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CP NewsAlert: Feds sign health funding deals with five provinces: Trudeau
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has signed health-care agreements in principle with all four Atlantic Provinces and Ontario. He made the announcement as he spoke with students in Halifax earlier this morning. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa announces health funding agreements with Ontario, Prince Edward Island
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal government is announcing it has reached agreements in principle for health-care funding with Ontario and Prince Edward Island. It comes a little more than two weeks after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered the premiers $46 billion in new money for health care over the next decade. As part of the deal, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal housing advocate reviewing ‘human rights crisis’ of homeless encampments
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal housing advocate is launching a review of homeless encampments in Canada, calling the situation a human rights crisis fuelled in part by the failure of all levels of government to provide adequate housing. Marie-Josée Houle says the review will collect testimony from people living in encampments along with experts in housing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec finance minister to table budget March 21, says it will include tax cuts
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
QUEBEC – The Coalition Avenir Québec government will table the first budget of the party’s second mandate on March 21. Finance Minister Eric Girard made the announcement today at the province’s legislature. He says the budget will keep all the commitments his party made during the fall election. Those promises included an income tax cut ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario, federal government reach agreement in principle on health care
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
The federal government says it has reached an agreement in principle with Ontario on health care. No further details were immediately available after the government made the announcement Thursday morning in a tweet. Canada’s premiers agreed earlier this month to accept Ottawa’s offer of more than $46 billion to augment the Canada Health Transfer. The ... Read More »
1 responseCP NewsAlert: Ontario, federal government reach health-care deal
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
The federal government says it has reached an agreement in principle with Ontario on health care. More coming... Read More »
1 responseIn The News for Feb. 23: Is Ontario ready for a nuclear-powered future?
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kick-start your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 … What we are watching in Canada … Ontario is exploring the possibility of building new, large-scale nuclear plants in order ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal minister to announce recovery funding after B.C.’s 2021 flood: government
By The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Canada’s emergency preparedness minister is returning to the epicentre of flooding that devastated British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in November 2021. Bill Blair, along with B.C. Minister of Emergency Management Bowinn Ma and Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens, is set to take part in an announcement today on federal disaster recovery funding for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s trade with Russia has plummeted since its invasion of Ukraine
By Dylan Robertson and Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s trade with Russia plummeted in the first 10 months after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago, with Ottawa’s economic measures barring the export of everything from forklifts to barbers’ chairs. Yet certain sectors have emerged largely unscathed by the restrictions, as businesses grapple with a constantly expanding list of restrictions and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian grain storage arrived just in time for Ukrainian farmer
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on February 23rd, 2023
CHERNEVE, LVIV OBLAST, UKRAINE – Oleh His marches with pride and purpose in rain-soaked mud through row upon row of large white polyethylene bags, each stamped with a Canadian logo and filled to bursting with this year’s harvest of grain. The 24-year-old grain farmer with a slight build, fair hair and braces is also a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada aims to build new Arctic surveillance systems to counter potential threats
By The Canadian Press on February 22nd, 2023
VANCOUVER – National Defence Minister Anita Anand says Canada is significantly building up its Arctic defence capabilities as increasing numbers of possible surveillance objects enter Canadian jurisdictions. Speaking after touring shipbuilder Seaspan ULC’s North Vancouver facility, Anand says the goal is to have a modernized Norad and improved continental defence “over the next number of ... Read More »
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