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New Indigenous Services minister says she’s been handed the ‘toughest task’
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
OTTAWA — As the first Indigenous person ever to lead the federal department responsible for delivering services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis, Mandy Gull-Masty knows she has a daunting task ahead. But the newly-appointed Indigenous services minister also knows what it’s like to sit at both sides of the table — as a cabinet ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec renews subsidy program for electric school buses
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
MONTREAL — The Quebec government is renewing a subsidy program for electric school buses that expired in March. The program will now offer subsidies of $240,000 for each purchase of an electric school bus, up from a maximum of $175,000. The news comes a week after a group of investors submitted a revised offer to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kahnawake casino owners sue Mohawk council, grand chief for $220 million
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
MONTREAL — Two owners of a casino in a First Nations community southwest of Montreal are suing the territory’s council for more than $200 million. They say the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake ignored their right to due process when it abruptly shut down the Magic Palace casino in March 2024. The closure followed a 2023 ... Read More »
1 response‘A serious situation’: Manitoba evacuates provincial park, warns of deadly wildfires
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
LAC DU BONNET — Wildfires in eastern Manitoba prompted the government to evacuate and close another popular provincial park ahead of the long weekend, while many offered condolences to the family of a stranded couple found dead in the ashes. Flags were lowered to half-mast at the legislature, where politicians held a moment of silence ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. district wants avian flu testing on ostriches facing cull
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
The Regional District of Central Kootenay says it will ask the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to conduct further testing for avian flu on a flock of ostriches facing a cull, before the region’s landfill accepts the carcasses. Supporters of the farmers who oppose the cull have celebrated the district’s resolution online, suggesting it means the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Inquest rules B.C. student’s overdose death accidental, recommends naloxone training
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
BURNABY — A coroner’s jury in British Columbia has recommended high schools provide resuscitation training and demonstrations of how to use naloxone after ruling that the overdose death of a University of Victoria student last year was accidental. The inquest found 18-year-old Sidney McIntyre-Starko died of brain injuries caused by a lack of oxygen after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada hasn’t done enough to stop exploitation of foreign workers: Amnesty
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
A representative for Amnesty International Canada says the country isn’t doing enough to stop the exploitation of temporary foreign workers brought in on visas that keep them tied to one employer. Ketty Nivyabandi, the group’s English section secretary-general, says being at the mercy of one employer allows migrant workers to be exploited to live in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Poll finds most Canadians keen on tariff retaliation as Ottawa walks a different path
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canadians are showing a lot of enthusiasm for retaliation against the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s tariffs — even as many of them fear that the country has slid into a recession already. A new Leger poll suggests a majority of Canadians — 67 per cent — are in favour of “dollar-for-dollar” retaliatory ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The government could function without a budget, but will need a spending bill
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Wednesday that when Parliament resumes, the government will put forward a middle-class tax cut, deliver a throne speech and release a fiscal plan in the fall economic update. Absent from that plan, was the traditional federal budget to start the fiscal year. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservative MP working to stop B.C. ostrich cull as farm’s supporters gather
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
Conservative MP Scott Anderson says he’s trying to stop the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from killing a flock of hundreds of ostriches on a farm in his riding, after a Federal Court ruling this week that the cull could proceed. Anderson says he visited Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood in southeast B.C. on Wednesday and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal Innu man’s ‘inhumane’ death shows need for more homeless services: coroner
By Canadian Press on May 15th, 2025
MONTREAL — The death of an unhoused Innu man whose body was found inside a portable toilet in Montreal was avoidable, a Quebec coroner said Thursday, highlighting the need for additional resources to combat homelessness. Raphaël “Napa” André died on Jan. 17, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. André, 51, was found steps away from the ... Read More »
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