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Technical difficulties delay committee meeting that Google exec was set to attend
By The Canadian Press on March 6th, 2023
OTTAWA – A parliamentary committee that was set to hear from the head of Google Canada is hoping to reschedule her appearance for later this week. The heritage committee was set to hear from Sabrina Geremia after MPs summoned her and three other Google executives to appear today. While Geremia technically fulfilled the summons by ... Read More »
1 responseThree Conservative MPs who met with far-right German politician will stay in caucus
By The Canadian Press on March 6th, 2023
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says three members of his party who met with a German politician from a far-right party will stay in caucus. Speaking to reporters today in Ottawa, Poilievre otherwise ducked questions about the recent meeting between Ontario MPs Leslyn Lewis, Dean Allison and Colin Carrie and Christine Anderson. Anderson visited ... Read More »
1 responseCN workers back union strike mandate as contract talks for 3,000 employees continue
By The Canadian Press on March 6th, 2023
MONTREAL – CN workers backed a strike vote with negotiations set to resume on a contract for around 3,000 Canadian employees. Unifor announced Sunday that workers with Local 100 are 98 per cent in favour of a strike while those with Council 4000 voted 97 per cent to back job action. The union says the ... Read More »
1 responseIn The News for March 6 : Worker shortages plague vital airlines in the North
By The Canadian Press on March 6th, 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 6 … What we are watching in Canada … Airlines that operate in the North – where many residents rely on flights for transportation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. woman killed in Mexico, man detained in suspected homicide
By The Canadian Press on March 5th, 2023
VANCOUVER – A Canadian man is being detained in Mexico for the suspected homicide of a 23-year-old woman at a resort south of Cancun. The woman has been identified by family members as Kiara Agnew from Dawson Creek, B.C. Her family says on a GoFundMe page that Agnew went on what was supposed to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. woman killed in Mexico, boyfriend detained in suspected homicide
By The Canadian Press on March 5th, 2023
VANCOUVER – A Canadian man is being detained in Mexico for the suspected homicide of his 23-year-old girlfriend at a resort south of Cancun. The woman has been identified by family members as Kiara Agnew from Dawson Creek, B.C. Her family says on a GoFundMe page that Agnew went on what was supposed to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian environmental groups praise UN accord to protect marine life on high seas
By The Canadian Press on March 5th, 2023
OTTAWA – Environmental groups are praising a newly signed treaty that will help protect biodiversity in the high seas, where conservation across vast stretches of the planet have been hampered by a confusing patchwork of laws. The unified agreement treaty, which applies to nearly half the planet’s surface, was reached late Saturday after it was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!TikTok to remain sponsor at Broadbent Institute conference despite security concerns
By The Canadian Press on March 5th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Broadbent Institute is keeping TikTok as a sponsor during their upcoming conference, despite rising national security concerns from the government of Canada regarding the popular app. Jen Hassum, executive director of the policy thinktank, says sponsors do not direct the institute. She says the institute will continue to follow the news surrounding ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Climate change threatens Canadian security, prosperity, warns stark spy agency brief
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on March 5th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels. A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service also foresees an increase in ideologically motivated violent extremism ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. logging firm wants to avoid cutting old growth, but province said it must pay
By Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press on March 5th, 2023
A British Columbia company that wants to avoid logging sections of at-risk old growth was told by the Crown corporation that manages B.C.’s public forests to cut the trees down or pay to leave them standing, its chief forester said. Logging began in the two cut blocks north of Revelstoke in spring 2021, but Downie ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s chief of the defence staff makes trip to Ukrainian capital
By The Canadian Press on March 4th, 2023
WARSAW, Poland – The Department of National Defence says Canada’s top soldier has just wrapped up a visit to Ukraine’s capital. A readout released by the department on Saturday says Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre received detailed briefings while he was in Kyiv from Ukrainian officials, including from his counterpart, commander-in-chief of ... Read More »
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