Greg Rickford, the minister in charge of the file, announced Tuesday that the new approach will mean the government can address specific community needs and opportunities with First Nation communities.
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Cities urge federal leaders to wade into wastewater debate | CBC News
In Canada’s largest city, raw sewage flows into Lake Ontario so
often, Toronto tells people they should never swim off the city’s
beaches for least two days after it rains.
often, Toronto tells people they should never swim off the city’s
beaches for least two days after it rains.
Across the country in
Mission, B.C., a three-decade-old pipe that carries sewage under the
Fraser River to a treatment plant in Abbotsford is so loaded operators
can’t even slip a camera inside it to look for damage. If that pipe
bursts, it will dump 11 million litres of putrid water from area homes
and businesses into a critical salmon habitat every day it isn’t fixed.
While
climate change is dominating the environmental conversations leading
into the federal election campaign, politicians who show plans to stop
the dumping of toxic, feces-laden sludge into Canada’s waterways will be
very welcome, particularly by the municipal governments for whom the
problem is a daily fight.
‘Outrageously expensive’: New drug approval will cost Ontario family 100K per year | CBC News
Olivia
Little needs eye drops every hour to help treat her Cystinosis, an
ultra-rare genetic disease that causes crystals to build up in the eyes
and impacts various organs.
Little needs eye drops every hour to help treat her Cystinosis, an
ultra-rare genetic disease that causes crystals to build up in the eyes
and impacts various organs.
The
Little family has been paying an estimated $5,000 per year for the
drug, which Olivia has been on since she was diagnosed at 18 months.
The
family was left scrambling after Health Canada approved an official
version of the drug, which is slated to sell for more than $100,000 per
year.
Scheer faces backlash from national anti-abortion group over mixed messaging | CBC News
Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life
Coalition’s director of political operations, said Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer’s news conference Thursday delivered more of the “vague
and contradictory” answers on abortion that he gave during the 2017
Conservative leadership campaign.
Coalition’s director of political operations, said Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer’s news conference Thursday delivered more of the “vague
and contradictory” answers on abortion that he gave during the 2017
Conservative leadership campaign.
Fonseca pointed
out that Scheer said that he would respect the democratic right of
backbench MPs to bring forward issues important to them — but also said
he would oppose measures or attempts to open the abortion debate.
Talk of affordability conceals real problem — capture of wealth by the rich | rabble.ca
Why do I hate it? Because it conceals the stasis or fallback of the last 40 years and the failure of neoliberalism to deliver even a sustained status quo. People can’t afford houses, cars, child care, though they’re employed and the stats say things are good. Slavery delivered full employment, too. “Affordability” conceals all that and makes it sound like a neutral description, as if the problem belongs to the houses or cars of tuition fees. They lack the element of affordability, the way walls in old houses might contain asbestos that simply has to be removed, because it and the harm it inflicts was only recently discovered.
Am I paranoid? Ideological? Listen, a study reported here this week, found that the 90 companies on the TSX that still have defined benefit pension plans, underfunded those by $12 billion in 2017, while paying out $66 billion to shareholders in dividends. They stiffed their workers and stuffed owners by 5-1.
But it’s even more scabrous…