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Alberta appoints oilpatch veterans to advise government on province’s energy future
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
EDMONTON – Premier Danielle Smith will turn to a panel of five oilpatch veterans to advise her government on the future of Alberta’s energy industry. The panel will be chaired by David Yager, a longtime writer on the oilpatch. Yager was also a former political candidate for the Wildrose Party, one of the groups that ... Read More »
1 responseVictoria officer’s lost notebook obtained by criminals, used in alleged offence: cops
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
Victoria Police are warning dozens of people that their names and other personal information contained in an officer’s lost notebook are now being “circulated among the criminal element.” A statement from the department says the officer’s notebook was lost for five days in December, but it only learned of the loss this month. While the ... Read More »
1 responseFederal government willing to consider tougher bail rules pushed by provinces
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
WINNIPEG – Plans are in the works for a meeting of Canada’s justice ministers on March 10 in Ottawa to discuss tougher rules for people seeking bail. Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen says the date was contained in an email today from the office of federal Justice Minister David Lametti. The premiers have called on ... Read More »
1 responseSenator says more awareness needed of ‘invisible crime’ of Indigenous identity theft
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
OTTAWA – A Manitoba senator says Indigenous identity fraud is a damaging but often “invisible crime” that inflicting serious harm on Indigenous women. Mary Jane McCallum, who is Cree, wants the Senate to study the issue and raise more awareness about why it is so damaging. There have been a series of high-profile cases in ... Read More »
1 responseB.C.’s auditor general says data gaps during COVID-19 vaccine rollout posed risks
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s auditor general says the Ministry of Health should have access to a registry of residents and staff in long-term care facilities as well as heath-care workers after concluding it sometimes “struggled” to collect reliable COVID-19 vaccination information for high-risk groups. In his latest report on the province’s COVID-19 vaccine coverage, auditor ... Read More »
1 responseOttawa supports premiers’ call for health-care deal reviews: Duclos
By Allison Jones, The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
The federal government supports calls from the premiers to establish a five-year review of health-care funding, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a letter to his Ontario counterpart. Canada’s premiers have been urging regular reviews to be established as part of the talks, saying the system needs predictability. Duclos’ letter to Ontario Health Minister Sylvia ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta health minister promises $158M in budget to recruit front-line health staff
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
EDMONTON – Alberta’s health minister says there will be $158 million in the upcoming budget to attract more physicians and other health-care professionals to fill gaps in care. Jason Copping says the workforce is stretched and that demands will only increase as the population ages. The budget is to be delivered Feb. 28, and Copping ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Funeral held for four-year-old boy killed in Quebec bus crash last week
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
MONTREAL – The sound of church bells rang out in Laval, Que., on Thursday as family and friends bade an emotional farewell to one of the two young children killed when a bus crashed into a daycare last week. The bells of the Ste-Rose-de-Lima church tolled at 11 a.m. as five men carried the small ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec tables legislation to allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
QUEBEC – The Quebec government has tabled legislation to allow people with incurable diseases to make advanced requests for medical assistance in dying before they become incapacitated. The primary change in the bill tabled today by the junior health minister for health and seniors, Sonia Bélanger, applies to people suffering from a “serious and incurable” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Downed objects most likely benign, Biden says, vowing new rules for U.S. skies
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden says the three unknown flying objects he ordered shot down over the U.S. and Canada earlier this month were likely no danger to national security. Biden says the objects were downed expressly because they did pose a potential risk to commercial air traffic. Biden, who spoke out after members of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. high court orders three Hells Angels clubhouses forfeited to the province
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s Appeal Court has overturned a lower-court ruling and ordered the Hells Angels motorcycle club to surrender three properties under the province’s Civil Forfeiture Act. The unanimous decision by a three-member panel issued Wednesday, says a B.C. Supreme Court justice was wrong to find “no evidence” that the Hells Angels’ clubhouses in ... Read More »
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