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Delegates at COP15 warned to dress warmly and bring extra socks as snowstorm looms

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

OTTAWA – If the weather outside is frightful, bring some extra socks and build a snowman. For most Canadians such advice ahead of a major winter storm is unnecessary. But for thousands of delegates at the COP15 nature talks in Montreal right now, a Canadian winter is a little less routine. Organizers are clearly worried ... Read More »

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Alberta says it will take control of prosecutions for banned firearms from Ottawa

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

EDMONTON – Alberta’s justice minister says provincial prosecutors are to take over the handling of charges under the federal Firearms Act starting in the new year. Tyler Shandro says he is also advising Alberta’s prosecutors that the province does not consider it to be in the public interest to go after law-abiding owners of banned ... Read More »

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Canada is losing ground and falling behind U.S. on trade with Africa, senators say

By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

OTTAWA – Senators are warning Trade Minister Mary Ng that Ottawa may be falling behind its peers in establishing deeper trade ties with Africa. The Senate foreign-affairs committee has been studying for months whether Global Affairs Canada is responding to the country’s diplomatic needs. Ng took senators’ questions, which ranged from how Canada will form ... Read More »

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Federal public servants to start returning to office next month with hybrid system

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

OTTAWA – The Treasury Board is expected to announce today that federal public servants will have to begin returning to the office a few days per week next month, with a phased-in hybrid model. Employees in the core public service across all departments will be told to begin phasing in a return-to-office plan in mid-January, ... Read More »

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Environment ministers try to get Montreal biodiversity talks on track in final days

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

MONTREAL – Delegates returned to the negotiating table at the COP15 nature talks in Montreal on Wednesday night and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said he’s confident things are on track to get an ambitious, properly funded agreement to protect and restore nature around the world. The talks for a global biodiversity framework hit a speed ... Read More »

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Facebook intimidating Canadians with threats to pull news from platform: Ottawa

By Michel Saba, The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

OTTAWA – Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez accused Meta on Thursday of trying to intimidate Canadians with threats of pulling news content from its Facebook platform, following the adoption of Bill C-18 in the House of Commons. “Canadians don’t like being intimidated,” Rodriguez told reporters in Ottawa. “Me, if I were Facebook, I would change ... Read More »

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Woman and adult granddaughter fatally shot inside Montreal apartment

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

Montreal police say a woman and her adult granddaughter were victims of a double homicide early this morning. A call to 911 reporting gunshots was made at about 2:40 a.m., and officers found the two women seriously injured inside an apartment in the city’s Pointe-St-Charles neighbourhood. A 73-year-old woman died on the scene while her ... Read More »

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Canada’s climate action plan underfunded, unclear regarding top risks: report

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

OTTAWA – A report says Canada’s climate adaptation strategy is underfunded and does not clearly align its goals with the country’s top climate change risks. The Canadian Climate Institute put out the report that makes 11 recommendations for improvements to the federal government’s draft $1.6-billion strategy that was released in November. It says that while ... Read More »

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Quebec court says Canadian Pacific Railway not liable in Lac-Mégantic train crash

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

MONTREAL – A Quebec Superior Court judge says Canadian Pacific Railway is not liable in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic, Que., railway disaster that killed 47 people. Justice Martin Bureau ruled Wednesday that the actions the railway company was accused of are not the direct, immediate and logical cause of the damages suffered by the victims of ... Read More »

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Canada-made radar satellite component to be used in global surface water survey

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 2022

LONGUEUIL, Que. – A piece of Canadian radar technology will play a key role in a satellite mission scheduled to launch Friday that aims to study almost all of the Earth’s water surfaces. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is led by NASA and France’s space agency, CNES, with contributions from Canada and ... Read More »

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In The News for Dec. 15 : Canada’s banking regulator to set mortgage stress test

By The Canadian Press on December 15th, 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. 15 … What we are watching in Canada … Canada’s banking regulator is expected to make an announcement regarding the interest rate used in ... Read More »

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