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Saskatchewan minister asked man guilty of domestic violence to return service medal
By The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
REGINA – Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister says he requested a public service medal be returned as the recipient had been charged with domestic violence. David Marit says in a statement that it’s not appropriate for someone guilty of domestic abuse to receive a medal or an honour from the province. Jim Wickett, a former chairman of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As federal workers threaten to strike, tonight’s deadline for a deal looms large
By The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
OTTAWA – The clock is ticking for the government and Canada’s largest federal public-service union to reach an agreement by a deadline of 9 p.m. EDT tonight. If they don’t, some 155,000 workers are prepared to walk off the job on Wednesday. Mediated contract negotiations between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the government ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!U.S. crackdown on fentanyl trade underway as Canada vows ‘public health approach’
By The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
WASHINGTON – Senior members of President Joe Biden’s cabinet will be in Ottawa in the coming weeks to meet with their Canadian counterparts about cracking down on fentanyl. The timing of this year’s Cross-Border Crime Forum is still unconfirmed, but U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are expected to attend. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal-area mayor discloses being sex assault victim of ex-PQ member Harold LeBel
By The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
MONTREAL – The mayor of a Montreal suburb has revealed herself as the sexual assault victim of ex-Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel. Catherine Fournier had asked Quebec Superior Court Justice Serge Francoeur during a hearing last month to remove the publication ban on her identity. Francoeur on April 6 approved the request, which enters into ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In The News for April 18, 2023: Did you miss out on the new federal benefits?
By The Canadian Press on April 18th, 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 Tuesday, April 18, 2023 … What we are watching in Canada … A new report finds that hundreds of thousands of Canadians may have missed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Inquest to hear officers’ testimony in 2015 police-involved death of B.C. man
By The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
BURNABY, B.C. – Vancouver police officers involved in a fatal beating of a man almost eight years ago are expected to testify this week at a coroner’s inquest into the death. Myles Gray, who was 33, died in August 2015, shortly after a beating by seven officers, leaving him with a broken eye socket, a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thousands of Canadians missed out on federal housing and dental benefits: report
By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
OTTAWA – A new report says hundreds of thousands of Canadians may have missed out on government money intended to help with the rising cost of living because the housing and dental benefits rolled out last year have had “atrocious” take-up. The analysis by David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario tells court of ‘unwarranted incursion’ into cabinet in mandate letters case
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Ontario government is telling the country’s top court the disclosure of ministerial mandate letters would reveal the substance of deliberations of the premier and his cabinet – breaching a key tenet of Westminster-style government. In a written brief filed with the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario attorney general says cabinet confidentiality, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Premier calls for silent reflection to mark anniversary of Nova Scotia mass shooting
By The Canadian Press on April 18th, 2023
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is asking people to pause for a moment of silence today at noon and again on Wednesday to remember the 22 people killed three years ago during the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. Houston issued a statement saying the impact of the tragedy in northern and central ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Twenty-year-old charged with murder following stabbing death of teen on B.C. bus
By The Canadian Press on April 17th, 2023
SURREY, B.C. – A 20-year-old man from Burnaby, B.C., has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a teenager on a Metro Vancouver transit bus last week. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Bespflug was killed on a bus in Surrey, B.C., last Tuesday. The province’s integrated homicide investigations team says 20-year-old Kaiden Mintenko was arrested ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver officers involved in beating death should be fired, victim’s sister says
By Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press on April 17th, 2023
BURNABY, B.C. – The family of a man beaten to death during a confrontation with Vancouver police says the officers involved should lose their jobs, while others should be better trained to respond to people experiencing mental health challenges. Melissa Gray said the death of her only sibling, Myles, has devastated their family and they’ve ... Read More »
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