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B.C. government to bring in rental changes, supply laws to boost housing
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government is moving to increase housing supply with measures that will end rental restrictions and force local governments to meet housing growth targets. Housing Minister Murray Rankin introduced two pieces of legislation today, saying the province will work with local governments on the housing targets and that rental restrictions on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Ex-mayor of Surrey, B.C., Doug McCallum not guilty of mischief
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
SURREY, B.C. – Former mayor of Surrey, B.C., Doug McCallum has been found not guilty of public mischief by a provincial court judge. McCallum was charged after telling police that a woman opposed to his plans to replace the Surrey RCMP with a municipal police force used her car to run over his foot in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Coroner’s inquiry begins into death of Montreal firefighter during water rescue
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
JOLIETTE, Que. – A coroner’s inquest is underway into the drowning death of Montreal firefighter Pierre Lacroix, who perished during a rescue mission in the St. Lawrence River last year. Lacroix died after becoming trapped under a HammerHead rescue boat that capsized in the Lachine Rapids as he and three colleagues came to the rescue ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Here’s what the Emergencies Act says — and the powers Ottawa invoked last winter
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
OTTAWA – A public inquiry is underway to determine whether the federal government was justified in its invocation of the Emergencies Act last winter during the “Freedom Convoy” protests. After dozens of witnesses gave testimony and hundreds of sensitive documents were submitted into evidence, the Public Order Emergency Commission began its final week of hearings ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal committee says toppled statue of John A. Macdonald should not be put back
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
MONTREAL – A City of Montreal committee is recommending that a toppled statue of Canada’s first prime minister should not be reinstated in a downtown park. The committee made its preliminary recommendation public today, saying the city should distance itself from the policies of assimilation and genocide against Indigenous Peoples that were championed by Sir ... Read More »
1 responseCSIS director supported invoking Emergencies Act, inquiry hears
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
OTTAWA – The director of Canada’s intelligence service told the prime minister he supported the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act last winter, despite his opinion that protest blockades across the country did not meet the service’s strict definition of a threat to Canadian security. David Vigneault’s testimony today is key to the Public Order ... Read More »
2 responsesIntelligence officials testify at inquiry on threat posed by ‘Freedom Convoy’
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
OTTAWA – Intelligence officials say the “Freedom Convoy” protest last winter gave people with all kinds of grievances a chance to unite against a perceived common foe, and that most of the them likely had no connection to the trucking industry. The assessment is part of a report submitted on behalf of the Canadian Security ... Read More »
2 responses2022 tax forms in Ontario, Nunavut to offer access to organ donor information
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
OTTAWA – People who file taxes in Ontario and Nunavut for the 2022 tax year will have the option of seeking information about organ and tissue donation. The federal government has announced the two jurisdictions have agreed to participate in the service being offered by the Canada Revenue Agency. The agency says it will amend ... Read More »
3 responsesUkrainian refugees embrace peace and quiet in Canada as war rages on
By Patrice Bergeron, The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
OTTAWA – Inna Fomina is keeping a watchful eye on her one-year-old son Adrian as he plays in peaceful contentment on a carpet at an improvised space in western Ottawa. Less than two months after mother and son arrived in Canada after the war in Ukraine forced them to flee, she’s been savouring the peace ... Read More »
1 responseIntelligence officials at EA inquiry, battery supply chain : In The News for Nov. 21
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
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 Nov. 21 … What we are watching in Canada … Top intelligence officials are first on the witness list this week at the public inquiry ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. Premier David Eby to lay out plans to tackle housing affordability crisis
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2022
VICTORIA – British Columbia Premier David Eby is expected to announce his government’s plans to take on the housing affordability crisis today. It’s one of the issues Eby said he planned to tackle just moments after he was sworn in on Friday. Eby, who was housing minister before running for premier, released a housing plan ... Read More »
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