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Indigenous groups going to court over Quebec’s French-language reforms
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
QUEBEC – Two Indigenous groups are going to court over the reforms passed last year to Quebec’s French-language law. The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador and the First Nations Education Council are seeking judicial review before the Quebec Superior Court regarding 14 articles in the Charter of the French Language, which was amended by Bill ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec education minister issues directive banning prayer rooms in schools
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec’s education minister is moving forward with a promise to ban prayer rooms in schools. Bernard Drainville issued a directive late Wednesday saying schools must ensure that none of their spaces are used for religious practices, including prayer. The order comes after Drainville said earlier this month that he had learned of at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family of N.S. student murdered in drug deal deliver impact statements in court
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
HALIFAX – A Nova Scotia judge heard victim impact statements today during a sentencing hearing for a former Halifax medical student who murdered a 22-year-old man during a drug deal. William Sandeson had testified in his trial before a Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury that he killed physics student Taylor Samson in self-defence on Aug. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Feds can’t say which regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions are working: audit
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco says the federal government doesn’t know how well its regulations are working to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. One of his spring audits issued today looks at five regulations intent on reducing emissions from cars and trucks, power plants and oil and gas production. DeMarco says while Environment and Climate Change ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The federal government promised to plant 2 billion trees by 2030. It’s nowhere close.
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – Two years ago, Canada embarked on an odyssey to plant two billion trees in just 10 years. An audit of the program so far says that unless things drastically change, it won’t even get one-tenth of those trees in the ground in time. The audit was one of five reports issued Thursday by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!It will take more than money to fix health care: Canadian Medical Association
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – The president of the Canadian Medical Association says the new health funding deal struck between provinces and the federal government represents the biggest nominal injection of cash into Canada’s health system, but that won’t be enough to fix what’s broken. The association compared the deal with other health agreements over the last two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In The News for April 20 : Federal public servant strike continues as both sides meet
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 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 April 20 … What we are watching in Canada … Canada’s largest federal public-service union and the federal government are both warning of likely service ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Both union, government warn of major service disruptions as a result of strike
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s largest federal public-service union and Ottawa are both warning of likely service disruptions as nearly one-third of all federal workers remain on strike. The job action taken by members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada could amount to a complete halt of the tax season, slowdowns at the border and pauses ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver police promise upgrades to psychological testing following inquest
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Police Department is promising to upgrade psychological interviews for potential new recruits and to seek funding for annual psychological check-ins for all officers. The pledges are in a report detailing how the department says it plans to implement eight recommendations from an inquest into the suicide death of Vancouver Const. Nicole ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Some U.S. cities may offer model to ease Canada transit violence: experts
By Tyler Griffin, The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
TORONTO – As Canadian cities look for ways to combat violence on public transit, experts say strategies south of the border that combine law enforcement, social supports and community engagement could offer new solutions. Violence on transit has captured national attention in recent weeks ““ a 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed on a Vancouver-area bus ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MPs tout supply management as fix for poor countries, aim to shelter from trade deals
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2023
OTTAWA – Members of Parliament are rallying to bolster Canada’s system of protecting dairy and poultry prices amid trade deals, and suggest developing countries do the same. The House of Commons trade committee is set to undertake its final, detailed review Thursday of a Bloc Québécois bill aimed at tying trade negotiators’ hands so that ... Read More »
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