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Health ministers are set to wrap up two days of meetings in Charlottetown
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
CHARLOTTETOWN – Federal Health Minister Mark Holland and his provincial and territorial counterparts are wrapping up two days of meetings in Prince Edward Island today. Earlier this week, Holland said a focus of these meetings would be how provinces and territories are going to expand their health workforces and retain those already there amid what ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Mountie tells court he was unaware of secrets sent to investigative targets
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
OTTAWA – A former RCMP investigator who worked on a money laundering probe says he was unaware at the time that someone had sent secret information to people who were of interest to authorities. Retired staff sergeant Patrick Martin testified today in the trial of Cameron Jay Ortis, a former RCMP intelligence official charged with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court to rule if federal environmental impact assessment law can stand
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
Canada’s highest court is slated to rule Friday on federal environmental legislation in a decision expected to settle – for now – the role of different levels of government in balancing the economic benefits and environmental costs of resource development. The Supreme Court has said it will deliver its ruling on the constitutionality of Bill ... Read More »
1 responseSaskatchewan government tables school pronoun bill, invokes notwithstanding clause
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
REGINA – The Saskatchewan government has tabled legislation and the notwithstanding clause to prevent children under 16 from changing their names or pronouns at school without parental consent. A judge granted an injunction at the end of September pausing the Saskatchewan Party government’s pronoun policy. Premier Scott Moe pledged the same day to recall the ... Read More »
1 responseCanada committing $10M in humanitarian aid for Israel, Gaza as Canadian flights leave
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is giving an initial $10 million in humanitarian assistance for urgent needs in Israel and the Gaza Strip. He also says the first airlift of 130 Canadians that left Tel Aviv earlier today has landed in Athens. The federal government said Wednesday that flights could begin leaving ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Loving, proud, kind, joyful: Who were the three Canadians killed by Hamas in Israel
By Liam Fox, The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
OTTAWA – Friends and family have confirmed that at least three Canadians were killed last weekend when Hamas militants conducted a series of brutal attacks in Israel. Two Canadian men were killed by Hamas gunmen who ambushed a music festival in southern Israel, according to their loved ones in Canada. And an Israeli Canadian mother ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian police forces upping local patrols in response to Israel-Hamas war
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
TORONTO – Some Canadian police forces say they are increasing local patrols in response to the Israel-Hamas war while offering assurances they have not received any credible threats. Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw says there have been no specific credible threats locally, but the war has shaken the feelings of peace and security in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec premier inaugurates vast Romaine hydro project on North Shore
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
HAVRE-ST-PIERRE, Que. – Quebec Premier François Legault is inaugurating the Romaine hydroelectric complex on the province’s North Shore. Legault is accompanied at today’s event by Jean Charest, who was Quebec premier when construction began in 2009, as well as Hydro-Québec president and CEO Michael Sabia. La Romaine is comprised of four power stations and is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec premier inaugurates vast la Romaine hydro project on North Shore
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
HAVRE-ST-PIERRE, Que. – Quebec Premier François Legault is inaugurating la Romaine hydroelectric complex on the province’s North Shore. Legault is accompanied at today’s event by Jean Charest, who was Quebec premier when construction began in 2009, as well as Hydro-Québec president and CEO Michael Sabia. La Romaine is comprised of four power stations and is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘What about Gaza’: Canadian woman stuck in Gaza fears death, pleads for Ottawa’s help
By Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
MISSISSAUGA – A Canadian woman trapped in Gaza says she is afraid she could die at any moment as Israeli warplanes drop bombs around her in the sealed-off Palestinian territory, and she’s pleading for Ottawa’s help. “Please, please, please, please help us,” said Mississauga, Ont., resident Khloud Fayyad, crying as she spoke by phone from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘It was intolerable’: Ottawa local testifies at trial of ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers
By The Canadian Press on October 12th, 2023
OTTAWA – Local Ottawa resident Sarah Gawman told an Ottawa courtroom today that the sound of horn honking during the “Freedom Convoy” was incessant and intolerable. Gawman is the first civilian witness to testify in the criminal trial of protest organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. She says she lived in a high-rise condo building ... Read More »
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