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Canada commits $800 million to support Indigenous-led conservation projects
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2022
MONTREAL – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will spend up to $800 million to support four major Indigenous-led conservation projects across the country covering nearly one million square kilometres. Trudeau made the announcement today at the Biosphere environment museum in Montreal accompanied by Indigenous leaders and federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Visa issues exclude Indigenous voices from COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2022
OTTAWA – The COP15 conference on biodiversity loss is underway in Montreal, but hundreds of delegates from developing countries are missing out due to visa issues. This past summer, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada caused an uproar when it denied visas for multiple African delegates for the International AIDS Conference, also held in Montreal. The ... Read More »
1 responseBob Rae heads to Haiti in attempt at political consensus, amid possible intervention
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2022
OTTAWA – Canada is trying to dislodge a political impasse in Haiti by sending one of its top diplomats to that country. Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, starts an in-person push for negotiations today in Port-au-Prince. Haiti is facing a series of crises, as armed gangs block access to fuel and essentials, ... Read More »
1 responseIn The News for Dec. 7 : Will the Bank of Canada raise its key interest rate again?
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 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 Dec. 7 … What we are watching in Canada … The Bank of Canada is expected to raise its key interest rate today, making it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As Georgia runoff wraps, Supreme Court considers who wields America’s election power
By James McCarten, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2022
WASHINGTON – Another day, another interesting intersection for modern American democracy – this one between the 2022 campaign trail, the perennial search for election integrity, and the road to the highest court in the United States. Protesters plan to gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court today as North Carolina Republicans seek to persuade the high ... Read More »
1 responseB.C. Premier David Eby to reveal new cabinet with health, safety, housing priorities
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2022
VICTORIA – British Columbia Premier David Eby will appoint a new cabinet today in a move pundits are saying will be a blend of old and new faces, and could also start the countdown towards an early election. Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin is scheduled to swear in Eby’s cabinet during a ceremony at Government House in ... Read More »
1 responseBilled as remedy for doctor shortage, virtual medicine in N.S. hits bottleneck
By Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2022
HALIFAX – Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual medicine offered a novel way for patients to see doctors during a lockdown and hope that technology could alleviate chronic pressure on a strained health system. For many in Nova Scotia, though, the early promise has proven illusory. Tim Neufeld, 28, from Dartmouth, N.S., has been on ... Read More »
1 responseHard talks on hard targets: real work begins at Montreal biodiversity conference
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2022
MONTREAL – Representatives from nearly 200 countries are to begin the real work Wednesday at a crucial meeting on global biodiversity – hard talks on hard targets for saving enough of the world’s ecosystems to keep the planet functioning. Observers say they’re optimistic the 196 countries at the COP15 meeting in Montreal can agree that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nature ‘under attack’ says Trudeau as UN biodiversity conference opens in Montreal
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2022
MONTREAL – In the 73 minutes on Tuesday afternoon that it took for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and five other dignitaries to officially open the 15th global talks to save nature from human destruction, statistics suggest another 4,000 hectares of forest around the world was lost to that same force. It is the kind of ... Read More »
1 responseIndigenous women call on federal government to act in light of Winnipeg killings
By David Fraser, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2022
OTTAWA – The daughters of an Indigenous woman police believe to have been the victim of a serial killer urged the federal government on Tuesday to act on what they call an ongoing genocide. Police believe Morgan Harris was one of four victims of an alleged serial killer in Winnipeg, but her body has not ... Read More »
1 responseQuebec Press Council upholds complaint over question to Blanchet at leaders debate
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2022
MONTREAL – The Quebec Press Council has upheld a complaint regarding a question the moderator asked Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet during the English-language federal leaders debate last year. The complaint was lodged against moderator Shachi Kurl and the CBC, one of the networks that broadcast the debate, by Julie Lapierre the day after the ... Read More »
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