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Senators ponder loosening French requirements for diplomats as Canada pivots to Asia
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
OTTAWA – A Senate committee studying the future of Canada’s foreign service is pondering whether French needs to be a lower priority for recruiting diplomats. The foreign-affairs committee is looking at whether Global Affairs Canada is successfully meeting the country’s foreign policy goals. Staff recruitment and the role language plays in the process are among ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minister links chronic pain with toxic drug overdoses, commits $5M to pain network
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
VANCOUVER – The federal government is putting $5 million toward chronic pain resources in what Carolyn Bennett, minister of mental health and addictions, says is part of an effort to help stop people with untreated pain from seeking relief through toxic street drugs. She says up to $4.5 million over five years will go toward ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PM free to reopen Constitution if he has problem with notwithstanding clause: Ford
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
OTTAWA – Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is free to reopen talks with the provinces about the notwithstanding clause and the Constitution, though he’d recommend against it. Ford made the comments today after being criticized for pre-emptively invoking the notwithstanding clause in legislation that imposed a new contract for 55,000 Ontario ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau tells health ministers money is there, but he wants to see results
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
VANCOUVER – The federal government will invest more in health care, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it also needs to ensure that Canadians see the results of an improved system. Trudeau made his comments in Montreal today ahead of two days of meetings in Vancouver by Canada’s federal, territorial and provincial health ministers. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Windsor mayor supported Emergencies Act, worried blockades would return
By Laura Osman, David Fraser and Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
OTTAWA – The mayor of Windsor, Ont. supported the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, even though police had already cleared out the serious blockade at a local border crossing, he told a federal inquiry Monday. Mayor Drew Dilkens feared protesters would return to the Ambassador Bridge border crossing, he said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Many Ontario schools set to reopen Tuesday as CUPE workers return
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
TORONTO – Several Ontario school boards, including the Toronto District School Board, are planning to reopen for in-person learning Tuesday, as education workers announced an end to a walkout that began Friday. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job, says they will end their job ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Feds hold groundbreaking ceremony for Moderna’s mRNA vaccine factory in Montreal area
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
LAVAL, Que. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today took part today in a groundbreaking ceremony for biotechnology company Moderna’s new mRNA vaccine factory in Laval, Que., a suburb of Montreal. The factory is expected to be completed in 2024 at the earliest and produce 100 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year. It will manufacture ... Read More »
1 responseCUPE to end Ontario education worker protests after Ford promises legislation repeal
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
TORONTO – A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job says protest sites “will be collapsed” starting Tuesday in response to Premier Doug Ford saying he will repeal legislation that imposed a contract on them. Ford announced earlier in the day that he was willing to repeal the law that also ... Read More »
1 responseCanadian Press NewsAlert: CUPE to end education worker protests in Ontario
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
TORONTO – A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job Friday says protest sites “will be collapsed starting” Tuesday in response to Premier Doug Ford saying he will repeal legislation that imposed a contract on them. More coming... Read More »
1 responseQuebec’s highest court begins hearing appeals on provincial secularism law
By Marisela Amador, The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
MONTREAL – Quebec’s highest court on Monday began hearing appeals on the constitutionality of the province’s secularism law, which forbids certain public sector workers – including teachers and police officers – from wearing religious symbols on the job. Both the Quebec government and groups opposing the law are challenging an April 2021 court decision that ... Read More »
1 responseClimate conference hears loss of Arctic summer sea ice now inevitable by 2050
By The Canadian Press on November 7th, 2022
Scientists are telling the global climate conference in Egypt that the loss of summer Arctic sea ice is now inevitable. The report, delivered today at the COP 27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, says there’s no way that the complete disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic can be avoided. The State of the Cryosphere ... Read More »
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