iPolitics AM: Bernier, Sloan, Hillier to deliver anti-lockdown message By Kady O Malley. Published on Apr 15, 2021 6:01am The End The Lockdown caucus, which includes Maxime Bernier, Derek Sloan and Randy Hillier, will be on Parliament Hill today.
Canadians may soon get a sneak peek at how the Conservatives will vie for their votes during the next election when
Erin O’Toole hits the stage at a downtown Ottawa hotel later this morning for what the party or at least the advisory is billing as an “important policy announcement.” (11 AM)
At press time, there was no word either official or unofficial on exactly what that might involve, although the fact that O’Toole’s on-camera appearance will be preceded by a “background briefing suggests that it could include more details on one or more of the components in his recently released five-point “recovery plan,” which pledges to “recover the one million jobs lost during the pandemic within one yea
Posted: Apr 15, 2021 8:28 AM CT | Last Updated: April 15
Day one of the Nunavut Impact Review Board s final public hearings in Iqaluit, Monday April 12. The hearings were suspended on Wednesday following Iqaluit s first confirmed case of COVID-19.(Nick Murray/CBC News)
The Nunavut Impact Review Board hearings into Baffinland s Phase 2 expansion have been suspended.
Nunavut s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Michael Patterson made the order following Iqaluit s first COVID-19 case on Wednesday.
In an email to parties Wednesday night, the NIRB instructed all participants to isolate in their hotel rooms and await further instructions from health authorities.
In a statement to CBC News, the Qikiqtani Inuit Association said it was in full support of the decision to halt the hearings.
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“If there’s science behind it, if it makes sense, we should proceed co-operatively to follow the science.”
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Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister makes his way to a news conference in Winnipeg on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. If there’s science behind it, if it makes sense, we should proceed co-operatively to follow the science. Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister
Federation President David Chartrand. Unfortunately, Mr. Pallister has politicized his relationship with the Métis people in Manitoba. And I think, in this instance, it’s getting in the way of public health.
Despite Inuit opposition, Mary River mine hearing to go ahead next week
Gathering to be broadcast live on Uvagut TV
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. uses the port at Milne Inlet to ship iron ore to markets in western Europe. If the federal government permits its current expansion proposal, Baffinland will be allowed to ship up to 12 million tonnes of ore through this port, involving up to 176 ship transits. (File photo)
Despite persistent opposition from Inuit community groups, the Nunavut Impact Review Board will forge ahead next week with a long-awaited public hearing on a major railway-based expansion of the Mary River iron mine.
Posted: Jan 20, 2021 11:31 AM CT | Last Updated: January 20
A health-care worker holds a COVID-19 swab in this file photo. Manitoba has completed more than 456,000 tests for the illness since early February 2020.(Eduardo Verdugo/The Associated Press file photo)