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Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante won’t seek third term in 2025
By The Canadian Press on October 23rd, 2024
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says she won’t run for a third term in next year’s municipal elections. Plante’s office confirmed the news, which the mayor will make official at a news conference scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at city hall. The city’s first elected woman mayor, Plante entered office in 2017 defeating incumbent mayor Denis Coderre, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Furstenau to speak as prospects loom for minority government in B.C.
By The Canadian Press on October 23rd, 2024
VICTORIA – Green Leader Sonia Furstenau is set to meet the media for the first time since British Columbia’s indecisive election on Saturday, amid speculation about a possible minority government. The Greens announced Tuesday that Furstenau is staying on as leader despite losing her seat in the legislature, saying she was “instrumental” in B.C.’s 2017 ... Read More »
2 responsesOil removal work begins on ‘fragile’ Second World War-era wreck in coastal B.C.
By Nono Shen, The Canadian Press on October 23rd, 2024
An oil salvage operation is underway on the fragile wreckage of a U.S. army transport ship that sank almost 80 years ago off coastal British Columbia in a race to head off an eruption of thousands of litres of oil that a coast guard official says is “near imminent.” The Canadian Coast Guard said the ... Read More »
1 responsePresidents and prime ministers: How cross-border personality clashes could play out
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on October 23rd, 2024
WASHINGTON – President John F. Kennedy stood before Canadian lawmakers elucidating the important relationship between the two countries: “Geography has made us neighbours. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners.” “And necessity has made us allies,” Kennedy said in a 1961 address to Parliament. But behind the scenes, the relationship between the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Saskatchewan teachers get degrading messages after change room complaint
By Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press on October 22nd, 2024
REGINA – Saskatchewan teachers in a school division that received a complaint about two “biological boys” using a girls change room say they have received degrading messages over the past week. The Prairie Valley Teachers’ Association and the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation say in a joint statement that the comments have been disappointing and disgraceful. They ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Abdelrazik wipes away tears in court as he recounts time in Sudanese detention
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on October 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – Abousfian Abdelrazik wiped away tears as he told a court Tuesday about being imprisoned in Sudan two decades ago. He is suing the Canadian government for $27 million, claiming officials arranged for his arbitrary imprisonment, encouraged his detention by Sudanese authorities and actively obstructed his repatriation to Canada for several years. Abdelrazik came ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!At least three dead after atmospheric river drenched southern B.C.
By The Canadian Press on October 22nd, 2024
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. – Police say they have found the body of a second person who was trapped in their submerged vehicle after a road washout on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The confirmation marks at least three deaths linked to torrential rain from an atmospheric weather system that hammered B.C.’s south coast over ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Two people confirmed killed when Vancouver Island road washed out
By The Canadian Press on October 22nd, 2024
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. – RCMP say the body of a second person has been found inside their vehicle after a road washed away amid pouring rain on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Police say two vehicles went into the Sarita River when Bamfield Road washed out on Saturday as an atmospheric river hammered southern ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Child welfare reform is in the hands of the AFN after deal voted down, minister says
By Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press on October 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu says it is up to the Assembly of First Nations to come back to the federal government with a clear message about how it wants to proceed after chiefs voted against a $47.8 billion child welfare reform agreement last week. Hajdu says she is sure AFN National Chief ... Read More »
1 responseOttawa remembers reservist killed in Parliament Hill attack one decade later
By Rosa Saba, The Canadian Press on October 22nd, 2024
Ottawa marked the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Parliament Hill Tuesday, but for the family of the reservist who was killed that day the memory is still raw. “I can’t believe it’s been 10 years. It felt like it was yesterday,” said Ephraim Cirillo after a private family ceremony held at the National ... Read More »
1 responseJohn Rustad shares his B.C. Conservative origin story, in postelection message
By Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press on October 22nd, 2024
VANCOUVER – John Rustad has taken to social media to describe his origin story as leader of British Columbia’s Conservative Party, which he took from obscurity to the brink of power in Saturday’s provincial election. The Conservatives went from taking less than two per cent of the vote in 2020 to being elected or leading ... Read More »
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