“We’re reviewing the data. We’re talking to scientists all the time. We are talking to premiers across the country constantly looking to see if there’s more we should be doing,” Freeland said in an interview that aired Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live.
Conservative Party of Canada leader Erin O’Toole has proposed a climate change plan he says will meet Canada’s Paris agreement commitments without killing jobs. Yet one week after announcing it, Justin Trudeau increased Canada’s emissions targets and the media is already asking O’Toole why his plan doesn’t go further. True North’s Andrew Lawton says this is proof the Conservatives will never win by playing on the left’s turf.
According to Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Michael Geist, the Liberal government is now planning on adding streaming apps to the scope of the proposed Bill C-10, bringing them under CRTC regulation.
In a statement released Saturday morning, the premier called the discovery of the B.1.617 variant “extremely troubling.”
Frank Stronach, founder of the international automotive parts company Magna International, is in the process of developing the “Sarit,” an electric single-seat vehicle with three wheels that’s small enough to take advantage of city bike lanes.
“My tweet yesterday regarding the freedom of Ontarian’s was to give a timeline only. In no way was I comparing today with the atrocities of war,” Sweet wrote on Twitter.
Nearly half of Canada’s land mass lies above permafrost. As it thaws, greenhouse gases stored for centuries in the frozen ground are released and once-stable land is susceptible to collapse.
“We have more pregnant women in ICUs than any time in the country or this province,” said Dr. Mark Walker, a high-risk obstetrician and epidemiologist in Ottawa. “The situation is urgent for pregnant individuals to get the vaccine.”
Someone who doesn’t know much about a topic can at least have the awareness to realize they are ignorant and can listen to those who are wiser. Hajdu doesn’t even seem capable of that.
A string of femicides that has claimed 10 victims so far this year led the Legault government to announce it will provide $92 million over five years for women’s shelters across the province.
The announcement was made Friday by Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault and Status of Women Minister Isabelle Charest during a virtual press conference.
Hospitals in the province are required to halt all non-emergent surgeries and non-urgent procedures immediately as people with COVID-19 continue to fill up hospitals and put the healthcare system under strain amid the third wave.
Quebec has identified its first case of the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 that originated in India and is believed to be fuelling the pandemic surge in that country.
The case was identified in a patient in the Mauricie region, north of Trois-Rivières, officials with the Institut national de la santé du Québec (INSPQ) confirmed Wednesday.
There is no such thing as a ‘double mutant’. This is shameless fearmongering.
Police in Ontario say the province has given them the power to ID anyone gathering in public – even if they are children.
“If [police] see something like that going on,” Peel Regional Police spokeswoman Const. Danny Marttini said of gatherings, “they would ask to identify all parties that are participating.”
Trudeau said Canada will reduce emissions by 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 — a target much lower than the one first pitched by the former Conservative government and agreed to by former environment minister Catherine McKenna at the Paris climate talks in 2015.
Canada’s pace of vaccine roll-out is improving, but data reporting on excess deaths – perhaps the most important pandemic performance metric – is months behind almost every other country in our COVID Misery Index.
