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The year 2023 was by far the warmest in human history. Climate extremes now routinely shock in their intensity, with a direct monetary cost that borders on the unfathomable. Over $3 trillion (US) in damages to infrastructure, property, agriculture, and human health have already slammed the world economy this century, owing to extreme weather. That number will likely pale in comparison to what is coming. The World Economic Forum, hardly a hotbed of environmental activists, now reports that global damage from climate change will probably cost some $1.7 trillion to $3.1 trillion (US) per year by 2050, with the lion’s share of the damage borne by the poorest countries in the world.

And yet we fiddle.

In today’s Canada, there is deception, national in scope, coming directly from the right‑wing opposition benches in Ottawa. In 2023, the populist Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre adopted “Axe the tax” as his new mantra and has shaped his federal election campaign around that hackneyed rhyme.

Inside a bustling unit at St. Michael's Hospital in downtown Toronto, one of Shirley Bell's patients was suffering from a cat bite and a fever, but otherwise appeared fine — until an alert from an AI-based early warning system showed he was sicker than he seemed.

While the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon, the technology flagged incoming results several hours beforehand. That warning showed the patient's white blood cell count was "really, really high," recalled Bell, the clinical nurse educator for the hospital's general medicine program.

The cause turned out to be cellulitis, a bacterial skin infection. Without prompt treatment, it can lead to extensive tissue damage, amputations and even death. Bell said the patient was given antibiotics quickly to avoid those worst-case scenarios, in large part thanks to the team's in-house AI technology, dubbed Chartwatch.

"There's lots and lots of other scenarios where patients' conditions are flagged earlier, and the nurse is alerted earlier, and interventions are put in earlier," she said. "It's not replacing the nurse at the bedside; it's actually enhancing your nursing care."

What if citizens were called to policymaking duty the way they are called to jury duty?

All over the world, ordinary people are finding out what that’s like when they’re selected by civic lottery to participate in a citizens’ assembly, a democracy innovation that may just be the antidote to the polarization of the world we need.

[...]

According to the OECD database, environment and other long-term policy issues are the most popular topics addressed by citizens’ assemblies, and local governments are the most frequent users of these methods.

[...]

In citizens’ assemblies, there are teenagers and octogenarians, business people and activists, people of all genders, races and abilities, individuals who have been regulars at city council and those who have never engaged in local democracy before. Inevitably there is a wide range of political leanings, lots of passion and some trepidation.

[...]

The challenges range from giving everyone a base of technical knowledge to effectively participate in discussions — a component often missing in public consultations — to ensuring complex accessibility needs are met, something required to address the gap in effective involvement of people with disabilities in decision-making.

[...]

The OECD estimates that roughly half of the recommendations of deliberative processes are implemented. We’ve also found that the side benefits of citizens’ assemblies, such as increased community cohesion and a sense of hope, are substantial.

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Building trust with government may be another important outcome. Research shows trust in government is significantly higher among Canadians who feel they have a say in what the government does (79 per cent compared to 21 per cent who do not).

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's ruling Liberals, trailing badly in the polls, face a struggle on Monday to retain a once-safe seat in a special election where failure to win could boost calls for a new party leader.

The election in the Montreal parliamentary constituency of LaSalle—Emard—Verdun was called to replace a Liberal legislator who quit.

Normally Trudeau's party could count on an easy win there but surveys suggest the race is tight. If the Liberals lose, the focus will fall squarely on Trudeau, who has become increasingly unpopular after almost nine years in office.

Unusually, some Liberal legislators are breaking ranks to call for change at the top. Alexandra Mendes, a Liberal lawmaker who represents a Quebec constituency, said many of her constituents wanted Trudeau to go.

"I didn't hear it from two, three people - I heard it from dozens and dozens of people," she told public broadcaster Radio-Canada last week. "He's no longer the right leader."

The first teenage girl to be sentenced in the 2022 death of Toronto homeless man Kenneth Lee will not face any more time in custody and will instead spend time on probation while participating in a community-based program for young people with mental health issues.

The girl, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was 13 at the time of the December 18, 2022 attack in downtown Toronto, was credited for 15 months of effective pre-trial custody and will serve another 15 months of probation under an Intensive Support and Supervision Program, which is designed as an alternative to custody for youth who have been diagnosed with mental health disorders.

