5 h. ago BC Conservative MLA defies leader’s call to remove residential school social media post

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has asked Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie to take the posts down, but they remain up.

Politics

17 h. ago B.C. Conservative MLA backs lawyer in residential school row with Law Society

Lawyer James Heller unsuccessfully pushed for the society's training material to say there were "potentially" burial sites at a former Kamloops residential school

Society

3 d. ago Ontario Liberals suspend Oshawa candidate over social media post

Ontario’s Liberals have suspended their candidate in Oshawa over an inflammatory social media post. The suspension for Viresh Bansal comes after several Liberal candidates called on leader Bonnie Crombie to dump him. Bansal posted a response in 2023 to an NDP statement on the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar after Prime Minister Justin […]

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4 d. ago BC Conservative MLA says drugs took ‘unsurmountable’ toll on her family

A BC Conservative MLA has described the "unsurmountable" price paid by her family in the province's toxic drug crisis, which she said had claimed the lives of two of her brothers.

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5 d. ago Poilievre calls Carney’s fiscal plan a ’sneaky accounting trick’

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is slamming Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s plan to split the federal budget, calling it a “sneaky accounting trick” to avoid balancing the books. Carney vowed Wednesday to split the budget into two streams, capital and operating spending, and balance the operating side while running small capital deficits. At […]

Economics

6 d. ago Toronto now accepting requests for snow removal at your home address

Need snow removal at your Toronto home after this past weekend's historic snowstorm which blanketed parts of Toronto with upwards of 23 centimetres of snow? You'll be pleased to hear that the City is now accepting requests for snow clearing at residential addresses. In a post to its social media accounts on Tuesday, the City of Toronto announced that it's accepting 311 requests for snow clearing at homes. The announcement comes as crews and contractors continue to work 24/7 to clear snow from roads and sidewalks after 16 to 23 centimetres of snow fell across the city over the weekend. This massive dump of snow was in addition to the 15 to 20 centimetres of snow accumulated from Wednesday's snowstorm. If you see an area that needs plowing, you can report it on the City's website, after which a crew member will follow up. Snow clearing requests cover driveways blocked by plowed snowbanks, sidewalks, intersections, and city walkways. To be eligib...

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7 d. ago Ontario election: Liberal candidate under fire for social media post

The post is the latest in a string of social media comments made by Liberal candidates that the Progressive Conservative campaign has unearthed and shared. 

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