Firefighters and provincial police were sent to a fire at a landfill site Saturday morning in O'Connor Township. Though details weren't immediately available on Monday, O'Connor fire Chief Greg Biloski confirmed his department went to the scene, which was reported around 10:30 a.m. A regional OPP spokeswoman referred news media inquiries to fire officials.
Carl Clutchey, Local Journalism Initiative reporter, The Chronicle-Journal
"Let me be clear, I'm running for reelection and will win this November," Cuellar said in a statement affirming his innocence.
OTTAWA — Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader — and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — during a heated debate Tuesday. The Tories say Fergus did not apply the rules equally during a tense back and forth between Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre was kicked out of the chamber after he called Trudeau a "wacko prime minister" and refused Fergus's request to withdraw the remark. His entire caucus eventually left as
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) ordered the state on Thursday to defy new changes to Title IX that add protections for transgender students. Sanders, the onetime press secretary to former President Trump, is the latest in a growing coalition of Republican governors to explicitly reject the Biden administration’s update to the federal civil rights…
TORONTO — Ontario is set to clamp down on bad employers with big fines. Labour Minister David Piccini says his government will introduce legislation next week that will see fines increased for violations of the Employment Standards Act. Piccini says he is sending a message to "bad actor" employers there will be more severe consequences for exploiting workers. They are looking to stamp out organizations that fail to pay wages, penalize employees for taking pregnancy or parental leave, and have un
It's hard to get 260 Alberta municipal governments to agree on much, which is why their blanket organization seldom has anything provocative to say.What advocacy points can members as disparate as Calgary, Lethbridge, the town of Two Hills and the villages of Czar, Barons and Bawlf agree on? Safer fare, typically — suggestions that the province should consult more widely, or provide predictable funding for infrastructure, and more of it.This is why it's worth noting when the leader of Alberta Mu
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Wednesday ended any speculation his party would pull out of its deal with the minority Liberal government by finally agreeing to support the government's budget. Singh said his party wanted time to digest the document, which was tabled April 16, but is ultimately voting in favour of it because of shared initiatives that it proposes. That includes creating a national school lunch program and providing free birth control and diabetes medicine for anyone with a
Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative candidates have won both Ontario byelections. Progressive Conservative candidate Zee Hamid is holding a nine percentage point lead on Liberal Galen Naidoo Harris with more than 90 percent of polls reporting in Milton, just west of Mississauga Fellow PC candidate Steve Pinsonneault has drawn 56 per cent of the votes with 90 per cent of the polls reporting in the Tory stronghold of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex. Milton has been vacant since cabinet minister Pa
OTTAWA — A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel their right to freedom of speech is in danger. The Leger online survey found 57 per cent of respondents who said free speech in Canada is under threat. Of those, 34 per cent said it was "somewhat" threatened, while 23 per cent said they consider the threat a serious one. Some 36 per cent said their free-speech rights were in no danger, while seven per cent said they didn't know or did not answer. Three out of four respondents — 76 per cen
PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a bill Thursday to repeal it. Hobbs says the move is just the beginning of a fight to protect reproductive health care in Arizona. The repeal of the 1864 law that the state Supreme Court recently reinstated won't take effect until 90 days after the legislative session ends, which typically happens in June or July. Abortion rights advocates say they're hopeful a court will
GATINEAU, Que. — The federal government is planning to create a new agent of Parliament to oversee modern treaty implementation, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will ensure Ottawa is held to account no matter who is in power. He announced the plan to appoint a commissioner for modern treaty implementation Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., at a second annual meeting of self-governing Indigenous governments. "This is a lasting commitment to be a better treaty partner," he said. "To honour our ag
VANCOUVER — A lawyer for B.C.'s Public Safety Ministry says the City of Surrey is seeking a "radical expansion" of freedom-of-expression protections under Canada's Charter in its legal dispute with the province over policing in the city. The city says a provincial law change compelling it to switch to a municipal police force had the "express purpose" of nullifying the election mandate the city council received, and thus infringed on voters' freedom of expression. But Trevor Bant, a lawyer for t
Just over a month into the new fiscal year and two weeks after the federal budget, the Department of National Defence is struggling to reconcile the Liberal government's approach to military funding — giving with one hand while taking with the other. Gen. Wayne Eyre, the country's top military commander, told the rank-and-file in a remote town hall event last week that he doesn't have answers to crucial questions about how internal budget cuts and funding reallocation square with promises of add
OTTAWA — Unions representing public servants say they are blindsided and outraged by new rules forcing federal employees to work from the office at least three days a week. The new requirements, which take effect Sept. 9, also stipulate executives will have to be in the office at least four days a week. The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it will be filing an unfair labour practice complaint and looking into other legal options. "PSAC members are incredibly frustrated and angered by this
Expert suggested bug fix which would alter data without branch knowing, but told court that was impossible.
The U.S. has been preparing since 2022 for the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin would stop selling it nuclear power fuel, and a pending ban on Russian imports will help boost domestic capacity to process uranium fuel, the outgoing top nuclear energy official told Reuters. The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that bans the imports from Russia, the latest move by Washington to disrupt Putin's ability to pay for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022. The ban, which is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden, starts 90 days after enactment, although it allows the Department of Energy to issue waivers in case of supply concerns.
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OTTAWA — Environmental groups say the Liberal government is giving up its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through proposed amendments to the federal Impact Assessment Act. "We are concerned that the government is not fully living up to its responsibility to protect Canadians and the environment from the climate impacts of major projects," the groups wrote Wednesday in a letter to cabinet. The changes, which are included in the government's legislation to implement the 2024 budget,
House Republicans and Democrats have released two dueling visions for the farm bill, the massive $1.5 trillion omnibus that underpins the U.S. food system. The contrasting proposals show the fault lines between the two parties’ visions for American agriculture as it is beset by rising supply costs and climate change. But despite these divisions, there…
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Bill Blair says it's hard to convince cabinet and Canadians that meeting the NATO spending target is a worthy goal, because "nobody knows what that means." Instead, he said Wednesday, he's tried to argue that Canada must do more to defend itself — and that will require more money. All NATO allies have agreed to spend at least two per cent of GDP on defence. Canada's defence spending amounted to 1.33 per cent in 2023, according to the alliance's estimates. Speaking at a
The new complaint comes just days after the Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint of ethical misconduct against House Speaker Dean Plocher amid a slew of scandals.
