multi-year money laundering investigation by police failed to produce any charges. Niki Sharma says B.C. will ask for changes to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act to bring Canadian law ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Manitoba RCMP say 2 teenage girls died after being found in the cold on First Nation
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
ST. THERESA POINT, Man. – RCMP say two teenage girls died in the cold outside a home on a remote First Nation in Manitoba. Mounties were called after the 14-year-old girls were found Wednesday in St. Theresa Point First Nation, a fly-in community about 610 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. The girls were brought to the ... Read More »
1 responseQuebec health minister says emergency room death of 86-year-old woman ‘disturbing’
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé says details surrounding the death of an 86-year-old woman in an emergency room last week are “disturbing” and “unacceptable.” First reported by TVA Nouvelles, the family of Gilberte Gosselin says she was left to die in a hallway of the emergency room at Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Lévis, Que., ... Read More »
1 responseAlberta band chief angry over silence from Imperial Oil after oilsands tailings spill
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
A northern Alberta band chief says he’s angry over not being notified for nine months after two separate releases from an oilsands tailings pond. Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says a pond on Imperial Oil Ltd.’s Kearl mine was seeping into groundwater and onto the surface for nine months before his community ... Read More »
1 responseSupreme Court to look at issue of Crown liability when a law is struck down
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will examine whether the Crown enjoys absolute immunity from a civil suit seeking damages over passage of a law that is found to be unconstitutional. The top court has agreed to hear the federal attorney general’s appeal in the case of a New Brunswick man who filed an ... Read More »
1 responseCanada, China had better relationship at time of Trudeau Foundation pledge: Rosenberg
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The former head of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says the level of caution Canadian institutions must now take when dealing with China was not top of mind when the charitable organization accepted a pledge from a Chinese billionaire. Morris Rosenberg was president of the Trudeau Foundation from 2014 to 2018, which is ... Read More »
1 responseMontreal university says no indication donation by Chinese billionaire was suspect
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
MONTREAL – The Montreal university that was promised an $800,000 donation as part of an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Justin Trudeau says the pledge came at a different time in Canada-China relations. Université de Montréal spokesman Jeff Heinrich says that when the donation was announced in 2016, scientific and economic relations ... Read More »
1 responseDirector of Canada’s spy agency agrees integrity of federal elections not compromised
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The director of Canada’s spy agency says foreign actors did not compromise the past two federal elections. David Vigneault says he agrees with an independent panel tasked with overseeing the elections that determined foreign interference did not affect their outcome. Under a federal protocol, there would be a public announcement if the panel ... Read More »
1 responseCanada Elections commissioner reviewing complaints related to foreign interference
By The Canadian Press on March 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The commissioner of Canada Elections says her office is reviewing past complaints related to foreign interference following recent media reports that allege China tried to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. Caroline Simard says her office received 158 complaints related to foreign interference in the 2019 election, and 16 complaints during ... Read More »
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