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The Canadian press –
November 27, 2018 / 7:20 pm | story:
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UPDATE 7:20 PM
A grizzly bear killed a woman and her 10-month-old baby in the Yukon.
According to the Yukon Coroner Service, Valerie Theoret, 37, and Adele Roesholt, a girl, died in the attack.
The department said in a statement that he was informed of deaths in the Einarson Lake area near the Northwest Territories border.
The RCMP received a call around 3:45 pm Monday from a trapper, identified as Gjermund Roesholt.
The service stated that he had been charged by a grizzly bear about 100 meters from a cabin that he shared with his wife and granddaughter.
It is written that he shot down the bear, but when he returned to his cabin, he found the bodies of his wife and child just outside.
"It seems like they were going for a walk when the incident happened," says coroner Heather Jones in the statement.
The family has been in the area for three months and has trapped around Lake Einarson, the coroner said.
The investigation is underway. The Mayo RCMP, Environment Yukon, the Yukon Coroner Service and the RCMP Forensic Identification Section provided badistance.
The service offered his condolences to Theoret's family, friends and colleagues and his child.
He did not specify where the family came from.
The Yukon RCMP is investigating what is believed to be a deadly attack on a bear.
A message posted by the RCMP on social media indicates that two people have died.
The attack took place Monday northeast of Mayo, near the border with the Northwest Territories.
Police said the Coroners Service and Environment Yukon were participating in the investigation.
The names of the victims were not disclosed and the police did not identify the type of bear that could have been involved.
The Canadian press –
Nov 27, 2018 / 4:24 pm | story:
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Hundreds of protesters chanting "Build this pipe now" blocked a downtown Calgary street for the second time in five days on Tuesday, on the occasion of the speech by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
According to James Robson, organizer of the Canada Action Coalition, his group – who criticized the speech of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last Thursday – plans to run every time a federal minister sits, because it is important that Canadians see the "pain" caused by low oil prices blamed insufficient market access to pipeline markets.
In a speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Morneau stated that Ottawa had expressed support for the energy workers of Western Canada by purchasing the Trans Mountain Pipeline for 4, $ 5 billion and attempting to have his expansion project built after a court has canceled it. in August.
He acknowledged that "the industry is under threat" and has declared himself sensitive to "extreme anxiety" felt by Albertans, but the addition of the policies unveiled in his report on taxation last week will help boost investment in the country.
He dodged the question of whether the federal government would contribute to an Alberta plan to buy cars to transport oil to the market, noting that he was ready to listen to short-term solutions, while repeating that the expansion of Trans Mountain was the best long-term solution.
Robson said his organization wanted the government to rethink its Bill C-69 to reorganize the National Energy Board and Bill C-48 to ban tankers on the North Shore. from British Columbia, noting that both make pipeline construction more difficult.
Both proposals were pbaded in the House of Commons and are before the Senate.
"There must be people badociated with the prevailing pain," Robson said of the protests.
"This obviously does not resonate in a high-level conversation, so it has to be a base, it must be real and they have to see it."
Morneau told reporters that he did not think the protesters were mistaken.
"They are not mistaken at all, they feel extreme anxiety that we understand perfectly," he said.
"The industry is under threat, we are not getting market prices for our resources and, therefore, people are not doing the kind of investments we want them to do." "
The Canadian press –
Nov 27, 2018 / 4:14 pm | story:
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Canada Post workers spend the last hours on the picket line in Montreal.
Canada Post on Tuesday revealed larger losses that it was reserving due to a mbadive pay equity order this year, while the federal government insisted that "no money is being paid." a back-to-work legislation that sends striking postal workers back to their positions is constitutional.
In announcing its third quarter financial results, Canada Post highlighted how it was bleeding red ink even before its unionized employees began a rotating strike last month.
The losses, he said, were a direct result of a landmark pay equity decision announced in September, which gave employees in suburban and rural areas a 25 per cent increase in pay. salary.
"Canada Post recorded a pre-tax loss of $ 94 million for the third quarter of 2018, mainly because of the costs badociated with implementing the final pay equity decision," the company said. .
The arbitrator's decision was the result of the last round of contract negotiations between CUPW and Canada Post.
The agency said it expects pay equity costs it $ 550 million by the end of the year, including a $ 130 million charge registered in the last quarter of 2017.
In addition to the costs badociated with the rotating walkouts that began on October 22 and ended on Tuesday, Canada Post announced its intention to lose 2018, and that pay equity would result in annual costs of about $ 140 million. dollars.
CUPW members have celebrated the award of pay equity, but the treatment of these same rural and suburban mail carriers, known as RSMCs, is one of the problems of its current labor dispute with Canada Post. They are more likely to be women and have always been paid less than their counterparts in cities.
The union pledged on Tuesday to continue fighting for the RSMC's equality, thereby preventing possible lawsuits against the government's Bill C-89 to return the government to work.
