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‘The worst time to go backwards’: International aid groups fear cuts as budget looms
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on February 10th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s aid sector is nervously awaiting this spring’s federal budget amid fears of funding cuts that could require projects abroad to shut down. “This lack of predictability is creating anxiety in the sector,” said Louis Belanger, whose group Bigger Than Our Borders advocates on behalf of major Canadian charities. “The future is uncertain ... Read More »
1 responseB.C. First Nation declares emergency over drug and alcohol crisis
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – A First Nation on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island has declared a state of emergency over what its leadership describes as the “unrelating impact of drugs and alcohol” on its members, particularly children and youth. A statement from the Ehattesaht First Nation says six young people have died from drug overdoses ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Turkish consulate says deadline for Canadian rescue teams in quake zone has passed
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
VANCOUVER – Turkey’s consulate in Vancouver says a private group of volunteers from British Columbia will be the only Canadian search and rescue team in the nation’s earthquake zone, after a deadline for others to participate expired. Canadian federal authorities have not given an official go-ahead to any rescue teams since Sunday’s quake that killed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec police say six people perished in house fire north of Montreal
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
SAINTE-JULIENNE, Que. – Quebec provincial police say they have found two additional bodies inside a home that burned Thursday morning north of Montreal, bringing the death toll to six. Police say four children aged under eight years and two adults died when the house in Ste-Julienne, in Quebec’s Lanaudière region, caught fire at around 1 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Neighbours of accused say no warning signs before Quebec daycare bus crash
By Morgan Lowrie and Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
LAVAL, Que. – Neighbours of the Quebec man accused of killing two four-year-olds when the bus he was driving slammed into a daycare were shocked by the charges, describing him as a pleasant individual and doting father. Pierre Ny St-Amand, a driver with the transit corporation in Laval, Que., was arrested at the scene and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former B.C. premier John Horgan to leave early as member of legislature
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
VICTORIA – Former British Columbia premier John Horgan says he is leaving politics, and gave an emotional farewell speech in the legislature. While he didn’t give a specific time for his departure, he suggested St. Patrick’s Day on March 17 might be a good day to go. Horgan, who’s 63, has twice battled cancer, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Syrian Canadians devastated by earthquake, mourn loved ones who were killed
By Maan Alhmidi, The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
TORONTO – Aya Hammoud has been struggling to cope after seven members of her family were killed in the earthquake that has devastated parts of Syria and Turkey. The Toronto resident said her grandfather, his wife, her four cousins and their mother died when the quake destroyed their apartment building in the Syrian city of ... Read More »
1 responseCanada strikes sanguine, wait-and-see approach on Biden’s latest Buy American gambit
By James McCarten, The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
WASHINGTON – Construction industry advocates, business leaders and suppliers in Canada are taking a cautious, almost sanguine approach to U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest state-of-the-union salvo against the use of foreign building materials in federally funded infrastructure projects. Two years into Biden’s term, one of his most popular applause lines – “Buy American” – conjures ... Read More »
1 responseRescue team faces hurdles getting to Turkey quake, days after B.C. offer to Ottawa
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
VANCOUVER – A British Columbia search and rescue team is ready and willing to head to Turkey to help after a devastating earthquake, but it’s facing multiple hurdles as it awaits approval from federal authorities. Justin Mulcahy, spokesman for Vancouver’s Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Team, says “there has been no official request” from Ottawa ... Read More »
1 response‘There are kids under the bus’: Quebec parents recount moments after bus hit daycare
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
LAVAL, Que. – Parents returned Thursday to the Montreal-area daycare where two children were killed a day earlier when a bus rammed into the building, stopping to grieve and to recount the difficult moments they witnessed. André Beaudoin, a father of a two-year-old boy who attends the Laval, Que., daycare, said he had to push ... Read More »
1 responseJustice minister says federal government giving bail reform ‘serious consideration’
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
OTTAWA – Justice Minister David Lametti says he is giving “serious consideration” to reforming Canada’s bail laws in response to a request from premiers to make changes. Provincial premiers unanimously called on the Liberal government in a letter to take “immediate action” on the bail system earlier this year. The letter from premiers says there ... Read More »
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