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How Truth and Reconciliation Day is marked across Canada
By The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia has introduced legislation to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday. If the legislation passes, B.C. would become the sixth province or territory to designate Sept. 30 as a holiday. Here is a list of how provinces, territories and Canada mark the day. Canada: The federal government ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What Trudeau has offered to the premiers to fund health care
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
OTTAWA – Premiers got their fist look at Ottawa’s offer to increase long-term health funding Tuesday at a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but the federal proposal falls short of what they were seeking. The provinces budgeted about $204 billion for health care in this fiscal year and the Canada Health Transfer was set ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian military plane heads home after two surveillance flights over Haiti
By The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
OTTAWA – A Canadian Armed Forces surveillance plane is returning home after two intelligence-collecting flights over Haiti. The federal Liberal government announced on Saturday that the CP-140 Aurora was being deployed to collect intelligence on gang activity in Haiti. Defence Minister Anita Anand and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said it also demonstrated Canada’s commitment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C’s pink sea urchins are on the move to shallower waters thanks to climate change
By The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
VANCOUVER – Pink sea urchins off the coast of Vancouver Island are expanding into shallower waters, in what researchers say is an indication of how rapidly climate change is affecting ocean life. Researchers at Memorial University, Ocean Networks Canada and the University of Victoria found the urchins were moving into shallower water at an average ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Coalition calls on Ottawa to invest $6B in Indigenous housing
By Emily Blake, The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
A new coalition is calling on the federal government to invest $6 billion in its upcoming budget to develop an urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategy. The National Urban Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Coalition, which represents Indigenous housing providers across Canada, said there’s a need to increase the housing supply by 73,000 units. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau lays out $196-billion, 10-year health-care deal to premiers
By Laura Osman, Mia Rabson, Stephanie Taylor and Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will increase federal health-care transfers to the provinces by $196 billion over the next 10 years, though only about one-quarter of that is new, previously unexpected money. Trudeau is making the offer to the premiers today at a meeting in Ottawa. He says it will include ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!COVID critic had illness but died of drug overdose, B.C. coroner says
By The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
VICTORIA – A report from British Columbia’s coroner says a prominent anti-vaccine and COVID critic died in 2021 of a drug overdose, although he also tested positive for the illness post-mortem. The report says Mak Parhar was found by a family member unresponsive in the bathroom of his New Westminster home on Nov. 4, 2021. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Canadian envoys to China urge Ottawa to launch foreign agent registry
By The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
OTTAWA – Two of Canada’s former envoys to China say Ottawa is enabling foreign interference on Canadian soil by not launching a registry to track those acting on behalf of other countries. The Liberals have promised to eventually launch consultations on a foreign agent registry, which would require people to publicly report when they are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two Montreal police officers lied about 2017 death of detainee: ethics board
By The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec’s police ethics board says two Montreal officers lied to investigators about the 2017 death of a 23-year-old man in custody. Administrative judge Benoit Mc Mahon says Const. Mathieu Paré and Dominic Gagné – since promoted to detective-sergeant – were negligent or showed a lack of concern for the man’s well-being when they ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Premiers say they are ‘open minded’ about Trudeau’s long-awaited health-care offer
By Laura Osman, Mia Rabson, Stephanie Taylor and Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
OTTAWA – Provincial and territorial premiers say they’re open to what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau puts on the table as they prepare to sit down to work on a new health funding deal, despite their long-standing and very specific requests for a substantial increase to the Canada Health Transfer. The provinces budgeted about $204 billion ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National reconciliation day to become September statutory holiday in B.C.
By The Canadian Press on February 7th, 2023
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government has introduced legislation to make Sept. 30 a paid statutory holiday marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Labour Minister Harry Bains introduced a bill in the legislature today, saying the holiday will be observed this September and every Sept. 30 afterwards. He says the B.C. holiday follows ... Read More »
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