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NDP to back Tory motion calling for carbon price off all heat sources
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The New Democrats say they will back the Conservatives on a motion to pull the carbon price off all home heating until after the next election. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tabled the motion today, insisting the government’s decision last week to temporarily pause carbon pricing for home heating oil for three years is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta doctors ‘trepidatious’ about changes to already fragile health-care system
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
The new president of the Alberta Medical Association says doctors are “trepidatious” about expected changes to the province’s health-care delivery system. Dr. Paul Parks has been touring the province to hear from physicians in hospitals and clinics about their concerns. He says two of the main issues he’s hearing about are the ongoing crisis in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Positive step’ toward equality for women to form majority on Supreme Court: Virani
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The majority of Supreme Court of Canada justices are going to be women for the first time in its 148-year history, and that’s a positive step for gender equality in the country writ large, Justice Minister Arif Virani said Thursday. Mary Moreau, the chief justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minister intervenes in deportation of man facing death sentence in Egypt
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – A man who was set to be deported from Canada to Egypt, where he faces a death sentence, says the federal immigration minister intervened in his case and prevented his removal. Dr. Ezzat Gouda was ordered to return to Egypt by Nov. 1, despite claims that he would be persecuted and killed because ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Abnormal’: Quebec says there are still too many asylum seekers entering the province
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
Quebec’s immigration minister says the number of asylum seekers entering the province is “abnormal.” Christine Fréchette told reporters today that the federal government needs to do more to distribute would-be refugees across the country. She says that since the closure of Roxham Road – the irregular land border crossing between Quebec and New York state ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge gives Saskatoon mother conditional sentence for abduction, forgery
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
SASKATOON – A Saskatoon woman accused of faking her death and that of her child before they crossed the border into the United States has been given a one-year conditional sentence. Dawn Walker must also serve 18 months of probation. Provincial court Judge Brad Mitchell accepted a joint-recommendation for the sentence from Crown and defence ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Judge gives Saskatoon mother conditional sentence in abduction case
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
SASKATOON – A judge has given Dawn Walker, a Saskatoon woman accused of faking her death and that of her child before they crossed the border into the United States, a one-year conditional sentence. She must also serve 18 months of probation. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian man in Gaza says Ottawa has asked him to be prepared to leave with family
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
A Canadian man trying to get out of Gaza with his family says Global Affairs Canada has asked him to gather his documents and be prepared to leave at any moment through the enclave’s border crossing with Egypt. Mahmoud Nasser says his wife, who has a Brazilian passport, got a call from Global Affairs today ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian prisons ‘disturbingly and unconscionably Indigenized’: corrections watchdog
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal prison watchdog says there are still too many Indigenous people behind bars in Canada. In fact, correctional investigator Ivan Zinger says the problem has gotten significantly worse since he originally flagged it a decade ago. Zinger’s latest annual report says 32 per cent of all federal inmates in Canada – and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Saskatoon mother accused of faking deaths, going to U.S. pleads guilty to 3 charges
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
SASKATOON – A Saskatoon woman accused of faking her death and that of her child before they crossed the border into the United States has pleaded guilty to three charges and apologized in court. Dawn Walker pleaded guilty to forgery offences as well as abduction in contravention of a custody or parenting order. A joint ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Top court nominee chosen for expertise in criminal, constitutional law, MPs hear
By The Canadian Press on November 2nd, 2023
OTTAWA – The chair of the independent advisory board tasked with helping to fill a vacancy on Canada’s top court says they were looking for a candidate who was an expert in both criminal and constitutional law. Wade MacLaughlin, a former premier of Prince Edward Island, spoke at a parliamentary committee today about why the ... Read More »
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