May 16 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Flood-ravaged provinces are asking the federal government to provide almost $138 million to move or buy out homeowners affected by previous years' inundations, according to new data that gives a glimpse into the national costs of helping residents leave floodplains. Calculations based on previous experience suggest that the total cost of giving up on […]
May 16 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Flood-ravaged provinces are asking the federal government to provide almost $138 million to move or buy out homeowners affected by previous years' inundations, according to new data that gives a glimpse into the national costs of helping residents leave floodplains. Calculations based on previous experience suggest that the total cost of giving up on […]
May 16 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Flood-ravaged provinces are asking the federal government to provide almost $138 million to move or buy out homeowners affected by previous years' inundations, according to new data that gives a glimpse into the national costs of helping residents leave floodplains. Calculations based on previous experience suggest that the total cost of giving up on […]
May 10 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A new plan to help rural Canada thrive will focus on expanding internet and cellphone coverage, even funding communities that want to be their own service providers, the minister in charge of it says. Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan is expected to unveil the strategy next month. In an interview this week, Jordan said the […]
May 10 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A new plan to help rural Canada thrive will focus on expanding internet and cellphone coverage, even funding communities that want to be their own service providers, the minister in charge of it says. Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan is expected to unveil the strategy next month. In an interview this week, Jordan said the […]
May 10 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A new plan to help rural Canada thrive will focus on expanding internet and cellphone coverage, even funding communities that want to be their own service providers, the minister in charge of it says. Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan is expected to unveil the strategy next month. In an interview this week, Jordan said the […]
May 6 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A planned increase in the value of the Canada Child Benefit will miss just over one-fifth of Indigenous families living on reserves, part of the five per cent of families nationwide who don't receive the monthly payments. Federal officials plan to visit more than 500 rural and remote Indigenous communities over the next 11 months to […]
May 6 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A planned increase in the value of the Canada Child Benefit will miss just over one-fifth of Indigenous families living on reserves, part of the five per cent of families nationwide who don't receive the monthly payments. Federal officials plan to visit more than 500 rural and remote Indigenous communities over the next 11 months to […]
May 6 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A planned increase in the value of the Canada Child Benefit will miss just over one-fifth of Indigenous families living on reserves, part of the five per cent of families nationwide who don't receive the monthly payments. Federal officials plan to visit more than 500 rural and remote Indigenous communities over the next 11 months to […]
May 1 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The commissioner of the National Hockey League hit back Wednesday at the notion of banning any kind of head contact in hockey, telling a parliamentary panel that such a rule would be impossible to enforce and lead to the end of hitting in hockey. The league has faced calls to penalize any head […]
May 1 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The commissioner of the National Hockey League hit back Wednesday at the notion of banning any kind of head contact in hockey, telling a parliamentary panel that such a rule would be impossible to enforce and lead to the end of hitting in hockey. The league has faced calls to penalize any head […]
May 1 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The commissioner of the National Hockey League hit back Wednesday at the notion of banning any kind of head contact in hockey, telling a parliamentary panel that such a rule would be impossible to enforce and lead to the end of hitting in hockey. The league has faced calls to penalize any head […]
Apr 29 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — More Canadian soldiers are helping in the battle to sandbag homes against the still-rising floodwaters in central and eastern Canada than are deployed overseas, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says, though in a few places the water is slowly beginning to recede. States of emergency have been declared in Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick as waters […]
Apr 29 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — More Canadian soldiers are helping in the battle to sandbag homes against the still-rising floodwaters in central and eastern Canada than are deployed overseas, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says, though in a few places the water is slowly beginning to recede. States of emergency have been declared in Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick as waters […]
Apr 29 2019 — Jordan Press, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — More Canadian soldiers are helping in the battle to sandbag homes against the still-rising floodwaters in central and eastern Canada than are deployed overseas, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says, though in a few places the water is slowly beginning to recede. States of emergency have been declared in Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick as waters […]