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Changes to Inuit child funding program putting families at risk: health care workers
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — Health-care workers in Nunavut say changes to a federal funding program for Inuit children are forcing some pregnant to make a tough choice: have a safe birth or ensure the kids they already have are properly cared for. The Inuit Child First Initiative (ICFI) was launched in 2019 to ensure Inuit kids have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. cancels $1,000 grocery rebate and pauses hiring over Trump’s tariff threats
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s finance minister says the government is cancelling the $1,000 grocery rebate it promised during the recent election campaign and will pause government hiring over U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs. Brenda Bailey says the impacts of the “reckless” and “destabilizing” tariffs are impossible to predict. She says the province is already ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: B.C. cancels $1,000 grocery rebate, pauses hiring over tariff threats
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s finance minister says the government is cancelling the $1,000 grocery rebate it promised during the election and will pause government hiring over U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs. Brenda Bailey says the impacts of the “reckless” and “destabilizing” tariffs are impossible to predict. More coming. The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Border guards can cancel temporary visas in addition to turning people away
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — A notice published Wednesday by Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada gives border guards the “explicit” authority to revoke temporary resident visas and electronic travel documents in certain circumstances. Border guards have always been able to turn people away if they believe someone will overstay their allotted time in Canada, but now they are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau congratulates Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa despite terrorist listing
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulated Syria’s interim president today, despite him leading a group Canada still designates as a terrorist organization. Ahmed al-Sharaa leads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group Canada has listed as a terrorist organization since 2013. That group, often called HTS, toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad last December, ending a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservative strategists say Trump comparisons no reason for Poilievre to change gear
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s pledge to boost Arctic security through a “massive” cut to Canada’s foreign aid budget has led to renewed attacks from his political opponents, who are accusing him of borrowing policy from U.S. President Donald Trump. But some Conservative strategists are brushing off those comparisons, saying now is not the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!White House singles out Canada’s digital tax as Trump announces new tariff plan
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — President Donald Trump signed another executive order on Thursday authorizing reciprocal tariffs and his White House singled out Canada’s digital services tax as one such trade irritant. The White House sent out a document calling Canada and France’s digital taxes as “unfair” for taxing American companies. The Trudeau government’s three per cent tax ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec EV company Lion Electric made big promises, but struggled to deliver
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
MONTREAL — A Quebec company once hailed as a success story in the electric-vehicle transition has struggled to deliver on many of its most ambitious plans. Lion Electric Co. made a name for itself selling electric school buses in Canada and the United States. It later targeted the commercial truck market, advertising agreements with Amazon, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Territorial premiers send message in Washington that the Arctic is not for sale
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
WASHINGTON — Territorial premiers said it is a critical time for the Arctic amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasing rhetoric of American expansion and actions to disrupt global trade. But they are very clear: the Arctic is not for sale. “The people of the north are the ones asserting Canada’s sovereignty,” said Northwest Territories Premier ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney touts modular homes while Freeland promises to repatriate doctors from U.S.
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — Rival Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland issued duelling policy pledges on Thursday, with one candidate vowing to speeding up home building and the other promising to bring doctors back to Canada. Carney said he plans to incentivize prefabricated and modular homes to help tackle the housing affordability crisis, since they ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Inquest scheduled for April into overdose death in Victoria university dorm room
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2025
VICTORIA — A coroner’s inquest has been scheduled for April 28 into the overdose death of a University of Victoria student last year after her family says there were delays in administering naloxone and starting CPR. Eighteen-year-old Sidney McIntyre-Starko died in January 2024 of cardiac arrest due to fentanyl poisoning in a dorm room at ... Read More »
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