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Deputy premier Sharma says B.C. needs to be “respected” by Ottawa, other provinces
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s deputy premier says the province continues to follow a Team Canada approach, but it also needs to be “respected as a province” amid growing tensions among Western premiers. Media reports say the federal government is expected to announce a memorandum of understanding with Alberta this week that could include a pipeline ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Official languages commissioner concerned about federal budget cuts
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
MONTREAL — Canada’s commissioner of official languages says he wants to ensure language rights don’t suffer as a result of federal spending cuts. Raymond Théberge was speaking today in Dieppe, N.B., where he tabled his midterm findings on the 2023-2028 action plan, which includes $4.1 billion in funding. The commissioner says it’s important that official ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec begins consultations on potential revision of greenhouse gas targets
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
MONTRÉAL — Quebec is beginning consultations at the provincial legislature on whether to revise its greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The province committed to reducing its annual emissions by 37.5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030 in the wake of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Environment Minister Bernard Drainville told the consultation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge says Amazon needed 100 lawyers to assess 2.25 M documents in competition probe
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge says Amazon Canada should have hired “at least 100 lawyers” to go through more than 2 million documents, in order to meet court-ordered deadlines in an investigation into potentially anti-competitive conduct. Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton says in an explanation of his ruling to grant some extensions for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Beekeepers call for import ban on non-North American bees as deadly mite spreads
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canadian beekeepers are sounding the alarm about a pest that’s spreading in parts of Asia, and calling on the federal government to take action. A group representing the Canadian Beekeepers Federation and the Alberta Beekeepers Commission was on Parliament Hill today as part of a lobbying effort. They’re alarmed by the spread of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney says his comment about speaking with Trump was a ‘poor choice of words’
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his recent reply to a question about the state of trade talks with the U.S. — “Who cares?” — amounted to “a poor choice of words.” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre hammered the prime minister over his comment during question period in the House of Commons today. Poilievre says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec to extend religious symbols ban, outlaw university prayer rooms in new bill
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
MONTREAL — The Quebec government will table a new bill this week to strengthen secularism rules in the province, including a ban on prayer rooms in colleges and universities. The bill, to be tabled Thursday, will deliver on the government’s promises to prohibit prayer in public places, and to extend the province’s religious symbols ban ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court clears Manitoba Métis president of wrongdoing in case launched by national body
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Manitoba Métis Federation is celebrating an Ontario Superior Court decision that found its president did not breach his fiduciary duties while serving as finance minister for the Métis National Council. In a decision released Tuesday, Justice Loretta P. Merritt wrote that a series of transactions made under the leadership of former MNC ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!$50K reward to help find Liam Toman, Ontario man last seen at Quebec ski resort town
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
MONTREAL — A Montreal non-profit is offering up to $50,000 for information that could help find an Ontario man who went missing in the Mont-Tremblant, Que., area in February. Liam Toman, 22, disappeared around 3 a.m. on Feb. 2 after leaving a bar in the ski village north of Montreal following a night out with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CBSA, PMO say they were not involved in MP announcing ban on Belfast band Kneecap
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency and the Prime Minister’s Office say they were not involved in an Ontario Liberal MP’s announcement that members of the Belfast band Kneecap were banned from entering Canada. Vince Gasparro, parliamentary secretary for combating crime, released a social media video in September announcing the ban in response to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MPs call on feds to bring back bill criminalizing coercive behaviour in relationships
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — MPs on the House of Commons status of women committee want the government to criminalize coercive behaviour in intimate relationships. The committee members, representing multiple parties, issued a report today following a committee study on the issue of coercive control. Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu says coercive behaviour in relationships can include things like ... Read More »
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