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Federal government withdraws offer of 17 Alberta family court judges when province won't meet terms
The Alberta government says it won't revamp its court system to get federal funding for 17 judges dedicated to hearing family court cases.Ottawa now says that $10.9 million a year set aside for those Alberta family court judges is off the table and will be spent in superior court appointments across the country."It's profoundly disappointing that they offered those with a number of conditions attached to them," Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery said in a Wednesday interview. "Those condition
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Union calls for better training, support after assault reported at Saskatoon library
Police say two teenage girls assaulted an employee Monday at the Carlyle King Library on Laurier Drive in Saskatoon. Officers responded to the library just before 9 p.m. CST and found that the teens had fled the scene, police say. Officers located the suspects at a bus mall in the 300 block of Confederation Drive.Two girls aged 14 and 16 were charged with assault. Police say they believe the girls were intoxicated when they did the assault.Kent Peterson, president of the Canadian Union of Public
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Tabusintac fishermen fight for dredging to clear 'dangerous channel'
On a cloudy April afternoon, Weldon Harding is scanning the waters of Tabusintac Bay, in northeastern New Brunswick, from the back of a lobster fishing boat. He points out a long sandbar, indicating the start of a shallow channel to enter and exit the harbour."It's narrow, it's shallow and if you come in and it's rough, you hit the bottom and the next wave takes you and sinks you."As the boat passes near the gully at high tide, water levels on the marine depth sounder dip to just above one-and-a
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Temporary housing for homeless people at Shannon Park? Ottawa says it will pitch in
Ottawa is calling for a 34-hectare parcel of federal land sitting vacant in Dartmouth, N.S., to be used for temporary modular housing as the number of people experiencing homelessness continues to rise.The Halifax Regional Municipality approved a permanent housing development last year in Shannon Park, but construction has yet to begin on that project. Ottawa says the property could serve a different purpose in the meantime.The land, at the foot of the MacKay Bridge in Dartmouth, used to be home
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Province paid more than $2.5M for travel nurses to work long-term care homes
Travel nurses brought in to work in long-term care in 2022 earned two-to-three times more than their New Brunswick-based colleagues, the province says.Minister of Social Development Jill Green told a legislative committee Thursday that long-term care homes were in an emergency situation at the time the department signed contracts totalling just over $2.5 million with two private companies. Toronto-based Canadian Health Labs received almost all of that money to provide 55 staff, from February to
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New Peggys Cove bylaw brought in amidst complaints of unfairness
Peggys Cove now has a new bylaw to guide development and protect the iconic fishing village's heritage, but some say the process to create those rules was unfair.After more than two years of consultation and five different drafts, this week the province approved a new land-use bylaw that will replace one from 2003.It aims to preserve the "authentic, traditional fishing village" spirit of the cove, while allowing commercial uses where residents can benefit financially from the thousands of touris
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Here's the latest for Friday April 19th: Iran fires air defense system amid tensions with Israel; House could vote on foreign aid this weekend; More Trump jury selection; 15 members of Kennedy family endorse Biden.
