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Accused in Quebec daycare bus crash that killed two kids has case postponed to August
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
LAVAL, Que. – The court case of a Quebec man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare was postponed on Tuesday to the end of August. Pierre Ny St-Amand was arrested after a city bus crashed into the front of a daycare in the Ste-Rose neighbourhood of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chief justice ‘not comfortable’ with lack of transparency over judicial complaints
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s chief justice says he has asked the national body that oversees the conduct of judges to consider making the process for dealing with complaints more transparent. At a news conference today, Richard Wagner says he is “not comfortable” with the current process because it is too opaque and insufficiently clear for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Justice minister says accusation that he intimidated Tory MP in email is ‘ridiculous’
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – An accusation from Tory MP Frank Caputo that the Liberal attorney general tried to intimidate him with an email is “ridiculous,” Justice Minister David Lametti argued on Tuesday. Caputo, who is a lawyer, said during a point of privilege in the House of Commons Monday that Lametti had seemed to threaten his reputation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local news, Quebec publishers first targets of Facebook’s block on Canadian news
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – Meta has started blocking news for some Canadians on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to a Liberal government bill that is currently being studied in the Senate. Chris Dell, news editor of Chris.D.ca, a Winnipeg-based digital news outfit, says some readers informed him Monday that they are no longer able to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rain could help Quebec firefighting effort as more than 7,200 people still evacuated
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec’s public security minister says a rainy forecast is raising hopes that the province’s more than 7,200 fire evacuees will be able to return home in the coming days. François Bonnardel told reporters this morning that rain showers and cooler temperatures should be moving into northwestern Quebec, where powerful forest fires have threatened ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash has case postponed to August
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
LAVAL, Que. – The court case of a Quebec man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare has been postponed to late August. Pierre Ny St-Amand was arrested after a city bus crashed into the front of a daycare in the Ste-Rose neighbourhood of Laval, Que., on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Civil liberties, Muslim groups ask Quebec court to suspend ban on school prayer rooms
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
MONTREAL – A civil liberties group and a Muslim advocacy organization are asking a Quebec Superior Court justice to suspend the province’s ban on prayer rooms in public schools. Lawyers for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims told a Montreal court today that the ban would cause irreparable harm ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP investigating foreign meddling attempts against three MPs
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – The RCMP says investigations are underway into alleged foreign interference involving three members of Parliament, including Conservatives Michael Chong and Erin O’Toole and New Democrat Jenny Kwan. Acting RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme confirmed the investigations this morning during a parliamentary committee meeting. He says more than 100 investigations into foreign interference writ large ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: RCMP investigating foreign meddling attempts against three MPs
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – The RCMP says it is investigating allegations of foreign meddling against three parliamentarians, including Conservative MPs Michael Chong and Erin O’Toole and NDP MP Jenny Kwan. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP attempts to prod Liberals into action on pharmacare by tabling its own bill
By The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party has tabled its own pharmacare legislation in the House of Commons, showing the New Democrats are no longer content to wait for the Liberals to make good on their promise. The NDP and Liberals struck a confidence-and-supply agreement last year that would see the NDP support ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How population growth is affecting everything from jobs to housing in the economy
By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on June 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – Rapid population growth is challenging economists’ understanding of the economy as they monitor how businesses and consumers are responding to high interest rates. The Canadian economy has outperformed expectations so far this year, avoiding the slowdown many forecasters were anticipating in response to the Bank of Canada’s aggressive rate hikes. The resilience of ... Read More »
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