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New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote told Canada's National Observer that there appeared to be a “clear intent” from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that a portion of the new federal funding commitment would go toward municipal needs like transit.

“Right now it’s clear in the pandemic that the policies of the Green Party are the policies everyone’s talking about," said Elizabeth May.

Singh invoked the memories of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, whose family has raised concerns about police involvement in her death in Toronto in May, and Stewart Kevin Andrews, an Indigenous man killed by police in Winnipeg in April, to make a point about how Black and Indigenous people have suffered violence or death at the hands of Canadian police.

Parents in British Columbia have the option of sending their kids back to elementary schools part-time, as part of new re-opening measures that kicked in June 1.

The Public Health Agency of Canada began recommending against cruise-ship travel as far back as March 9.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments came after the Chinese Embassy expressed its “firm opposition” to the Meng ruling and accused Canada of acting as an “accomplice” of the United States, urging the nation “not to go further down the wrong path.” 

The 23-page ruling avoids the larger question of the Crown’s allegations of fraud connected with the Chinese tech giant executive. 

Canada Post will allocate up to $500,000 to a committee that will look at how rural post offices in places like the B.C. islands could offer services such as money transfers or cashing government cheques.

The Vancouver Airport Authority, one of only four airports that does qualify, according to the Canadian Airports Council, won't be taking advantage of the program "at this time," it confirmed to National Observer.

Airports were singled out multiple times by government sources on Wednesday as Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveiled the details of the federal Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility.

A rundown of the different ways Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia are opening up.

For businesses in the tourism and hospitality industry, the uncertainty over when the border will reopen is making it hard to plan for the future.

“Who are we to believe? The law? Different authorities’ different interpretations of the law?" wondered a vice-president of the BC Wildlife Federation.

Democracy Watch had called on Butcher to reverse his decision, arguing he had “exaggerated” the RCMP's own conclusions about its investigation.

Clear-cutting old-growth forests to produce wood pellets to replace fossil fuels in electricity generation would release more carbon into the atmosphere than it would save “for many decades,” according to a new scientific study.