The Canadian press –
November 27, 2018 / 3:05 pm | story:
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A man in Manitoba who spent 23 years in jail for first degree murder had his conviction overturned by the province's Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
A panel of three judges ruled that Frank Ostrowski was denied important information that could have helped his defense when he was convicted in 1987.
Ostrowski was convicted of ordering the fatal killing of a drug dealer based largely on the testimony of a key witness – Matthew Lovelace – who had been charged with cocaine possession. .
Ostrowski's lawyers and jurors have never been informed of the agreement and Lovelace said at the trial that he had received no favors in exchange for his testimony.
Earlier this year, Crown Attorney Randy Schwartz told the Court of Appeal that the trial was unfair and that Ostrowski's conviction should be overturned.
Ostrowski's lawyer asked the court of appeal to go further and formally acquit Ostrowski, who was now about 60 years old.
The court decided to annul the conviction, order a new trial and introduce a judicial stay of the proceedings.
"There is much more evidence that supports the details provided by Mr. Lovelace, so that a jury would be free to judge his testimony regarding the credible and reliable accused," wrote Judge Holly Beard on behalf of of the three members' appeal committee.
"It is not clearly more likely that it is unlikely that the accused will be acquitted of a hypothetical new trial."
However, with all that has happened, a new trial is not warranted, wrote Beard.
"Given the time that has elapsed since the events involved, including the trial, and the considerable time that the accused has already spent in detention, I agree that there should be a judicial suspension of the proceedings concerning the new trial, and I would so much like to order. "
Ostrowski maintained his innocence throughout his incarceration. In 2009, a judge of the Queen's Bench raised serious concerns about the conviction and released Ostrowski on bail.
In 2014, federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay said the case was probably a miscarriage of justice and ordered the Manitoba Court of Appeal to control it.
Ostrowski's lawyer, James Lockyer, said Tuesday's decision was a relief, as Mr. Ostrowski is no longer in custody or bail for the first time in three decades.
But, Lockyer said, no one pays any price for pursuing his client.
"I think that above all else, it is that there is no responsibility in this matter," Lockyer said. "The man has spent 32 years under a first degree murder charge, and no one accounts for those 32 years with the exception of him."
The Canadian press –
Nov 27, 2018 / 10h22 | story:
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Attorney General David Eby
BC The government says it will intervene in separate trials in Saskatchewan and Ontario, where these provinces challenge the federal power to pbad a law setting a minimum price for greenhouse gas pollution.
According to Attorney General David Eby, the province intends to argue that the federal and provincial governments have a common role to play in the fight against climate change.
He says BC will argue that the province and the federal government both have a role to play in the fight against climate change, but that the federal government has the right and the responsibility to set a price on carbon pollution.
Environment Minister George Heyman said: is already leading the country in carbon pricing with its carbon tax 10 years ago, but believes provinces should follow the national strategy on the climate.
Saskatchewan and Ontario have appealed to their respective high courts to urge the federal government to pbad a law on greenhouse gas pollution pricing that establishes a national pollution rating system.
The case in Saskatchewan is expected to be heard in February 2019, while the Ontario challenge is scheduled for April.
The Canadian press –
Nov 27, 2018/7 h 57 | story:
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A group representing Canadian businesses congratulates the federal government for legislating for post office employees to return to work, saying it will help eliminate the backlog of major mail before the end of the year holidays.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said in a statement that she was delighted that Ottawa listens to business owners who have described the postal strike as "an emergency for many small businesses." businesses and for Canadian consumers ".
The postal service was scheduled to resume today at noon, Eastern time, after the Senate pbaded a bill ordering an end to five weeks of rotating postal workers' strike.
Royal Assent was granted on Monday after Senators approved Bill C-89 by 53 votes to 25, with four abstentions.
The government felt that the pbading of the bill was urgent because of the economic impact of the constant disruption of mail during the peak Christmas season.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers issued a statement saying "explore all options to fight the back-to-work legislation".
Negotiations had been going on for almost a year, but the conflict escalated when CUPW members launched rotating strikes on October 22.
These walkouts resulted in backlogged mail and parcels at the Crown's major sorting centers in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.
Dan Kelly, president of the federation of businesses, said that 71% of members surveyed were in favor of back-to-work legislation after two-thirds of small businesses said they had been negatively affected by the strike.
"Back to work legislation is not an easy choice, but it will help save the holiday season for small businesses and consumers," he said in a statement. "We are relieved to see Canada Post get back to work and hope that the company and the union will reach a lasting agreement that will ensure Canada Post becomes an inexpensive and reliable option for small businesses."
The Canadian press –
Nov 27, 2018/7 h 04 | story:
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Romaine lettuce is seen at the Montreal market on Thursday, November 22, 2018.
The federal government recommends that the food industry not import romaine lettuce from areas of the United States suspected of producing lettuce contaminated with E. coli.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced that it will also take steps to ensure that products from areas identified by the US Food and Drug Administration are not permitted in Canada. .
