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Ex-Reform leader Preston Manning picked to chair review of Alberta’s COVID response
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
EDMONTON – Premier Danielle Smith has struck a committee to investigate how the Alberta government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and has appointed former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to chair it. Smith, in a statement, says Manning and the panel will take feedback virtually from experts and the public, then issue a final report ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa spends additional $80M on Inuvik airport upgrades
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
INUVIK, N.W.T. – The federal government is increasing its funding contribution for upgrades to an airport in the Northwest Territories by $80 million. It has now spent $230 million to extend and modernize the runway at Inuvik’s airport. Ottawa says this will make the airport more suitable for larger and heavier aircraft, and enhance the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Retired Cree senator stunned by ‘facade’ of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s heritage
By Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
Retired senator Lillian Dyck says she was “stunned” to see reports last fall questioning the Indigenous heritage of former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose story she had related to, and whose career she had celebrated. Dyck, who is Cree and Chinese Canadian, says she thought “hallelujah” as Turpel-Lafond became Saskatchewan’s first Indigenous female judge in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal government should direct RCMP to end use controversial neck hold: NDP leader
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should push back against the RCMP continuing to use a controversial neck hold. Mendicino directed the RCMP to stop using the “carotid control” technique in a mandate letter given to Commissioner Brenda Lucki last year, but the national police force told CBC News ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How ground-penetrating radar is used to find unmarked graves at residential schools
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – Ground-penetrating radar is the technology behind the discoveries of what are believed to be unmarked burial sites on the grounds of former residential schools, by providing communities with the first glimpses of physical evidence of possible graves. But it is not well understood, and is being used to fuel misinformation about the findings. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Identification of Quebec propane blast victims means mourning can begin: mayor
By Jacob Serebrin, The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
MONTREAL – The mayor of a Quebec town where a propane explosion left three people dead last week says the identification of the victims Thursday will allow people to begin mourning. Provincial police identified the dead as Céline Pilon, 65, of St-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Que.; France Desrosiers, 65, of nearby l’Épiphanie; and Christophe Paradis, 26, of nearby ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada to repatriate six women, 13 children from Syrian detention, lawyer says
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – The lawyer for six Canadian women and 13 children being held in Syrian camps says the federal government has agreed to help bring them home. Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon says a “mutually acceptable” agreement was reached today with Ottawa to repatriate the 19 Canadians. The Canadians are among the many foreign nationals in Syrian ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No pharmacare bill this year would be a deal-breaker, says NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the Liberal government does not introduce a pharmacare bill in the House of Commons this year, he will consider it a deal-breaker. Both parties signed a confidence-and-supply agreement last March, in which the NDP agreed to support the minority Liberal government in key votes until 2025. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Retired senator ‘stunned’ by reports about Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s heritage
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
Retired senator Lillian Dyck says she was “stunned” to hear questions about the Indigenous heritage of former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose career she had recognized as barrier-breaking. Dyck, who is Cree and Chinese Canadian, says she celebrated as Turpel-Lafond became Saskatchewan’s first Indigenous female judge in 1998. The professor emeritus in psychiatry at the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec man charged with kidnapping U.S. couple in 2020 to testify at his own trial
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
MONTREAL – A Quebec man charged in the case of a couple from Upstate New York who were kidnapped and smuggled into Quebec in September 2020 will testify in his own defence. Defence lawyer John T. Pepper Jr. told the jury in an opening statement that Gary Arnold is expected to take the stand today. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Military shrinking footprint in Middle East to free up troops for other missions
By The Canadian Press on January 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Canadian Armed Forces is shrinking its footprint in the Middle East to free up troops for missions in Europe and elsewhere. Vice-Admiral Bob Auchterlonie revealed the plan in an interview with The Canadian Press as the military struggles with both a personnel shortage and growing demands in other parts of the world. ... Read More »
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