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In The News for March 31: Drilling down on cost of federal dental care
By The Canadian Press on March 31st, 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 March 31… What we are watching in Canada … The search is expected to continue today after six bodies were discovered Thursday in the St. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Relatives of those killed in N.S. mass shooting say their work has only just begun
By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
HALIFAX – The brother of a man killed during a mass shooting in Nova Scotia almost three years ago says he’s keen to make sure recommendations from a public inquiry released Thursday are implemented. “It’s great to have things move forward,” Scott McLeod told a news conference in Truro, N.S., a community about a 30-minute ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump denounces ‘unthinkable’ indictment as evidence of ‘political persecution’
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump has become the first former U.S. president to face a criminal indictment – and he’s wasting no time trying to turn it to his advantage. Multiple media reports, citing anonymous sources, say the grand jury in New York voted late Thursday to indict Trump in the Stormy Daniels case. The indictment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Freeland says budget lacked housing measures because 2022 funds still being spent
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
SURREY, B.C. – Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says this week’s federal budget lacked new measures to address Canada’s housing crisis because last year’s budget already included a $10-billion plan that’s still being spent. Freeland says on a visit to British Columbia that last year’s budget allocated funds for the $4-billion housing accelerator program launched earlier ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Non-profit organizations call on government to protect Muslim charities
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
OTTAWA – Several members of the non-profit sector, including the United Way and Imagine Canada, are calling on the federal government to take immediate steps to shield Muslim-led charities from potentially discriminatory federal audits. More than a dozen organizations issued a statement urging Ottawa to act following the release this week of the taxpayers’ ombudsperson’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Turpel-Lafond returns honorary degree granted by Simon Fraser University in B.C.
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
Officials at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., have accepted the return of an honorary degree awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the former judge and law professor whose claims of Indigenous ancestryhave been discredited. A statement from SFU president Joy Johnson says Turpel-Lafond opted to return the 2016 award after the university told her it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec pedophile hunters face child pornography distribution charges
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
GATINEAU, Que. – Members of a self-proclaimed group of Quebec pedophile hunters have been arrested and face 38 charges including distribution of child pornography. Gatineau police say six people were arrested Thursday as part of a crackdown on the vigilante group. Five of the suspects, four men and a woman aged 24 to 27, face ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rush for diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic puts cross-border sales in spotlight
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The Canadian Pharmacists Association says protecting Canadian drug supplies from mass exportation to the U.S. market remains a priority in light of British Columbia’s recent move to limit sales of the diabetes drug Ozempic, which has been hyped as a weight-loss treatment. Joelle Walker, the association’s vice-president of public and professional affairs, says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Concerns raised over recommendation to phaseout RCMP police training Depot in Regina
By Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
REGINA – Saskatchewan politicians are raising concerns after a report recommended RCMP’s Depot police training academy in Regina be phased out for a new degree-style system. A report released Thursday into the 2020 shooting rampage in Nova Scotia that left 22 people dead recommended the phaseout by 2032, and that provinces instead establish three-year policing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Liberal minister’s sister-in-law appointed as interim ethics commissioner
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
OTTAWA – The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has been named interim ethics commissioner as her office launches a search for a permanent new conflict-of-interest watchdog. Martine Richard, who has been employed in the office as a lawyer since 2013, was appointed for the six-month stint this week. Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former priest acquitted of assault after allegations from residential school survivor
By Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
WINNIPEG – A judge acquitted a now-retired priest who was accused of forcing himself on a residential school student more than 50 years ago, saying she believes an assault happened but could not determine beyond a reasonable doubt who did it. Victoria McIntosh, who had about a dozen supporters with her in a Winnipeg courtroom ... Read More »
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