Unpublished Newswire
City councillors across British Columbia will be looking for answers at their annual convention next week to the question of what the province’s electioneering politicians say they will do to improve the addiction, homelessness, public disorder, and mental health crises in their municipalities.Those issues are among the top preoccupations of the 2,000 delegates to the Union of BC Municipalities – worries that show up in almost a dozen resolutions put forward by cities asking for better solutions. The same concerns are likely to be a big part of the current provincial election campaign...
September 14, 2024 - 09:00 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
A 47-year-old Kingston man has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder after three people were attacked Thursday morning near the Montreal Street encampment. Read More
September 14, 2024 - 08:31 | pdtechintegration automation account | Ottawa Citizen
The summer saw several seismic shifts that mean the government will now operate as a true minority that could fall to an election at any time.
September 14, 2024 - 08:19 | | Global News - Canada
The main contenders in the approaching British Columbia election have been skirmishing over, of all things, road tolls.A couple of weeks ago, Premier David Eby, who hopes to get a fresh mandate for the province’s NDP government on Oct. 19, stood next to the massive, 10-lane Port Mann Bridge that spans the Fraser River. He was there to remind voters that the NDP removed the tolls on the bridge in 2017. The Premier claimed his opponent, John Rustad of the Conservatives, would bring them back. In 2017, after all, Mr. Rustad had said that removing the tolls was a “huge slap in the face” for...
September 14, 2024 - 08:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
Labour talks between Air Canada and its pilots are approaching a midnight deadline, when either side could trigger the start of a shutdown for Canada’s largest airline.After more than 14 months of negotiations, starting Sunday the two sides will be in a position to provide 72-hour notice of a strike or lockout that could disrupt travel for the more than 100,000 passengers who fly the airline daily.
September 14, 2024 - 07:34 | | The Globe and Mail
The woman's partner even volunteered to donate some of his own liver, but that operation was also denied. Advocates say these rules are killing people
September 14, 2024 - 07:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post
