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Charities find loopholes in ‘broken’ terror laws to help Afghans as MPs study bill
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – Humanitarian and development groups say Canada’s vague terror laws have forced them to find loopholes in the Criminal Code for aid workers to operate in Taliban-held Afghanistan, as MPs consider amendments to the law. “Every organization has a different risk appetite,” World Vision Canada’s policy director Martin Fischer told the House justice committee ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!At least 7 of the men caught crossing border from Manitoba are Mexican: officials
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
WARROAD, Minn. – United States officials say at least seven of the nine men caught crossing the border this week from southeast Manitoba are Mexican citizens. RCMP were first alerted to the group when one of them called 911 early Tuesday suffering from the cold weather. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency says the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau told NATO Canada can’t meet defence spending target, Washington Post reports
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
WASHINGTON – The Washington Post says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau privately told NATO that Canada would never meet the military alliance’s targets for defence spending. The Post report, published today, is based on the contents of a trove of top-secret Pentagon documents that were leaked online in recent weeks. The report cites one anonymous document ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senator says several cabinet ministers knew she was issuing travel docs to Afghans
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – A Manitoba senator who denies falsifying travel documents says several cabinet ministers were aware of her choice to send letters to Afghans to help them flee as the Taliban took over the country, and that no one told her to stop. The Globe and Mail reports that 150 Afghans who received letters from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta’s United Conservative Party government releases ‘aspirational’ climate plan
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
EDMONTON – Alberta’s United Conservative Party government released a climate plan Wednesday that it hopes will take the province to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 but offers few details, targets or new measures on how it would get there. Instead, Environment Minister Sonya Savage has promised a package of commissions, committees and studies to determine ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minister’s sister-in-law steps down as ethics watchdog after committee launches probe
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has stepped down as the interim ethics commissioner a day after a House of Commons committee agreed to investigate her appointment. Martine Richard, who has worked in the commissioner’s office as a lawyer since 2013, took over the top job last month for a six-month stint. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. First Nation sues port firm, others for disrupting ancestral remains
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The Bonaparte First Nation in British Columbia’s Interior is suing a shipping port company and several others, claiming railway infrastructure development has destroyed and disturbed its ancestral burial grounds. In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the First Nation says Ashcroft Terminals Ltd. and defendants that include the provincial ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senator to appear before parliamentary committee over inauthentic docs for Afghans
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – A Manitoba senator who denies falsifying travel documents for Afghan refugees will be grilled by a committee of parliamentarians over allegations her actions may have left refugees stranded. Sen. Marilou McPhedran, a lawyer and human rights advocate, gave a tearful speech in the Senate on Feb. 2, saying she was given a template ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver police officer tells inquest he punched Myles Gray as hard as he could
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
BURNABY, B.C. – A Vancouver police officer told a British Columbia coroner’s jury that he punched Myles Gray in the head as hard as he could several times because he didn’t think anything else would work to subdue the man, other than shooting him. Const. Kory Folkestad testified on the third day of the inquest ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. limits supply of Ozempic for its diabetes patients, not weight loss in U.S.
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia is bringing in a new regulation immediately to ensure diabetes patients don’t face a shortage of the drug Ozempic, touted by celebrities for its weight loss side-effects. Health Minister Adrian Dix said Wednesday the change will ensure patients in B.C. and Canada needing Ozempic to treat their Type 2 diabetes will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court delays decision on abortion drug stalemate, extending stay to Friday
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court is buying itself two more days before it resolves a legal stalemate over the abortion drug mifepristone. The court has extended until Friday a stay on a controversial ruling in Texas that invalidated federal approvals for the drug. That means the deadlock over two conflicting federal rulings – and ... Read More »
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