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Climate Changed: Adaptation strategy commits funds to fight heat, floods, fires
By The Canadian Press on November 24th, 2022
ST. PETER’S BAY, P.E.I. – The federal government has released a climate adaptation strategy that includes $1.6 billion in new spending to help communities faced with risks that range from extreme heat and wildfires to floods and storms. Bill Blair, the minister of emergency preparedness, made the announcement in Prince Edward Island, where hurricane Fiona ... Read More »
1 responseIn The News for Nov. 24: What will Freeland have to say at Emergencies Act Inquiry?
By The Canadian Press on November 24th, 2022
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 24 … What we are watching in Canada … Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is next on the witness list at the public inquiry ... Read More »
1 responseDeputy PM Chrystia Freeland to testify on ‘Freedom Convoy’ at Emergencies Act inquiry
By The Canadian Press on November 24th, 2022
OTTAWA – Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is next on the witness list at the public inquiry probing the federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to weeks-long protests last winter. Freeland, who is also the federal finance minister, was the lead on emergency economic powers given to banks and other financial ... Read More »
1 responseClimate Changed: Adaptation strategy to set targets to fight heat, floods, fires
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on November 24th, 2022
OTTAWA – Canada is set to have a new national climate adaptation strategy, outlining the government’s intention to eliminate deaths from heat and forest fires, protect homes and businesses at the highest risk of flooding and help get people forced to flee extreme weather back home faster. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair is scheduled to ... Read More »
1 responseB.C. RCMP charge suspect accused of hitting residential school marchers with pickup
By The Canadian Press on November 23rd, 2022
MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA – RCMP in British Columbia say a suspect has been charged after several people taking part in a residential school march were struck last spring by a pickup truck. Police say on June 4 a large group of people was walking along Lougheed Highway just east of downtown Mission in the March ... Read More »
1 responseB.C. man convicted of killing his four- and six-year-old daughters denied appeal
By The Canadian Press on November 23rd, 2022
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia man who killed his two young daughters on Christmas Day in 2017 has been denied an appeal by the province’s highest court. Andrew Berry claimed the lower court made numerous errors, including that the judge allowed the jury to hear evidence of incriminating statements he made to first responders, hospital ... Read More »
1 responseRejecting unproven claims prevents ‘mob’ takeover of convoy inquiry: Murray Sinclair
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on November 23rd, 2022
OTTAWA – The commissioner presiding over the public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act will not allow a lawyer for “Freedom Convoy” organizers to explore an unsubstantiated claim that hateful imagery spotted at the Ottawa protests last winter was staged. Justice Paul Rouleau released a written response to a request by Freedom Corp. ... Read More »
1 responseFeds file judicial review of $40B Indigenous child-welfare settlement
By The Canadian Press on November 23rd, 2022
OTTAWA – The federal government is asking a judge to review some aspects of the $40-billion settlement agreement over discrimination in the Indigenous child-welfare system, after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal rejected the deal in late October. The tribunal’s finding threw the landmark settlement – the largest in Canadian history – into question. In 2019, ... Read More »
1 responseSolicitor-client privilege on Emergencies Act creates ‘black box,’ inquiry hears
By Stephanie Taylor, Lee Berthiaume and Marie-Danielle Smith, The Canadian Press on November 23rd, 2022
OTTAWA – Justice Minister David Lametti repeatedly invoked solicitor-client privilege in his testimony at a public inquiry on Wednesday as he refused to reveal the legal basis for the Liberal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act earlier this year. That leaves a critical question so far unanswered: What legal advice did the federal government ... Read More »
1 responseCP NewsAlert: Feds file judicial review of $40B Indigenous child-welfare settlement
By The Canadian Press on November 23rd, 2022
OTTAWA – The federal government has filed a judicial review of some aspects of the $40-billion settlement agreement over discrimination in the Indigenous child-welfare system, after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal rejected the deal in late October. More coming... Read More »
1 responseB.C. human rights tribunal awards $150,000 in child welfare discrimination case
By The Canadian Press on November 23rd, 2022
VANCOUVER – An Afro-Indigenous woman has been awarded $150,000 in compensation by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after her children were wrongfully seized by a child welfare agency. The tribunal found the Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society’s decision to take custody of the woman’s four children for nearly three years was based ... Read More »
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