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'I'm alarmed': N.W.T. MLAs question minister on emergency plan updates
Some Northwest Territories MLAs grilled officials from the territory's municipal and community affairs department Wednesday on updates to its emergency plan. MLAs discussed the updates at a public ministerial briefing at the standing committee on accountability and oversight. The territorial government released updates to its emergency plan on Monday. That plan is meant to be a living document that describes the emergency management framework in the N.W.T. and the roles and responsibilities of d
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VideoBen-Gvir leaves synagogue in Jerusalem as protest held outside over hostages held in Gaza
Protesters calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza waited outside a synagogue in Jerusalem as far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was seen leaving it.
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Don't leave us out of UN plastic treaty talks, says Aamjiwnaang First Nation
OTTAWA — A First Nation in southern Ontario has a simple message for the delegates who are gathered in Ottawa this week to negotiate a treaty to curb plastic waste around the world: don't leave us out. Aamjiwnaang First Nation councillor Janelle Nahmabin says Indigenous Peoples are already on the front lines of dealing with the after-effects of plastic pollution. Leaving them out of the conversation only makes that harder, she said through tears Wednesday alongside a panel of her peers. Nahmabin
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Quebec liquor store employees walk off the job as two-day strike begins
MONTREAL — Some 5,000 Quebec liquor corporation workers walked off the job on Wednesday for a planned two-day strike amid contract negotiations with their employer. Their union — the Syndicat des employé(e)s de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ — confirmed at midnight on Facebook it was launching the strike after a lack of progress at the negotiating table. It says the two strike days are the first to be used under the union's 15-day strike mandate. The union said about 70 per cent of its members
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Police seeking person who vandalized Kensington footbridge with racist graffiti
The Kensington police department is looking for whoever left an anti-Black slur on a footbridge near the Confederation Trail in central Prince Edward Island. "This investigation is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence," the force said in a social media post Wednesday afternoon.Const. James Gotell said the Royal Canadian Legion reported the crime after a walker told the group about graffiti on a wooden bridge that links a legion park to the trail. "By the time that we arrived there
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Here's the latest for Wednesday, April 24: Biden signs aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan; Supreme Court hears arguments in Idaho abortion case; Columbia U. negotiating with pro-Palestinian protesters; Military horses run loose in London.
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Federal budget money will help N.L. homes get built faster, says deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Mount Pearl on Wednesday to tout housing funding in the federal budget. (Heather Gillis/CBC)Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says funding announcements made in the federal budget will get homes built faster — something Newfoundland and Labrador needs to do to meet current and future demand."We need supply, supply, supply," Freeland told reporters at the site of a new apartment complex in Mount Pearl on Wednesday. "This is our country's most p
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