Quebec’s ombudsman published the first update on the commission and found that less than a third of the calls to action have been implemented. 1st update on commission published Wednesday Nearly four years after Quebec's Viens report documented the mistreatment of Indigenous people, less than a third of the calls …
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Romualdez: Due legislative processes followed in crafting Maharlika fund law
SPEAKER Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said they followed due legislative processes in crafting the Maharlika Investment Fund Act. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Romualdez expressed respect for the Supreme Court's directive for the Executive branch and Congress to respond to the petition against the law and said the House will …
Read More »B.C. RCMP to hold regimental funeral Wednesday for officer killed in Coquitlam
The funeral is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. PT at the Langley Events Centre. It will include a procession and a memorial service concluding with a final salute. Const. Rick O'Brien was shot dead while executing a drug-related search warrant at a home The RCMP are holding a …
Read More »RCMP holds regimental funeral for officer killed in Coquitlam, B.C.
The funeral is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. PT at the Langley Events Centre. It will include a procession and a memorial service concluding with a final salute. Const. Rick O'Brien was shot dead while executing a drug-related search warrant at a home The RCMP are holding a …
Read More »Accountability in Greenbelt controversy leads back to Premier Doug Ford, political experts say
One political observer says Ontario's premier is likely to survive the recent Greenbelt scandal since he's apologized and reversed course, but political scientists and a former Liberal cabinet minister say the responsibility for initiating the policy and allowing it through cabinet still lies with him. Premiers have 'ultimate control' over …
Read More »Blair steals a page from the Harper playbook to justify cuts to National Defence
For years when it was in power, the former Conservative government railed against a great, faceless bureaucracy it blamed for undermining its goals for the Department of National Defence (DND). That tactic appears to have been adopted by the current Liberal defence minister as he explains the government’s intention to …
Read More »As traffic in Wales slows with new speed limit, critics say symbolic red dragon replaced by a snail
Wales, one of four countries that make up the United Kingdom, has become the first to drop the speed limit from 30 mph to 20 mph, or roughly 32 km/h, in most built-up areas to improve safety — leading to an intense backlash from critics, who say traffic is moving …
Read More »Solid NDP win cements Kinew as 1st First Nations premier in Manitoba history
The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday night with a solid win that cements leader Wab Kinew as Manitoba's first First Nations premier and also nets the party enough seats to form a majority government. New Democrats emerge with enough seats to form majority government The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday …
Read More »Trump hit with gag order after lashing out at court clerk
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud trial on Tuesday imposed a gag order — promising sanctions for any violations — on the former U.S. president and others in the case after Trump took to social media to lash out at the judge's top law clerk. Former U.S. president's disparaging …
Read More »Jurors learn what a forensic examiner found in laptop of accused killer of a London, Ont., Muslim family
Inside the laptop found in the small apartment of a man accused of killing a Muslim family in London, a digital forensic investigator found an early version of a manifesto and a video of someone shooting two people, jurors at his trial in an Ontario court in Windsor heard Tuesday. …
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