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Tensions over CUSMA ahead of Biden’s Ottawa visit : In The News for Mar. 21
By The Canadian Press on March 21st, 2023
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Mar. 21 … What we are watching in Canada … It’s been less than three years since the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaced NAFTA as the law ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Saskatchewan First Nation comes to B.C. to talk about taking over child welfare
By The Canadian Press on March 21st, 2023
VANCOUVER – Leaders of a Saskatchewan First Nation are in Vancouver to launch plans to take over control of child welfare services for its members. It comes as the Key First Nation sent a letter to Premier David Eby expressing “heartbreak and outrage” at the loss of one of its teenage members while she was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian MPs of all stripes condemn Punjab crackdown as some receive online threats
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on March 21st, 2023
OTTAWA – A cross-section of Canadian MPs are calling out an Indian government crackdown in the state of Punjab, and those criticizing internet restrictions are receiving threatening responses online. For at least three days, authorities in Punjab have restricted communications and the size of gatherings as authorities search for Sikh separatist leader Amritpal Singh. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Income tax cuts expected as Quebec finance minister to table budget today
By The Canadian Press on March 21st, 2023
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard is scheduled to table the first budget of the Coalition Avenir Québec’s second mandate this afternoon. Girard broke with tradition on Monday – instead of buying new shoes ahead of the budget, he announced a $5,000 donation to a Quebec City community centre. He said today’s budget will also include ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New toll-free phone number created to direct Canadians to available poison centres
By The Canadian Press on March 21st, 2023
Health Canada is launching a new toll-free phone number for poison centres. Canadians can now call 1-844-POISON-X to access critical medical advice for poisonings. The initiative was launched to make it easier for Canadians to access information on poison centres from anywhere in the country. Health Canada says many Canadians don’t know the phone number ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two men who lost fingers crossing into Canada become Canadian citizens
By Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press on March 20th, 2023
WINNIPEG – Razak Iyal was given a warm embrace as he officially became a Canadian citizen, more than six years after nearly freezing to death walking across the Canada-United States border in Manitoba. It was a low-key citizenship ceremony but one steeped in hope, gratitude and assurance. Iyal, 40, was joined by a group of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Funeral for two officers shot and killed in Edmonton scheduled for next week
By The Canadian Press on March 20th, 2023
EDMONTON – Police say a regimental funeral has been scheduled for two Edmonton officers who were shot and killed in the line of duty last week. The funeral for Travis Jordan, who was 35, and Brett Ryan, 30, is to be held March 27 at Rogers Place, the home arena for the Edmonton Oilers of ... Read More »
1 responseCSIS, RCMP interviewed Mauritanian man at Guantanamo, feds say in denying wrongdoing
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on March 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal government acknowledges in a new court filing that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP interviewed a Mauritanian man at a Guantanamo Bay prison in 2003. But the government denies Canada supplied faulty information that contributed to the detention and torture of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the ... Read More »
1 responseAirbnb criticized after 1 killed, 6 missing in charred rubble of Montreal building
By Sidhartha Banerjee and Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on March 20th, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec politicians criticized short-term rental company Airbnb on Monday for failing to be a proper corporate citizen, after a building used for illegal rentals was ravaged by a fire that killed one and left at least six missing under the rubble. Firefighters have said that several apartments in the building located in Old ... Read More »
1 responseCanada will take a ‘hard long look’ at UN call to speed emissions reduction: minister
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on March 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada will take a “hard long look” at a call from global climate scientists to hit its long-term greenhouse gas emissions targets 10 years earlier than planned. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the call in a new report Monday warning the world is teetering ... Read More »
1 responseLiberals float possibility of making motion on foreign interference a confidence vote
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on March 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – Liberal House Leader Mark Holland isn’t ruling out turning a Conservative motion on foreign interference into a confidence vote that could topple the government and would test the strength of the supply-and-confidence deal between the Liberals and the NDP. The Conservatives tabled the motion in the House of Commons Monday demanding that Prime ... Read More »
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