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Bank of Canada, Crown corporations set to align with Liberal cost-cutting plans
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada and most other federal Crown corporations will be looking to trim their budgets alongside a wider government effort to cut costs. A spokesperson for the Bank of Canada confirms the central bank will “align” with the Liberal government’s plans to carve out savings of 15 per cent in departments’ ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. Premier David Eby reshuffles cabinet to boost economy and jobs
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s cabinet has been reworked in what Premier David Eby says is a strategic shift in order to focus on jobs and the economy. Former housing minister Ravi Kahlon takes over as minister responsible for jobs from Diana Gibson, who moves into the citizens’ services role previously held by George Chow. Garry ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s envoy for combatting antisemitism Deborah Lyons leaving post early
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada’s special official for fighting antisemitism says she is retiring her post, three months before the end of her term. Deborah Lyons served as Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism since October 2023 and has not explained why she is leaving before her appointment expires this fall. She says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal police recover body of man who went missing in St. Lawrence River
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
MONTREAL — Montreal police say they’ve recovered the body of a 32-year-old man who went missing in the St. Lawrence River on Tuesday night. Police said their divers found the man’s body at around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the water near Verdun, a southwestern borough. The death is the third since June in the water ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney says he’s ready to listen to First Nations on major projects legislation
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he’s “here to listen” to First Nations leaders about their concerns with the government’s major projects legislation. Carney and several of his cabinet ministers are meeting with hundreds of First Nations leaders in Gatineau today about the Building Canada Act. The closed-door meeting was promised in June after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Defence spending won’t slow recession, P.M. to meet First Nations
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Defence spending to boost Canada’s economy: report Ottawa’s ramped up defence-spending plans will give the economy a lift, but not enough to save it from a recession, a newly released report forecasts. The updated analysis from Oxford Economics ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Environment Canada heat warnings remain in effect from Ontario to Newfoundland
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
Daytime temperatures from Windsor, Ontario, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, are going to remain hot a little longer. Environment Canada has several heat warnings in effect this morning, along a 2,400-kilometre stretch of southeastern Canada. The warnings forecast daytime highs in some areas between 31 and 34 degrees Celsius — with a humidex of 37 to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ex-pilot called himself messiah on climate-change mission, day before alleged hijack
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
The day before the suspected hijacking of a light aircraft triggered a security scare at Vancouver’s airport this week, former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim posted on social media that he was a “messenger of Allah” sent to save humanity from climate change. A 39-year-old man with the same name has now been charged with hijacking, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!BR- Turtle-Conservation
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
VANCOUVER — It’s been a bumper year for the Greater Vancouver Zoo’s project to help save the endangered western painted turtle, which is the only native freshwater turtle in British Columbia. The zoo’s director of animal care Menita Prasad says it released more than 550 baby turtles in the past year after incubating eggs gathered ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Slow and steady progress in decade-long project to save B.C.’s only native turtle
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
Menita Prasad knows that turtles don’t rate the same kind of attention from the public as a “cute, fluffy mammal.” The director of animal care at Greater Vancouver Zoo says that’s one reason why British Columbia’s endangered western painted turtles deserve special care. The zoo is part of a decade-long project to revive the fortunes ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney to meet with First Nations today on major projects legislation
By Canadian Press on July 17th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet today with First Nations leaders about his government’s controversial major projects legislation. The closed-door meeting was promised by Carney in June after chiefs said their rights were not respected by the rush to push the Building Canada Act through Parliament in June. The legislation allows cabinet to ... Read More »
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