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Ottawa to force banks to call carbon rebate a carbon rebate in direct deposits
OTTAWA — Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Guilbeault is taking the stand after Tuesday's federal budget promised to amend the Financial Administration Act so government payments accepted for deposit at Canadian banks will carry whatever title the government wants. "The fact that they haven't been doing it now for many years led u
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Anglers lament lack of parking at boat launches
Fishing charter captain Jon Bondy says he sometimes has to get up at 3 a.m. to get a good parking spot at the LaSalle Landing park on LaSalle's waterfront if he wants to launch his boat there.He says the municipality does not have enough parking spots to accommodate all the hundreds of walleye anglers who descend on the area this time of year."If you go to Sandusky, Ohio, you go to Michigan and you look at their facilities, they're booming. There's plenty of parking and this county has done an e
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City of Windsor joins London, Hamilton in "F" grades in fiscal transparency
If you've felt like municipal finances were a bit hard to follow, it's not just you: According to a new report from an independent think tank, the City of Windsor gets a "F" grade on financial and fiscal transparency.But the City of Windsor's treasurer says she takes issue with the failing score and the way it was determined. The report from the C.D. Howe Institute, released Thursday, looks at the financial transparency of 32 major Canadian municipalities. Windsor, along with Hamilton, Ont. and
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Plan to revamp downtown Ottawa block sparks debate over intensification
Kevin Gosselin is one of the residents of 178 Nepean who says he won't leave despite being asked to do so by the building's owner, which wants to redevelop the area with a roughly nine-storey residential tower with retail space on the ground floor. The project has not been approved by city councillors. (Guy Quenneville/CBC)A proposed redevelopment of a downtown Ottawa block is sparking a debate over the merits of intensification, with tenants feeling pushed to the side and the owner saying the p
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'We've been where they've been': People with lived addiction experience key in aiding Thunder Bay's vulnerable
When Nicole Lukas-Mckenzie tells her clients she knows what they're going through, she means it.At People Advocating for Change for Empowerment (PACE), a drop-in centre on Thunder Bay, Ont.'s south side, she sees people experiencing homelessness, addiction and the stigma that comes with facing complex social challenges."I was in active addiction for 12 years and I got sober. I've been 16 months sober now and I really, really would have loved a place like PACE to come to when I was in active addi
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Toronto looks to expand tree canopy with planting on private land
As the city of Toronto works to build more housing, it faces another challenge too: less space for trees, which the city is trying to plant in large numbers to improve air quality, reduce storm water runoff and cool city streets as summers heat up. The city says it wants to increase its tree canopy — the amount of city streets shaded by trees — to cover 40 per cent of Toronto by 2050. As of a 2018 city review, the canopy covered about 30 per cent. To do so, it aims to plant about 120,000 trees a
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Bigger boats, more nets, people arrive in Zeballos, B.C., for new orca rescue attempt
ZEBALLOS, B.C. — A large seine fishing vessel capable of casting a net strong enough to hold a nearly 700-kilogram killer whale calf has arrived in Zeballos, B.C., to participate in the latest attempt to rescue the young orca stranded in a remote tidal lagoon. The flat-bottom aluminum vessel has a built-in crane-like device for lifting heavy nets, and it's expected to be deployed as part of a rescue effort that could happen any day now in the lagoon on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. Th
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