Justice David Stewart Rose says the sentence reflects that the teen has taken accountability for her actions by pleading guilty, and experienced institutional malfeasance while in custody, such as being forced to strip naked during searches.

A national dental care program was one of the keystones of the now-ended supply-and-confidence agreement between the Liberals and NDP, inked in 2022. It involves plans to roll out coverage especially for children, seniors, and low-income Canadians, and with remaining eligible Canadians slated to gain access in 2025.

When pressed by Kapelos on the statistic that nearly 650,000 Canadians have already accessed care, Scheer again would not directly say whether his party would scrap the program, if elected.

Air Canada and the union representing its pilots have come to terms on a labor agreement that is likely to prevent a shutdown of Canada’s largest airline.

Talks betwen the company and the Air Line Pilots Association produced a tentative, four-year collective agreement, the airline announced in a statement early Sunday.

The prospective deal recognizes the contributions of the pilots flying for Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge while setting a new framework for company growth. The terms will remain confidential until ratification by union members and approval by the airline’s board of directors over the next month, the airline said.

> Ellie’s home, like most in Six Nations, isn’t connected to municipal water. On the sprawling reserve in Southwestern Ontario, roughly 70 per cent of households, or about 8,500 people, are without piped, reliable drinking water.

The Six Nations reserve is a 1 hour 20 minute drive West from Niagara

>Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon met both the company and the union on Thursday. Both sides are still far apart on the question of wages. > >MacKinnon has broad powers to tackle disputes and last month intervened within 24 hours to end a stoppage at the country's two largest railway companies, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway. > >Air Canada says this set a precedent. But while Ottawa has intervened several times in labor disputes over the last few decades, it has only done so after stoppages have begun, not before. > >"We are not going to interfere, we are not going to take action before it really becomes very clear that there is no goodwill at the negotiating table," said Trudeau. > >The Business Council of Canada, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a joint statement on Friday calling on Ottawa to intervene to prevent a strike before it began.

As schools turn to university students and graduates without a teachers' degree to cope with a shortage, a certified teacher from Dieppe says she's been trying to find full-time work without success.

Dieppe resident Allie Fanjoy was hired as a supply teacher for the coming school year in late August, but she says the process was slow and frustrating.

More frustrating, she says, was learning that schools in the anglophone system are still short by 32 teachers — and three districts of the four are relying on 132 people on local permit contracts.

Local permit contracts enable school districts to hire people without teaching degrees, and some with no university degree at all.

>Canada is looking for a bigger security role in Asia and has made forging deeper ties with Japan and South Korea a priority. As its defence commitments expand at home and overseas the country is expanding military spending. > >"Next year, my defence budget will rise by 27% over this year, and, frankly, in the next three or four years, our defence spending will triple," Blair said.

cross-posted from: /c/britishcolumbia

> In 2008, as the-then B.C. Liberal government was poised to bring in Canada's first carbon tax, the B.C. NDP staunchly opposed it, saying a climate plan should not tax consumers but target major industrial producers such as the gas, oil, cement and aluminum industries.

>There are important geopolitical and cultural factors that influence Canadian support for Israel and help explain Saini's hostility to divesting, as the university recently did with fossil fuels and Russia. But the most pressing element is a remarkably empowered victim narrative. > >"Jews at McGill: 'We feel alone'", blared the cover of Saturday's National Post, linking to a two-page spread that included the spurious claim students organized a "Kristallnacht-themed rally" in November. (73 Postmedia outlets reportedly ran the story). The New York based Jewish Forward published a similar commentary headlined "For Jewish students at McGill like me, our return to campus is filled with dread".

>On Friday McGill students organized a walkout and some ripped up the grass where the encampment was demolished. Those who see little problem with destroying everything in Gaza were outraged grass had been damaged.

A brand of yogurt sold at Costco has been recalled due to mould, says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

The federal agency's notification affects 24-packs of Greek yogurt under Costco's Kirkland Signature brand with the best before date of Aug. 10, 2024, marked as "2024 AU 10." The printed UPC code is "0 96619 22215 5."

The agency says the microbial contamination is not harmful, though stores and consumers are told not to use, sell, serve or distribute the affected product.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has firmly stated that Ukraine should be allowed to conduct long-range strikes inside Russian territory, despite threats from Moscow.

This stance comes in the wake of Ukrainian forces occupying parts of Russian territory for the first time since World War II, and Ukrainian officialls asking Western partners to remove restrictions on the use of Western long-range weapons so that Ukraine can degrade Russia’s logistics and airfields in the rear and bring the war to an end faster.

