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Ottawa to offer universities, colleges low-cost loans to build new student housing
OTTAWA – Housing Minister Sean Fraser says post-secondary institutions will be able to apply for low-interest loans to build student housing starting this fall. Post-secondary institutions will have access to a pre-existing program that offers developers low-cost financing to build rental apartments. The Apartment Construction Loan Program was topped up with an additional $15 billion ... Read More »
Source: Saskatchewan Roughriders re-sign veteran Lanier II to contract extension
REGINA – Anthony Lanier II will be returning for a fourth season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. According to a league source, the six-foot-six, 285-pound defensive lineman signed a one-year contract extension with the CFL club Monday. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity as the Riders haven’t announced the move. But Saskatchewan did announce ... Read More »
Lawyers push national body to pull support on expanding assisted dying eligibility
OTTAWA – Some lawyers are pushing their national advocacy organization to withdraw support for an update to Canada’s medical assistance in dying system. The change scheduled for March is set to expand eligibility to people whose only medical condition is a mental disorder. The Canadian Bar Association previously argued that excluding such patients could violate ... Read More »
Former Major League manager Jimy Williams, who spent 9 seasons with Jays, dead at 80
TORONTO – Former Toronto Blue Jays manager Jimy Williams has died. The Blue Jays confirmed Williams’s death Monday on social media but did not provide a cause of death. He was 80. Williams joined the Blue Jays in 1980 as third-base coach. He was promoted to manager in 1986 to replace Bobby Cox, who left ... Read More »
‘Undue risk’: Inquest into mass stabbing in Saskatchewan hears from parole board
MELFORT, Sask. – A coroner’s inquest into a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation heard Monday about why parole was denied for the man who would later go on to kill 11 people. Myles Sanderson went on a deadly rampage on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby community of Weldon, northeast ... Read More »
B.C. blocks new colleges seeking to enrol international students
SURREY, B.C. – British Columbia’s Minister of Post-Secondary Education Selina Robinson says no new institutions will be allowed to enrol international students for two years. Robinson also says the province is setting minimum language requirements so international students are “better prepared” before coming to B.C. She says in a release that many students are being ... Read More »
Ex-IRS contractor gets five years in prison for leak of tax return information of Trump, rich people
WASHINGTON (AP) – A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service who pleaded guilty to leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people was sentenced to five years in prison Monday. Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized ... Read More »
CP NewsAlert: B.C. blocks new colleges seeking to enrol international students
ST JOHN’S, Antigua And Barbuda – British Columbia’s Minister of Post-Secondary Education Selina Robinson says no new institutions will be allowed to enrol international students for two years. More coming... Read More »
Preliminary report suggests enemy drone that killed US troops in Jordan was mistaken for a US drone
WASHINGTON (AP) – An enemy drone that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan may have been confused with an American drone returning to the U.S. installation, two U.S. officials said Monday. The officials, who were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity, said the preliminary accounts suggest the enemy ... Read More »
Preliminary probe suggests enemy drone that killed US troops in Jordan was mistaken for a US drone
WASHINGTON (AP) – An enemy drone that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan may have been confused with an American drone returning to the U.S. installation, U.S. officials said. The two officials, who were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity, said Monday the preliminary accounts suggest the enemy ... Read More »
New Zealand mountaineer is fourth person to die in B.C. heli-ski crash
A New Zealand mountaineering expert injured in the heli-skiing crash north of Terrace, B.C., last week has died, bringing the death toll to four. The New Zealand Mountain Guides Association says In a Facebook post that its president, Lewis Ainsworth, had been on the Northern Escape Heli-Skiing helicopter as a guide. Ainsworth’s mother, Marney Ainsworth, ... Read More »
