Northern Pulp’s union meets with N.S. premier, touts mill’s economic importance
The mill’s parent company has warned the mill will be shut down unless it can dump millions of litres of waste water directly into the Northumberland Strait.
Atlantic Canada goes from stronghold to point of vulnerability for Liberals | CBC News
Atlantic Canada was where the first domino of the SNC-Lavalin affair toppled in public — when Nova Scotia cabinet minister Scott Brison decided to resign his post. It’s also where the Liberals have taken the biggest hit from the scandal’s fallout.
What was once the party’s most formidable electoral stronghold has now become one of its key regions of vulnerability.
According to the testimony of Gerald Butts, the prime minister’s former principal secretary, the plan to replace Brison as president of the Treasury Board was supposed to be simple and tidy. Jane Philpott would go from Indigenous Services to Treasury Board and Jody Wilson-Raybould would take Philpott’s place. David Lametti would be promoted into the justice portfolio vacated by Wilson-Raybould.
It didn’t quite work out as planned.
Treaty 8 chiefs criticize UCP Indigenous Platform
Edmonton, Alberta – April 2, 2019 – With the election in Alberta looming, the parties have released and are promoting the various policies they plan to implement if they get the go ahead from voters in Alberta. Chiefs, Elders and First Nations are in for quite a surprise when they go and look at the Policy Declaration from the United Conservative Party regarding Indigenous policy. Not only is it brief, coming it at 3 statements, but those statements aren’t exactly hitting the right note with First Nations.
“Not only is it unbelievably short, but the very first statement seems geared to draw anger out of First Nations within Treaty 8 [Alberta],” states Arthur Noskey, Grand Chief of Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta.
The statement the Grand Chief is referring to is directly from the UCP Policy Declaration which states “the UCP is committed to the ultimate goal of treating and recognizing all Albertans as equal under law.”
“This is completely insulting to First Nations and brings to my mind all those people who ask how come those Indians get government programs and that they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. This is a strange policy statement from the former federal Minister for dealing with Multiculturalism and one that ignores all the uniqueness that we have as the First Peoples of this land, the Treaty relationship with the Crown, and the statistically proven disadvantage our people face in Canada.” states the Grand Chief.
“Quite frankly, what makes this even worse is that we sat down with Jason Kenney and some UCP members and outlined our issues, I guess we didn’t even make a dent in their thinking.”
Facebook Says This Explicitly White Nationalist Video Doesn’t Break Its New Rule
Facebook vowed last week to curb hateful content on its platform by extending its policies against white supremacy to cover posts that praise white nationalism and separatism.
Now
it’s unclear what that new policy actually means, if anything. On
Tuesday, HuffPost showed a Facebook spokesperson a video on Facebook in
which prominent Canadian white nationalist Faith Goldy laments white
“replacement” and demands that Jews and people of color repay the white
European countries they’ve “invaded.”The spokesperson said that
no policy had been broken, not even the social media giant’s new policy
banning the promotion or praise of white nationalism.In a
much-discussed move last week, Facebook had issued a statement declaring
that its policies banning white supremacist ideology and hate groups
weren’t enough. The company said it would add “praise or support for
white nationalism and white separatism” to the list of things that
violate its terms of service, and noted that those rules would extend to
Instagram, which it owns.