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Trudeau to chair Canada-U.S. relations cabinet committee amid calls to resign
By David Baxter, The Canadian Press on December 23rd, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will chair a meeting of the cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations today, amid increasing calls for his resignation. A mid-day adjustment to Trudeau’s itinerary was issued by the Prime Minister’s Office and notes he will take part in the meeting virtually, though a specific time wasn’t listed. It’s been ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario asks Canada’s highest court to hear youth-led climate case
By Jordan Omstead, The Canadian Press on December 23rd, 2024
TORONTO – Ontario is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to urgently decide whether it will hear a historic youth-led challenge of the province’s climate plan. It’s the first case to be tried in Canada that considers whether a government’s climate plan can violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In their application to the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Green Party leader reflects on chaotic week
By The Canadian Press on December 23rd, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Green Party leader reflects on chaotic week Elizabeth May says in all her years on Parliament Hill she has never seen anything like the last week in Canadian politics. In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, May ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Green Party’s Elizabeth May reflects on unprecedented week in Canadian politics
By Nick Murray, The Canadian Press on December 23rd, 2024
OTTAWA – Elizabeth May says in all her years on Parliament Hill she has never seen anything like the last week in Canadian politics. In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, May – now in her 13th year as the B.C. MP for Saanich – Gulf Islands – spoke about the bombshell events on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning in Ottawa leaves 10 people hospitalized
By The Canadian Press on December 22nd, 2024
Ottawa police say 10 people are in hospital and one of them is suffering from life-threatening injuries after a suspected carbon monoxide poisoning case. Police say the fire department and paramedics responded to a call at about 9:15 a.m. at a home on Granville Street in the city’s Vanier district. The local paramedic service says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Drug superlabs leave a toxic mess. Some say B.C.’s cleanup rules are a mess, too
By Ashley Joannou, The Canadian Press on December 22nd, 2024
When Dean May’s team of cleaners entered the home, dressed head to toe in protective suits, thick green dust covered every surface. “We literally left footprints when we were walking in the house,” he recalled. They were traipsing through the toxic remnants of an illicit fentanyl pill-pressing operation in northern British Columbia three or four ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli expert urges justice for both Israeli, Palestinian victims of sexual violence
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – The Israeli expert leading a civilian commission into sexual violence by Hamas is calling for global bodies to recognize “a new crime against humanity,” involving violence targeted at families. Cochav Elkayam-Levy said the world should take a stance against the destruction of families as a specific, identifiable weapon of war, aimed at terrorizing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘On death row.’ Wrongfully convicted N.B. man has mixed feelings since exoneration
By Hina Alam, The Canadian Press on December 22nd, 2024
SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Robert Mailman has a problem he never thought he’d have. He has to buy Christmas presents this year. The 76-year-old was exonerated on Jan. 4 of a 1983 murder for which he and his friend Walter Gillespie served lengthy prison terms. At the time, his legal team said he had been ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP informant’s decades of spying on social reformers are chronicled in new book
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on December 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books. But he also had tasks his party comrades could know nothing about: snooping on mail, copying phone numbers from scratch pads and rummaging through waste baskets. Hadesbeck, known ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Workers helping the homeless in Montreal feel powerless as crisis deepens
By Katrine Desautels, The Canadian Press on December 22nd, 2024
MONTREAL – Social workers on the front lines of homelessness in Montreal say they feel increasingly powerless as more people find themselves forced to live in tents during the winter. Stéphanie Lareau has worked with homeless people in Montreal for the past 20 years. Normally, the tents begin to disappear by December, but this year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oysters distributed in B.C., Alberta, Ontario recalled for norovirus contamination
By The Canadian Press on December 21st, 2024
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall due to possible norovirus contamination of certain oysters distributed in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The agency says the recall covers certain Fanny Bay, Sunseeker and Cloudy Bay oysters under the Taylor Shellfish Canada brand. The recall says most of the affected oysters were harvested and ... Read More »
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