Liberals, NDP leadership have tentative deal to support Trudeau government to 2025
The leadership of the Liberals and the NDP have reached a tentative agreement that would see the NDP support the Liberal government to keep it in power until 2025 in exchange for a commitment to act on key NDP priorities, CBC News has learned. The so-called confidence-and-supply agreement still needs the support of NDP MPs who […]
4 covid19 deaths, 231 new cases
News Paula Lindo 2 Hrs Ago Four deaths linked to covid19 were reported on Monday, bringing the death toll to 3,716. The number of new cases reported from samples taken between Friday and Sunday was 231. The Health Ministry recorded over 312 recovered community cases on Monday. This brought the number of active positive cases […]
Police training in domestic violence scrapped for years before veteran’s murder-suicide: inquiry
The provincial fatality inquiry examining why an Afghanistan veteran killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Monday that Nova Scotia police officers had limited intimate partner violence training in the seven years before the murder-suicides. Sharon Flanagan, senior adviser on policing and public safety with the Justice Department, testified there were few training courses […]
Privy Council hears challenge to covid19 public health regulations
News Jada Loutoo 23 Minutes Ago Anand Ramlogan – FIVE Privy Council judges will on Wednesday resume hearing submissions in two legal challenges against the Government’s public health regulations for covid19. On Monday, Lords Reed, Briggs, Sales, Hamblen and Lady Rose began hearing submissions in the matter involving five men who were arrested at Alicia’s […]
Canada wants WHO approval for Medicago COVID-19 vaccine so it can be donated: Sajjan
International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says he wants the World Health Organization to greenlight Medicago’s COVID-19 shot so it can be donated and used by the COVAX vaccine-sharing alliance. But he says Canada’s ability to get more doses out the door to lower-income countries depends mostly on getting reassurance they can and will be used […]
West Indies selectors keep faith with 13-man squad for final Test
Sports Joel Bailey 24 Minutes Ago West Indies’ John Campbell bats against England during day five of their second Test match at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Sunday. (AP PHOTO) – THE CRICKET West Indies selection panel, comprising lead selector Desmond Haynes, Ramnaresh Sarwan and coach Phil Simmons have kept faith with the […]
How the pandemic has robbed me of a full high school experience
This First Person article is the experience of Andie Lawrence, a Grade 11 student in Fernie, B.C. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. For seven hours a day, five days a week, I sit at the same desk staring at the lime green walls of my classroom. To manage COVID-19 exposures, […]
Man shot dead in El Socorro
News Shane Superville 2 Hrs Ago File photo POLICE are trying to establish a motive for the murder of a 32-year-old man on Sunday afternoon. Kevon Williams aka “Reddo,” was with a woman at the corner of Bhim Bhim Trace and Boundary Road, El Socorro, at around 2.45 pm when a man wearing in a […]
‘I don’t wish it on my worst enemy’: Calgarians detail life with an electricity load limiter
Josie Gagne was stumbling in the dark, sobbing while on the phone with an Enmax customer assistant, as she tried to locate the tiny orange button under the utility meter that would restore heat inside. It was the shock that got her. The young single mother with two kids under two returned home one winter day last year to find […]
Five inmates escape Golden Grove prison, one recaptured
News Shane Superville 6 Minutes Ago Anthony Seepersad. – TTPS A manhunt is underway for four inmates of the Golden Grove prison, Arouca, after they escaped custody on Sunday night. Theon Thomas. – TTPS Police said the men, Kurien Douglas, 26, Theon Thomas, 23, Anthony Seepersad, 28, Shaquille Drayton, 30 and Kevin Jagdeo, 32, got […]
OHL Milestone Moments: March 21st, 2022
First career goals from Ottawa’s Steven Laforme, Owen Sound’s Taos Jordan and Barrie’s Grayson Tiller, as well as first career shutouts from Soo’s Tucker Tynan and Sarnia’s Anson Thornton headline the latest edition of OHL Milestone Moments.
After Bridgewater was defrauded out of nearly $500K, it took Scotiabank to court
A Nova Scotia town had to get a court order and spent almost eight months trying to recoup nearly half a million dollars it had been defrauded out of by an Ontario man posing as a construction executive, a situation municipal officials say won’t happen again because of stronger internal controls. Those are some of the […]