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April 24, 2025 - 20:00 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A former Alberta cabinet minister says an investigation called by Premier Danielle Smith’s government into multimillion-dollar health contracts looks like a whitewashing exercise.Peter Guthrie, now an Independent member of the legislature, posted a letter Wednesday afternoon, saying that, among other problems, the terms of a third-party probe by a former Manitoba judge are so narrow that it will be tough to get to the heart of what happened.Guthrie said the United Conservative government is only hurting itself since the investigation by former Manitoba judge Raymond Wyant is unlikely to...
April 24, 2025 - 19:55 | Lisa Johnson | The Globe and Mail
The City of Calgary collected $240 million in municipal development fees last year, which is the equivalent to an additional 10 per cent property tax increase if the fees are cut.
April 24, 2025 - 19:52 | Adam MacVicar | Global News - Canada
For the first time this campaign, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a stop in Nova Scotia on Thursday — the second province he's visited led by a Progressive Conservative premier conspicuously absent from the federal party's events.
April 24, 2025 - 19:36 | | CBC News - Canada
A commercial kitchen company pleaded guilty Thursday to four bylaw offences after a massive E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares led to hundreds of children falling ill.Fueling Minds Inc. was charged after the eight-week outbreak that was declared in September 2023.There were at least 448 infections, and 39 children and one adult were hospitalized because of severe illness.
April 24, 2025 - 19:33 | Bill Graveland | The Globe and Mail
A Newfoundland town is looking for answers after a life-size statue of pioneering American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared from a municipal park on Thursday.Don Coombs, mayor of Harbour Grace, N.L., said he was getting ready for a day of meetings when a town staff member called early in the morning to say the cherished bronze statue commemorating Earhart’s successful transatlantic flight was gone.When he got to the park to see for himself, all that remained was the stone platform upon which she had stood and the bolts that had held her in place.
April 24, 2025 - 19:25 | Sarah Smellie | The Globe and Mail
