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Canada’s Haiti airlift expands to include relatives, residents and charter flight
By The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada is expanding its evacuation of citizens from Haiti to include relatives and Canadian permanent residents. The government has also arranged for a charter flight for Canadians who pay a market rate to fly between the Dominican Republic and Montreal. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced a week ago that Canada was airlifting ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Petapan Treaty: Innu accuse Quebec of bad faith on talks for innovative agreement
By The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
QUEBEC – Three Innu communities in Quebec are accusing the provincial government of acting in bad faith a year after the deadline passed to conclude a treaty that has been under negotiation for more than 40 years. The chiefs of Essipit, Pekuakamiulnuatsh, and Nutashkuan say the Quebec government reneged on a commitment to finalize the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau announces national school food program to feed 400,000 more kids per year
By The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the upcoming federal budget will include a national school food program. Trudeau made the announcement in Toronto today with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Families Minister Jenna Sudds as part of the Liberal government’s pre-budget tour. The program is expected to provide meals to 400,000 more kids per ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Newfoundland’s premier asks Trudeau for meeting to discuss carbon price alternatives
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
OTTAWA – One of seven premiers who asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pause the consumer carbon price increase is now asking for a meeting to discuss alternatives, while another is calling for a change in government. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey penned a letter to Trudeau over the weekend asking for an “emergency ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Newfoundland’s premier asks Trudeau for meeting over carbon price alternatives
By The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
OTTAWA – One of seven premiers who asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pause the consumer carbon price increase is now asking him for a meeting to discuss alternatives. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey penned a letter to Trudeau over the weekend asking for an “emergency meeting of leaders.” The four Atlantic premiers and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Benoît Pelletier dies at 64
By The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Benoît Pelletier has died in Mexico at age 64. In a statement announcing his death, his family described him as an attentive husband and devoted father who was deeply committed to Quebec and the French language. Pelletier was a well-known University of Ottawa law professor when he made the leap ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news for today: Carbon price increase today and Biz boost from solar eclipse
By The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… What to know about today’s carbon price increase The national price on pollution is going up another $15 per tonne today. The price change means filling a 50 litre tank with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rescuers look for improved tides this week in effort to save orphaned B.C. whale
By The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – The tides are expected to be more promising this week in the northern Vancouver Island lagoon where an orphaned orca so far can’t be convinced to leave. Work to coax the two-year-old Bigg’s killer whale over a sandbar and into the open ocean started after its mother died more than a week ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carbon pricing 101: What today’s increase could mean for you
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on April 1st, 2024
OTTAWA – The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today. Here’s some questions answered about what this could mean for you. Who pays the carbon price? Canada has two different carbon pricing programs – one for big industry where companies pay the price on a share of their actual emissions, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Small forest fire put out in Oka provincial park as Quebec fire season starts early
By The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2024
MONTREAL – A small forest fire has been extinguished in a provincial park west of Montreal, signalling an early start to the 2024 wildfire season. A spokesman for Quebec’s forest fire prevention society, known as SOPFEU, says the fire that broke out Saturday in Oka park was likely caused by a discarded cigarette. Stéphane Caron ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario man now holds world record as oldest kidney transplant recipient
By Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2024
Walter Tauro says he didn’t even know what Guinness World Records were before he was recognized by the popular British corporation as the world’s oldest kidney transplant recipient earlier this month. “I never heard of it,” the 88-year-old said with a laugh during a Sunday phone interview from his home in Markham, Ont. But once ... Read More »
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