“Canada fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry to prevent and interdict Russia’s continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure, and mostly to kill innocent civilians in their unjust war,” Trudeau declared at a news conference in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

MBFC

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28858201

> Results of Motion M-86: > > > ❌219 MPs: 🔴107 🔵111 > > ✅103 MPs: 🔴40 🔵4 ⚪️30 🟠24 ⚫️3 🟢2 > > ❓14 MPs: 🔴9 ⚪️2 🔵2 🟠1 > > Use Control-F to find your MP: > > 🔵Conservative: > > Poilievre, Hon. Pierre (Carleton) > > Aboultaif, Ziad (Edmonton Manning) > > Aitchison, Scott (Parry Sound—Muskoka) > > Albas, Dan (Central—Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola) > > Allison, Dean (Niagara West) > > Arnold, Mel (North Okanagan—Shuswap) > > Baldinelli, Tony (Niagara Falls) > > Barlow, John (Foothills) > > Barrett, Michael (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes) > > Berthold, Luc (Mégantic—L'Érable) > > Bezan, James (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman) > > Block, Kelly (Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek) > > Bragdon, Richard (Tobique—Mactaquac) > > Brassard, John (Barrie—Innisfil) > > Brock, Larry (Brantford—Brant) > > Calkins, Blaine (Red Deer—Lacombe) > > Caputo, Frank (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) > > Carrie, Colin (Oshawa) > > Chong, Hon. Michael D. (Wellington–Halton Hills) > > Cooper, Michael (St. Albert–Edmonton) > > Dalton, Marc (Pitt Meadows–Maple Ridge) > > Dancho, Raquel (Kildonan–St. Paul) > > Davidson, Scot (York–Simcoe) > > Deltell, Gérard (Louis-Saint-Laurent) > > Doherty, Todd (Cariboo—Prince George) > > Dowdall, Terry (Burnaby North-Seymour) > > Dreeshen, Earl (Red Deer—Mountain View) > > Duncan, Eric (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) > > Ellis, Stephen (Cumberland—Colchester) > > Epp, Dave (Chatham-Kent—Leamington) > > Falk, Rosemarie (Battlefords—Lloydminster) > > Falk, Ted (Provencher) > > Fast, Hon. Ed (Abbotsford) > > Ferreri, Michelle (Petersborough—Kawartha) > > Findlay, Hon. Kerry-Lynne D. (South Surrey–White Rock) > > Gallant, Cheryl (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke) > > Généreux, Bernard (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup) > > Genuis, Garnett (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan) > > Gladu, Marilyn (Sarnia—Lambton) > > Godin, Joël (Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier) > > Goodridge, Laila (Fort McMurray—Cold Lake) > > Gourde, Jacques (Lévis—Lotbinière) > > Gray, Tracy (Kelowna—Lake Country) > > Hallan, Jasraj Singh (Calgary Forest Lawn) > > Hoback, Randy (Prince Albert) > > Jeneroux, Matt (Edmonton Riverbend) > > Kelly, Pat (Calgary Rocky Ridge) > > Khanna, Arpan (Oxford) > > Kitchen, Robert (Souris—Moose Mountain) > > Kmiec, Tom (Calgary Shepard) > > Kram, Michael (Regina—Wascana) > > Kramp-Neuman, Shelby (Hastings—Lennox and Addington) > > Kurek, Damien C. (Battle River—Crowfoot) > > Kusie, Stephanie (Calgary Midnapore) > > Lake, Hon. Mike (Edmonton—Wetaskiwin) > > Lantsman, Melissa (Thornhill) > > Lawrence, Philip (Northumberland—Peterborough South) > > Lehoux, Richard (Beauce) > > Leslie, Branden (Portage—Lisgar) > > Lewis, Chris (Essex) > > Lewis, Leslyn (Haldimand—Norfolk) > > Liepert, Ron (Calgary Signal Hill) > > Lloyd, Dane (Sturgeon River—Parkland) > > Maguire, Larry (Brandon—Souris) > > Majumdar, Shuvaloy (Calgary Heritage) > > Martel, Richard (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord) > > Mazier, Dan (Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa) > > McCauley, Kelly (Edmonton West) > > McLean, Greg (Calgary Centre) > > Melillo, Eric (Kenora) > > Moore, Hon. Rob (Fundy Royal) > > Morantz, Marty (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley) > > Morrison, Rob (Kootenay—Columbia) > > Motz, Glen (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner) > > Muys, Dan (Flamborough—Glanbrook) > > Patzer, Jeremy (Cypress Hills—Grasslands) > > Paul-Hus, Pierre (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles) > > Perkins, Rick (South Shore—St. Margarets) > > Redekopp, Brad (Saskatoon West) > > Reid, Scott (Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston) > > Rempel Garner, Hon. Michelle (Calgary Nose Hill) > > Richards, Blake (Banff—Airdrie) > > Roberts, Anna (King—Vaughan) > > Rood, Lianne (Lambton—Kent—Middlesex) > > Scheer, Hon. Andrew (Regina—Qu'Appelle) > > Schmale, Jamie (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock) > > Seeback, Kyle (Dufferin—Caledon) > > Shields, Martin (Bow River) > > Shipley, Doug (Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte) > > Small, Clifford (Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame) > > Soroka, Gerald (Yellowhead) > > Steinley, Warren (Regina—Lewvan) > > Stewart, Jake (Miramichi—Grand Lake) > > Strahl, Mark (Chilliwack—Hope) > > Stubbs, Shannon (Lakeland) > > Thomas, Rachael (Lethbridge) > > Tochor, Corey (Saskatoon—University) > > Tolmie, Fraser (Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan) > > Uppal, Hon. Tim (Edmonton Mill Woods) > > Van Popta, Tako (Langley—Aldergrove) > > Vecchio, Karen (Elgin—Middlesex—London) > > Vidal, Gary (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River) > > Vien, Dominique (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) > > Viersen, Arnold (Peace River—Westlock) > > Vis, Brad (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) > > Wagantall, Cathay (Yorkton—Melville) > > Warkentin, Chris (Grande Prairie—Mackenzie) > > Waugh, Kevin (Saskatoon—Grasswood) > > Webber, Len (Calgary Confederation) > > Williams, Ryan (Bay of Quinte) > > Williamson, John (New Brunswick Southwest) > > Zimmer, Bob (Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies) > > > 🔴Liberal: > > Trudeau, Right Hon. Justin (Papineau) > > Freeland, Hon. Chrystia (University—Rosedale) > > Joly, Hon. Mélanie (Ahuntsic-Cartierville) > > Ali, Shafqat (Brampton Centre) > > Anand, Hon. Anita (Oakville) > > Beech, Hon. Terry (Burnaby North—Seymour) > > Guilbeault, Hon. Steven (Laurier—Sainte-Marie) > > Anandasangaree, Hon. 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Kamal (Brampton West) > > Koutrakis, Annie (Vimy) > > Lambropoulos, Emmanuella (Saint-Laurent) > > Lamoureux, Kevin (Winnipeg North) > > Lapointe, Viviane (Sudbury) > > Lattanzio, Patricia (Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel) > > Lauzon, Stéphane (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) > > LeBlanc, Hon. Dominic (Beauséjour) > > Lebouthillier, Hon. Diane (Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine) > > Longfield, Lloyd (Guelph) > > MacAulay, Hon. Lawrence (Cardigan) > > MacKinnon, Hon. Steven (Gatineau) > > Maloney, James (Etobicoke—Lakeshore) > > Martinez Ferrada, Hon. Soraya (Hochelaga) > > May, Bryan (Cambridge) > > McDonald, Ken (Avalon) > > McGuinty, Hon. David J. (Ottawa South) > > McKay, Hon. John (Scarborough—Guildwood) > > McKinnon, Ron (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) > > Miao, Wilson (Richmond Centre) > > Miller, Hon. Marc (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) > > Morrissey, Robert J. (Egmont) > > Ng, Hon. Mary (Markham—Thornhill) > > O'Connell, Jennifer (Pickering—Uxbridge) > > Oliphant, Hon. Robert (Don Valley West) > > Petitpas Taylor, Hon. Ginette (Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe) > > Powlowski, Marcus (Thunder Bay—Rainy River) > > Qualtrough, Hon. Carla (Delta) > > Robillard, Yves (Marc-Aurèle-Fortin) > > Rodriguez, Hon. Pablo (Honoré-Mercier) > > Rogers, Churence (Bonavista—Burin—Trinity) > > Romanado, Sherry (Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne) > > Sahota, Hon. Ruby (Brampton North) > > Sajjan, Hon. Harjit S. (Vancouver South) > > Saks, Hon. Ya'ara (York Centre) > > Samson, Darrell (Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook) > > Sarai, Randeep (Surrey Centre) > > Scarpaleggia, Francis (Lac-Saint-Louis) > > Schiefke, Peter (Vaudreuil—Soulanges) > > Sgro, Hon. Judy A. (Humber River—Black Creek) > > Shanahan, Brenda (Châteauguay—Lacolle) > > Sheehan, Terry (Sault Ste. Marie) > > Sidhu, Maninder (Brampton East) > > Sidhu, Sonia (Brampton South) > > Sorbara, Francesco (Vaughan—Woodbridge) > > St-Onge, Hon. Pascale (Brome—Missisquoi) > > Sudds, Hon. Jenna (Kanata—Carleton) > > Tassi, Hon. Filomena (Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas) > > Thompson, Joanne (St. John's East) > > Valdez, Hon. Rechie (Mississauga—Streetsville) > > Vandal, Hon. Dan (Saint Boniface—Saint Vital) > > Virani, Hon. Arif (Parkdale—High Park) > > Yip, Jean (Scarborough—Agincourt) > > Zuberni, Sameer (Pierrefonds—Dollard) > > Fonseca, Peter (Mississauga East—Cooksville) > > Kusmierczyk, Irek (Windsor—Tecumseh) > > O'Regan, Hon. Seamus (St. John's South—Mount Pearl) > > Wilkinson, Hon. Jonathan (North Vancouver) > > Statement: > > Canadians are done with the first-past-the post system as it favours the powerful few over the needs of the many, forcing folks to often choose between 2 bad choices at the ballot or their vote is spoiled. We cannot continue with first-past-the-post as it enables corrupt politicians to vote against a fairer electoral system that would represent 95% of the vote instead of 40%. Canadians deserve a electoral system that will allow them to vote for their favourite candidate and to hold the government accountable without having to vote for the most popular opposition in order to fire the corrupt MPs of the government. > > We need to build up the pressure and force the corrupt MPs to listen to the voices of everyday Canadians. > > Here's what you can do: > > Send a letter to your MP and demand they support proportional representation and advance electoral reform immediately. (Letters do not require stamps) > > Use Open Parliament to watch their next moves. > > Use 338Canada to watch the polls. > > Protest against them on the streets. > > Hold strikes demanding proportional representation be passed without a referendum, try to push for a national general strike. > > Vote them out. > > Bring the topic of proportional representation up when meeting with them in person. > > Talk to your family, friends and neighbours about proportional representation. > > We have more than a year to pass proportional representation, so lets get it done before the next election and force the corrupt MPs to do the right thing and make our democracy fairer. > > Sources: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1REoZ89VAqdcT2eqoGrkQpBOyxUWB9Dioc_-mpgvGZ9g/edit#heading=h.wcvuwdkfukli > > https://www.fairvote.ca/21/02/2024/vote-result-mps-from-all-parties-vote-for-motion-m-86-for-a-citizens-assembly-but-not-enough-to-win/

