Politics·New Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed two new senators on Thursday — Allister Surette for Nova Scotia and Nancy Karetak-Lindell for Nunavut. Both appointees have previous Liberal ties and experience in electoral politics CBC News · Posted: Dec 19, 2024 2:53 PM EST | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago Nancy Uqquujuq Karetak-Lindell, former member of…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canada and the United States should work together to counter China, rather than engage in a damaging trade war — and has a message for Mexico to join them. Speaking to CNN Monday night, Ford said cutting off energy exports to the U.S. remained “a tool that we have in…
More than a year after a well-known restaurateur in Owen Sound, Ont., was killed in a dine-and-dash that rocked the community, police have charged three men from the United Kingdom. Robert Evans, 24, has been charged with manslaughter and Robert Busby Evans, 47, and Barry Evans, 54, have been charged with accessory after the fact in the…
A house fire Tuesday morning has left one person dead in Regina’s east end. Source link
A group of Hamilton residents who’ve lived in encampments are taking the city to court over its ban of tents in parks, arguing their Charter rights were violated. The hearing began Monday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and will last three days. The 14 applicants seek a total of $445,000 from the city for…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Just hours after Chrystia Freeland resigned from cabinet, a new finance minister is set to be sworn in, sources tell Global News. Three sources told Global News there would be a swearing in at Rideau Hall at 4 p.m. Eastern. Earlier on Monday, Freeland advised Trudeau in…
Former Xatsull First Nation chief Bev Sellars recalls an emergency meeting after the Mount Polley Mine disaster, where elders were in tears as they thought of fish swimming through the toxic waste that had inundated their territorial waters. She thinks of the 2014 disaster often. “There are physical changes you can still see,” Sellars said….
As the federal government looks to drastically reduce its immigration targets over the next few years, the mayors of northern Ontario’s largest cities say they need more immigrants to sustain local economies and population. The mayors of Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay and Sudbury are calling on Ottawa to deliver on its promise to make…
The Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99) has reopened between Lions Bay and Brunswick Beach, B.C., after a landslide Saturday that officials say swept one home off its foundations. DriveBC reported the road connecting Vancouver to Whistler, B.C., reopened in both directions around 5 a.m. PT Sunday morning, ahead of an estimated reopening at 9 a.m. PT. Emergency officials…
With a baby on her back, Zawadi Maringa came in quietly to the Utange Field Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, in early November. She had heard about a cleft lip and palate camp offering surgery free of charge by a Canadian medical team called Operation Rainbow Canada. But the help she needed wasn’t for her child….
