Housing minister warns against resistance to ending exclusionary zoning
TORONTO — Canada’s Housing Minister is warning that municipalities won’t succeed with applications for federal housing accelerator funding unless they are flexible on zoning rules.
Speaking Wednesday at an Empire Club of Canada luncheon in Toronto, Sean Fraser said a willingness to adopt zoning reforms has been key for the communities that signed deals with Ottawa.
Fraser said the federal government has seen “a change in approach overnight” on the part of cities that were initially resistant to such changes, as competition for the money has prompted some jurisdictions to
Official in Poland’s former conservative government charged in cash-for-visas investigation
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A deputy foreign minister in Poland’s previous right-wing government appeared before prosecutors Wednesday to hear charges connected to the alleged sale of visas and work permits to migrants for thousands of dollars, anti-corruption officials said.
The emerged last summer and undermined the tough-on-immigration stance of the ruling Law and Justice party, which went on to lose power in . An investigation earlier last year.
The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau said in a statement Wednesday it had detained the
Federal labor investigators say poultry company’s inaction led to the death of a teenage worker
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi poultry plant’s failure to follow safety protocols led to the death of a 16-year-old worker who was pulled into a machine, federal regulators said Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety violations in its investigation of the July workplace accident that caused the death of Duvan Pérez, a Guatemalan teenager and contract worker at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, the agency said
‘They are a distraction’: TDSB to consider student cellphone ban
Students should be focusing on textbooks, not texts, according to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustee whose motion calling for an updated policy on cellphone use in schools was approved on Wednesday night.
The passed by a vote of 7-1. Trustees will now consider anything from limiting cellphone use, to an outright ban of the devices in Toronto classrooms.
TDSB Trustee for Don Valley West, Rachel Chernos Lin, told CityNews the motion she filed seeks clarity on the contentious topic of cellphone use.
Chernos Lin said
DeSantis shifts his campaign away from New Hampshire days before the state’s primary, AP source says
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — has decided to shift his presidential campaign away from New Hampshire just six days before the while his leading super PAC executes another round of layoffs, moves that reflect the Florida governor’s rapidly shrinking path to the .
DeSantis won’t ignore the state completely over the coming days, but he’s reallocating the majority of his staff to South Carolina, the home state of rival , with its primary in just over a month. That’s according to senior campaign
Quebec man charged with killing three men with truck ordered to stand trial
A Quebec man accused of killing three people with his truck last March in a town about 350 kilometres northeast of Quebec City has been ordered to stand trial.
Steeve Gagnon’s preliminary inquiry was scheduled to last five days this week but the hearing ended today with the consent of both parties.
In response, Quebec court Judge Annick Boivin sent the case to trial and put off proceedings until June 3.
Gagnon is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, nine counts of attempted murder and two counts of
Amid criticism, Canada asks Israel how it can help respond to Hamas sexual violence
A multipartisan group of influential women is calling on Canada to help Israel heal from sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas, though it remains unclear what people in that country actually want from Ottawa.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked senior officials with sorting out how Canada can help Israeli officials investigate the role of sexual violence in October’s brutal Hamas attack on Israel and support those affected.
But those pushing for Canada to get involved say Ottawa’s response has been slow and harmful.
“Israeli women deserve more than a tweet,
Ontario preparing for next step in private clinic expansion
Ontario is preparing for the next step in its expansion of private clinics that can offer publicly funded tests and procedures.
The province’s plan to expand the number of facilities offering services like cataract surgeries and MRIs, as well as adding hip and knee replacement surgeries, has raised the ire of some health advocates who worry it is a stepping stone to privatization.
Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the expansion will allow more procedures to be performed and reduce wait times, and patients will never have to pay out of pocket for OHIP
Alberta releases first report on well cleanup; $33B liability estimate called too low
Alberta’s oil and gas producers spent nearly $700 million in 2022 on cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of old wells that dot the province, the regulator’s first report on the extent of those liabilities indicates.
That’s 65 per cent more than they were required to spend under provincial rules, which took 8,000 inactive wells off the books, the report says.
“Industry is moving infrastructure toward closure,” said Chad Newton, the regulator’s
‘My stomach just sank’: Nanny describes frantic day Connecticut mother of five disappeared
A nanny who cares for five children whose recalled in court on Wednesday the frantic day Jennifer Dulos vanished, kicking off a search that eventually turned into a murder investigation.
The nanny, Lauren Almeida, testified of Michelle Troconis, who was the girlfriend of Dulos’ estranged husband, Fotis Dulos. Troconis is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes on allegations that she helped Fotis Dulos cover up the killing of Jennifer Dulos.
Almeida said Wednesday she had four of their children with her — the other was at a friend