Eby’s housing plan to deliver homes for people, not speculators
22 小时之前 · By BC NDP Communications. SURREY – David Eby was back in the Lower Mainland to highlight the clear choice for British Columbians on housing: Between his plan to deliver new middle-class homes or John Rustad’s plan to cancel measures to open up more homes for people and to give tax breaks to those who got rich off the housing crisis “After decades of wild speculation driving up costs and ...
Transparency and trust: How news consumers in Canada want AI …
2 天之前 · By Nicole Blanchett, Toronto Metropolitan University; Charles H. Davis, Toronto Metropolitan University; Mariia Sozoniuk, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Sibo Chen, Toronto Metropolitan University, The Conversation . When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and news production, Canadian news consumers want to know when, how and why AI is part of journalistic work.
Only the United States benefits from renegotiating the Canada-U.S ...
2024年9月30日 · By Blayne Haggart, Brock University, The Conversation. There is a ticking time bomb at the heart of the North American economy. And this is the year that it begins to detonate. Over the past several months, Canadian businesses and analysts have been pressuring the federal government to better prepare for the mandated renegotiation of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) that ...
Canada ’seriously’ considering high-speed rail link between …
2024年10月10日 · The federal government is seriously considering building the country’s first high-speed rail link between Quebec City and Toronto, says Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Ottawa announced plans back in 2021 to build what it called a high-frequency (HFR) rail corridor with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Laval and Quebec City.
Shooting a fly with an elephant gun: The Bloc’s ultimatum on …
6 天之前 · Thanks to a more precarious minority Parliament, the Bloc Québécois is flexing more policy muscle than it has in a while. It has laid out the conditions for its temporary willingness to support the minority Liberals, one of which would significantly increase key cash benefits paid to Canadian seniors.. The Bloc would like to see its draft bill C …
Fil-Can Rechie Valdez wins seat as member of Canada’s Parliament
2021年9月25日 · Rechie Valdez has reached a milestone, becoming the first Filipina-Canadian to be elected as Member of Parliament in Canada, after winning the Ontario riding of Mississauga-Streetsville. During her victory speech […]
Government of Canada lightens border measures as part of …
2022年2月28日 · Recent data indicates that the latest wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant has passed its peak in Canada. As provinces and territories adjust their public health measures, and […]
Indigenous women from Ecuador bring concerns on mining …
2024年10月4日 · Indigenous women from Ecuador are in Ottawa this week raising concerns a proposed free trade agreement could enable human rights abuses by Canadian mining companies operating on their ancestral lands. The delegation travelled thousands of kilometres from the rural reaches of the Ecuadorian ...
Airlines can be required to provide compensation for international ...
2024年10月5日 · Unanimous ruling dismisses appeal from airlines that said passenger protections violate international law The Supreme Court confirms that airlines can be required to compensate passengers for certain international flight disruptions ruling that Canada’s passenger protection regulations do not ...
Quebec (and Ottawa) fail victims of violence
2024年10月8日 · In 1980, victim compensation cost $7 million. By 2019, that amount had risen to more than $154 million. Quebec had been wanting to eliminate lifetime payments since 1992, when Ottawa ended cost-sharing with the provinces and territories. The federal program had aimed to encourage the introduction of victim-compensation programs across the ...