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B.C. condo owners’ group ordered to repay owner for cockroach control bill
By The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
VANCOUVER – The Civil Resolution Tribunal has ruled that a British Columbia condominium owner should be repaid thousands of dollars she was charged to eradicate a cockroach infestation in her building. It says the homeowners’ group is obligated to address the problem under its duty to repair and maintain common property, and Alanna Hurran should ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Big NDP names exit before B.C. election. What does that mean for the party?
By Ashley Joannou, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
VANCOUVER – The New Democrats are campaigning for another term in British Columbia’s provincial election but without many of the familiar faces that have graced lawn signs of elections past. About a quarter of the NDP cabinet ministers who held a portfolio when the election campaign kicked off in September won’t have their names on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National ceremony in Ottawa marks Truth and Reconciliation Day
By Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
OTTAWA – The smell of sage and sweetgrass floated in the air Monday over a mostly sombre ceremony to reflect on the legacy of residential schools and remember those who survived – and the thousands who didn’t. But amid the more difficult moments at the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremony on Parliament Hill ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘I don’t want to bury more people’: Son of Canadians slain in Lebanon implores Ottawa
By Rianna Lim, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
Ottawa must do more to help Canadian citizens leave Lebanon, says the son of a Canadian couple killed last week when an Israeli bomb hit their car in the country’s south. Speaking from Bahrain in a phone interview, Kamal Tabaja said he’s having trouble sleeping knowing that more family members, including his Canadian brother, are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Survivors call for reversal of Canada’s ‘cut’ to residential school search spending
By Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
OTTAWA – Residential school survivors say the federal government is keeping the truth about those institutions in the dark by cutting back on funding for records and ground searches looking for unmarked graves of children who died at the schools. More than 150,000 children were forced to attend residential schools, and many survivors detailed the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A ‘weird’ debate: vice-presidential hopefuls to face off ahead of razor-thin election
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
WASHINGTON – Tim Walz and JD Vance are set to face off Tuesday in the only debate for the vice-presidential hopefuls during the razor-thin race to November’s election. Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, and Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio, are expected to play the political attack dog. Todd Graham, a professor of debate ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. Conservative Leader Rustad vows to ‘unleash potential’ for Indigenous prosperity
By Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad says the federal government has been “absent” and failing to live up to commitments to First Nations on housing and clean water issues, and his government would step in and then send Ottawa the bill. Rustad says if his party wins the Oct. 19 provincial election, B.C. would partner with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Son of Canadian parents killed in Lebanon urges Ottawa to ramp up evacuation efforts
By Rianna Lim, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
The son of a Canadian couple killed during Israeli strikes on Lebanon last week says Ottawa must do more to help citizens leave the country as fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group intensifies. Kamal Tabaja says his 75-year-old father Hussein Tabaja and 70-year-old mother Daad Tabaja were trying to flee their southern Lebanon ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Faculty strike: McGill University threatens to cancel semester for law students
By The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
MONTREAL – McGill University is threatening to cancel law school classes for the rest of the semester if it can’t reach an agreement today with a faculty union that has been on strike since August. The university says it will drop its legal challenge of the faculty’s right to unionize – a key demand of ... Read More »
1 responseJoly targets polarization in UN speech, urges liberals to reclaim the word ‘freedom’
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is asking members of the United Nations to counter growing political polarization. Joly is addressing the UN General Assembly on behalf of Canada after the annual gathering of leaders and ministers in New York. Joly says countries need to work together to uphold rules on sovereignty and human ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Ontario MPP wants paid holiday for TRC day
By The Canadian Press on September 30th, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Ontario MPP wants paid holiday for TRC day Ontario’s only First Nation representative at Queen’s Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a ... Read More »
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