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B.C. smashes advance voting record as forecast calls for election-day drenching
By Nono Shen and Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
VANCOUVER – More than a million British Columbians have already cast their provincial election ballots, smashing the advance voting record ahead of what weather forecasters say will be a rain-drenched election day in much of B.C., with snow also predicted for the north. Elections BC said Thursday that 1,001,331 people had cast ballots in six ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tobacco giants would pay out $32.5 billion to provinces, smokers in proposed deal
By Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to some 100,000 Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle. The companies – JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP say girl’s death in Alberta lake could be criminal
By The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
WABAMUN, Alta. – Mounties say they’re treating the death of a five-year-old girl pulled from an Alberta lake as a criminal matter. RCMP said Sunday that two people had been found after a canoe overturned on Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton. They said bystanders recovered the girl from the lake and, despite life-saving efforts, paramedics ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: RCMP say girl’s death in Alberta lake could be criminal
By The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
WABAMUN, Alta. – Mounties say they’re treating the death of a five-year-old girl pulled from an Alberta lake as a criminal matter. RCMP said Sunday that two people had been found after a canoe overturned on Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton. They said bystanders recovered the girl from the lake and, despite life-saving efforts, paramedics ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!India again rejects Canada’s claims it works with gangs targeting Sikh separatists
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
OTTAWA – India’s foreign ministry says Ottawa is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims it is behind widespread crimes in Canada. The federal government ordered India’s top envoy to leave the country on Monday after the RCMP said it had credible evidence that Indian agents played a role ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Saskatchewan Party’s Moe pledges change room ban in schools; Beck calls it desperate
By Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
REGINA – Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is promising a directive banning “biological boys” from using school changing rooms with “biological girls” if re-elected, a move the NDP’s Carla Beck says weaponizes vulnerable kids. Moe made the pledge Thursday at a campaign stop in Regina. He said it was in response to a complaint that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bad weather forecast for B.C. election day as record numbers vote in advance polls
By Nono Shen and Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
VANCOUVER – More than a million British Columbians have already cast their provincial election ballots, smashing the advance voting record ahead of what weather forecasters say will be a rain-drenched election day in much of B.C., with snow also predicted for the north. Elections BC said Thursday that 1,001,331 people had cast ballots in six ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Promise tracker: What the Saskatchewan Party and NDP pledge to do if they win Oct. 28
By The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
REGINA – Saskatchewan’s provincial election is on Oct. 28. Here’s a look at some of the campaign promises made by the two major parties: Saskatchewan Party – Continue withholding federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa on natural gas until the end of 2025. – Reduce personal income tax rates over four years; a family of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau to shuffle cabinet as four ministers say they won’t seek re-election
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
OTTAWA – With a simmering mutiny plot in the backbenches and four more cabinet ministers deciding not to seek re-election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s attempt to right the Liberal ship and stay on as captain is becoming more challenging. Trudeau is expected to shuffle his cabinet again after the ministers informed the Prime Minister’s Office ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montrealer ordered to pay $35,000 fine for not declaring luxury watch at border
By Maura Forrest, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
MONTREAL – In a Federal Court ruling that opens with the judge musing that “time is money,” a Montreal business owner has been ordered to pay a hefty fine after he imported a luxury watch without declaring it to customs. Justice Sébastien Grammond ruled Tuesday that David Segall Blouin must pay a $35,000 fine and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau says death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar ‘ends a reign of terror’
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on October 17th, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip “ends a reign of terror.” The Israeli military declared today that it had killed Sinwar during a Wednesday battle and confirmed his death with a DNA test. Sinwar was one of the chief architects of the attack ... Read More »
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