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Tensions rising between Canada Post, union as strike nears four-week mark
By The Canadian Press on December 11th, 2024
Canada Post and the union representing postal workers are in a war of words as a countrywide strike enters its 27th day. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers pushed back on recent criticisms from Canada Post in a bulletin to members Tuesday evening, giving a list of proposals it said are meant to bring the ... Read More »
1 responseTrudeau set to speak with premiers to tackle Trump’s tariff plan
By Nick Murray, The Canadian Press on December 11th, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to meet with provincial and territorial premiers this afternoon to talk Canada-U.S. relations. The premiers will virtually discuss a joint plan to tackle the threat of 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports by incoming U.S. president Donald Trump. The meeting is the first time Trudeau will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!BoC widely expected to cut interest rates today, odds leaning toward half-point cut
By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on December 11th, 2024
OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada is set to make its final interest rate announcement of the year this morning. Forecasters are widely expecting a half-percentage point interest rate cut. That would bring the Bank of Canada’s key rate down to 3.25 per cent. The November labour force survey solidified those expectations, as the latest ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau highlights Kamala Harris presidential defeat as an attack on women’s progress
By Nick Murray, The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack, pointing to the recent defeat of U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris as an example. Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation – an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics – Trudeau ... Read More »
2 responsesMPs approve $21.6B in supplementary spending; Conservatives vote against
By Nick Murray, The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
OTTAWA – MPs have voted to approve an additional $21.6 billion in government spending. The money, which is supplementary to this year’s federal budget, will fund various programs including First Nations child services, dental care and compensation to Quebec for services to asylum seekers. Conservative MPs did not support the additional spending in a vote ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: MPs approve $21.6B in supplementary spending
By The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
OTTAWA – MPs have voted to approve an additional $21.6 billion in government spending. The money, which is supplementary to this year’s federal budget, will fund various programs including First Nations child services, dental care and compensation to Quebec for services to asylum seekers. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Union in B.C. port dispute seeks judicial review of federal back-to-work order
By The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
VANCOUVER – The union representing British Columbia port supervisors in a dispute with their employers has applied for a judicial review of federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon’s decision last month to order them back to work. In an application dated Dec. 3, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 says it is seeking to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Are they going to walk away?’: Charges 10 years after B.C.’s Mount Polley disaster
By Nono Shen and Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
Doug Watt won’t forget the sound of a tailings pond collapsing at the Mount Polley Mine more than 10 years ago, sending millions of cubic metres of waste into waterways in the British Columbia Interior. “I went outside, and you could hear the roar. It was like standing close to Niagara Falls,” the 74-year-old said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ex-minister cites ‘threat to security’ for denying emergency passport to Abdelrazik
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
OTTAWA – Former foreign minister Lawrence Cannon says he denied an emergency passport to Abousfian Abdelrazik in 2009 because he considered the Montreal man a possible threat to national security. Cannon told a Federal Court hearing today he did not want Abdelrazik to return to Canada from Sudan and “put any Canadians in jeopardy.” The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton receives Nobel Prize in physics in proud moment for U of T
By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
TORONTO – When Geoffrey Hinton strode across the Stockholm Concert Hall stage Tuesday to receive his Nobel Prize for physics from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, he was beaming. It has taken decades for many beyond the science community to realize the British Canadian computer scientist’s life’s work was so significant it eventually formed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Summer wildfire that hit Jasper, Alta., tops Environment Canada 2024 weather list
By Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press on December 10th, 2024
A wildfire that left a third of a popular Rocky Mountain tourist town in ashes is Environment Canada’s most impactful weather story of 2024. The weather agency released Tuesday its annual top 10 list of the country’s most impactful weather stories, ranked by severity, human and economic impact, the extent of the area affected, and ... Read More »
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