>But researchers say focusing on the environmental impacts and potential health harms of the finished products alone hides their actual environmental impact. Manufacturing Teflon and other fluoropolymers uses other, more dangerous PFAS chemicals. These compounds are known to contaminate the environment surrounding manufacturing facilities, said Rainer Lohmann, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. > >"Basically, anywhere where there's a major fluoropolymer producer, they seem to have succeeded in contaminating the entire region with their production process," he said.

>The ministry's move to remove fluoropolymers from its proposed rules suggests those industry lobbying efforts have worked, MacDonald said. Using a study with self-declared ties to the chemical industry to back up the ministry's decision to exclude fluoropolymers "just kind of shows a little bit of what's happening behind the scenes in terms of where the government is taking the industry's word," she said.

In 2013, Reynolds and Alcoa agreed to pay nearly US$20 million to tribal, state and federal authorities to help remediate the damage. The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe independently pursued settlements from Monsanto and its corporate successors — including Bayer, which bought the company in 2018 — alleging that polychlorinated biphenyls exposure led to increased risks of cancer and other diseases among tribal members.

David Carpenter, 87, is a physician and director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, in New York state.

Over the years, Carpenter witnessed an increasingly wide range of serious harms linked to polychlorinated biphenyls — including heart disease, infertility and diabetes. According to the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, the rate of diabetes in the community is 30 per cent, more than three times the Canadian prevalence of nine per cent. On the American side of the border, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and Health Services reports that diabetes affects 16 per cent of Mohawks living in Akwesasne, compared to eight per cent of the state population.

“Everybody thinks that diabetes is a function of being obese. I don’t think it is. It’s much more related to [polychlorinated biphenyls] and other environmental exposures than it is to obesity,” Carpenter says, pointing out the high rate of diabetes in Akwesasne affects both the young and the old.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-canada-labour-dispute-1.7321527

Obligatory fuck the CEOs and Shareholders

> "We are bargaining. We are committed to reaching a deal. But we are saying that if that fails, the government should be ready to intervene and avoid the disruption," - Christophe Hennebelle (Air Canada’s vice-president of corporate communications)

this is not what a company that's negotiating in good faith does

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> NDP won't support interference > > NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday morning the party would not support efforts to force pilots back to work. > > "We're going to send a clear message again that we are opposed to Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, or any government, interfering with workers," said Singh.

Wendy Washik was at a neighbourhood barbecue on Sept. 1 when she joined a playful water gun fight with one of her neighbour’s children. As the 58-year-old educational assistant was chasing the child to the front of the home, she said she accidentally sprayed another neighbour with water.

Washik said the neighbour called police and officers arrived at the scene a short time later and charged her with assault with a weapon. She claims police spoke to the neighbour who made the call but asked no one else questions about the incident.

(Monte MacGregor, a Toronto-based criminal defense lawyer, said) “Am I surprised that the charge has been laid? No. But do I recognize that it's an unfortunate and almost meaningless waste of resources? Yes, because they didn't interview her, right?” he said.

Story involves black bears of Canada and the monarchy that is part of the political system.

>But Salem said elected officials have an obligation to engage with their constituents. He said Plante could deal with online harassment by blocking individual accounts or reporting them to the police. "When we decide to be public figures, that goes with the position," he said. "When we want to be representative of the population, we have to be representative of the whole population." > >Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, director of the fundamental freedoms program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said a "blanket prohibition on comment" is an unreasonable limitation of people's freedom of expression. Instead, she said, elected officials should evaluate inappropriate comments on a case-by-case basis. > >"I would say that elected officials with significant resources shouldn't have their cake and eat it too," she said. "In that if they choose to have access to and to use social media platforms in the context of their public work, they should also accept that their constituents might want to comment on their work on that very public platform."

Despite the defence department spending more than $34.8 million on new sleeping bags, the Canadian Army asked late last year that hundreds of soldiers headed to a joint northern exercise in Alaska with the Americans be issued with old, 1960s-vintage bedrolls.

Troops who had used the recently issued General Purpose Sleeping Bag System (GPSBS) late last fall in a preparatory exercise found "several critical issues," according to an internal briefing note obtained by CBC News.

The "critical issues" discovered by the soldiers "related to lack of warmth with the new GPSBS," said the briefing note, written on Dec. 5, 2023.

In its statement, DND said it sought feedback from soldiers — but the department did not answer directly when asked what sort of cold weather testing was done before it chose to purchase the sleeping bags.

A cabinet minister who serves as the federal Liberals' national campaign co-chair told MPs at the party's recent caucus retreat that they need to "change their attitudes" if they want to turn around their dismal polling numbers, sources tell CBC News.

Three (MPs) said Tourism Minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada, national campaign co-chair, told them during her presentation that if they "want something to change" in their political prospects, they should change their "attitudes" first.

Two of those three MPs said the comment was poorly received by caucus members in the room. One said the statement was particularly galling because backbench MPs have been bearing the brunt of voters' dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government.

An Ontario Provincial Police finding that there was no "serious" officer misconduct after a police car struck and killed a pedestrian has been rejected in court.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled this week that the decision was "unreasonable" and the OPP failed to justify why it did not consider the conduct serious.

A police vehicle struck and killed Tyler Dorzyk late at night in September 2020 near Midland, Ont., and his spouse filed a complaint with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director over the conduct of the driver and another officer who attended the scene.

The review body determined that both engaged in discreditable conduct. It concluded that Const. Jaimee McBain, who was on a coffee run, did not operate her vehicle safely, and that the attending officer made insensitive comments that lacked impartiality.