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Deadline for federal workers to go back to the office is here, as union holds rally
By The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal government’s return-to-office deadline has arrived – and on cue, a major public-sector union is holding a rally in Ottawa to call attention to workers’ concerns. The Public Service Alliance of Canada, which is hosting the demonstration and represents 165,000 federal workers, says women are disproportionately affected by the government’s mandate. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Child missing after six migrants found dead in river in Akwesasne, near U.S. border
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
QUEBEC – Authorities in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne say an infant is missing after the bodies of six migrants of Indian and Romanian descent were pulled from the river Thursday. The bodies, including that of a child under three, were found in the St. Lawrence River in the part of Akwesasne located in Quebec, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More people with greater needs driving $7B increase to dental-care cost
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal government now expects far more Canadians with long-overdue dental needs to sign up for its insurance plan, and the health minister says that’s why the estimated cost has risen by $7 billion. In its 2023 budget Tuesday, the government revealed the federally administered insurance program will be far more expensive over ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Child missing after bodies of six migrants found in river in Akwesasne
By The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
QUEBEC – Authorities in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne say an infant is missing after the bodies of six migrants of Indian and Romanian descent were pulled from the river Thursday. The bodies, including that of a second child under three, were found in the St. Lawrence River in the community that straddles the Canada-U.S. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole not seeking re-election, leaving this spring
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
OTTAWA – Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says that after more than a decade in politics, he will not seek re-election and plans to resign his seat this spring. The Ontario MP led the Conservatives and served as official Opposition leader from August 2020 until February 2022, when a majority of his caucus voted to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In The News for March 31: Drilling down on cost of federal dental care
By The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 31… What we are watching in Canada … The search is expected to continue today after six bodies were discovered Thursday in the St. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Relatives of those killed in N.S. mass shooting say their work has only just begun
By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
HALIFAX – The brother of a man killed during a mass shooting in Nova Scotia almost three years ago says he’s keen to make sure recommendations from a public inquiry released Thursday are implemented. “It’s great to have things move forward,” Scott McLeod told a news conference in Truro, N.S., a community about a 30-minute ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump denounces ‘unthinkable’ indictment as evidence of ‘political persecution’
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump has become the first former U.S. president to face a criminal indictment – and he’s wasting no time trying to turn it to his advantage. Multiple media reports, citing anonymous sources, say the grand jury in New York voted late Thursday to indict Trump in the Stormy Daniels case. The indictment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Freeland says budget lacked housing measures because 2022 funds still being spent
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
SURREY, B.C. – Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says this week’s federal budget lacked new measures to address Canada’s housing crisis because last year’s budget already included a $10-billion plan that’s still being spent. Freeland says on a visit to British Columbia that last year’s budget allocated funds for the $4-billion housing accelerator program launched earlier ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Non-profit organizations call on government to protect Muslim charities
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
OTTAWA – Several members of the non-profit sector, including the United Way and Imagine Canada, are calling on the federal government to take immediate steps to shield Muslim-led charities from potentially discriminatory federal audits. More than a dozen organizations issued a statement urging Ottawa to act following the release this week of the taxpayers’ ombudsperson’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Turpel-Lafond returns honorary degree granted by Simon Fraser University in B.C.
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
Officials at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., have accepted the return of an honorary degree awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the former judge and law professor whose claims of Indigenous ancestryhave been discredited. A statement from SFU president Joy Johnson says Turpel-Lafond opted to return the 2016 award after the university told her it ... Read More »
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