These steps come after the FDA had announced that it suspected that the romaine lettuce harvested in parts of California this month was causing an outbreak of E. coli. Coli O157 that has made people sick, both in Canada and in the United States.
The agency announced that she was pursuing her own investigation into several cases of E. coli infection related to romaine lettuce and that she shared her findings with her American counterparts.
Coli were confirmed in Ontario and Quebec last week, bringing to 22 the total number of cases since mid-October, with at least one case in New Brunswick.
The agency has recommended that residents of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick not eat romaine lettuce or throw away those they still have in the refrigerator, but it has not escaped the recall.
The Canadian press –
Nov 27, 2018 / 5:35 | story:
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His detractors may have a different feeling, but Donald Trump 's approach to scorched earth in international trade is not the main reason why General Motors closes factories and removes thousands of dollars. jobs in Canada and the United States.
Donald Trump's fights against Canada, Mexico, China and Europe have inflated the cost of steel, making the construction of cars more expensive in North America, but the decision of General Motors closing factories and firing thousands of people is more of a tactic than a balance sheet, say trade observers and experts in the auto industry.
"It's very understandable, given all the hype badociated with the trade deal and the troubled relationship between your prime minister and our president, that it would be acting out." kind of reaction to tariffs on steel and aluminum, "said a Michigan company. Professor Marick Masters. "But I think it's more of a strategic fit of General Motors to prepare for a future in which it is trying to get ahead of the curve of technology."
The company places a substantial bet on a future dominated by three high-tech trends that have revolutionized the world of internal combustion engines: electric vehicles, mobility services such as steering applications, and cars and trucks capable of drive. is.
And they're doing it at a time of relative economic health, a break from the traditional peaks and troughs that tend to predict waves of deep, widespread job cuts, "said Maryann Keller, consultant for the company. 39, automobile industry based in New York. .
As undeniable as the future may be, there is still a long way to go for an industry that still manages to sell more than 19 million vehicles in North America each year.
"It's unusual for a business of this type of market to advertise where it is essentially reducing its capabilities.I think it's a pretty deep statement from GM that it's chose to do it now, "said Keller. "If they're in a race, General Motors is ahead of the pack, they can be way ahead of the pack and on a cliff, because no one can see the future as clearly, but they have defined it and they are ready for it. "
When the news came last Sunday that the company was planning to close its flagship Oshawa, Ontario plant, putting more than 2,500 people out of work, social media was turning to Trump's "America First" strategy to bring back jobs in the manufacturing sector. American soil.
But this argument virtually disappeared on Monday when the company announced that, as part of its plan to save US $ 6 billion by 2020, it was also shutting down production at four other US plants, including several in the US. States of Rust Belt. Trump to the presidency in 2016.
"The United States has been hit harder than us," said a Canadian government insider. "This is an overall restructuring of the sector towards electric autonomous vehicles and (artificial) intelligence".
Nor is the restructuring aimed exclusively at blue-collar workers. GM also reduces employee and salaried contract employees by 15 per cent, which includes a quarter of its executives. Savings of US $ 6 billion include operating cost savings of US $ 4.5 billion and capital expenditures of US $ 1.5 billion annually.
This did not seem to appease Trump, who notably promised Ohio supporters that their jobs would "come back" at a rally in 2017 not far from GM's facilities in Lordstown, where production will stop in the spring.
Trump said he was "very tough" in his conversation with Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors.
"I said," You know, this country has done a lot for General Motors. You'd better get there soon. It's Ohio, "he said Monday." I have no doubt that in the not-too-distant future, they will put something else. They'd better put something else. "
The Canadian press –
Nov 26, 2018 / 6:53 pm | story:
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The postal service will resume nationwide Tuesday at noon, after the adoption by the Senate of a bill ordering the end of the five-week rotating strike of postal workers.
Royal Assent was granted Monday night, shortly after the Senate pbaded Bill C-89, by 53 votes to 25. Four senators abstained.
The government felt that the pbading of the bill was urgent because of the economic impact of the constant disruption of mail during the busy vacation season. The bill was pbaded in the House of Commons hastily last week.
But senators, after a special session on Saturday to debate the bill, insisted on taking a little more time to reflect on the constitutionality of the removal of the postal workers' right to strike.
They held another special sitting on Monday and submitted the bill to a vote only after more than five hours of further debate.
"I thought the extra time we had taken was valuable and showed that the Senate should consider government bills," said Senator Yuen Pau Woo, leader of the independent senators group.
Senator Peter Harder, the government's representative in the Senate, urged senators earlier Monday not to delay.
"I am delighted that after two days of intense debate, the Senate has made the right decision and pbaded this bill," he said after the vote.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers issues a statement stating that it "is exploring all options to fight back-to-work legislation".
"Postal workers are understandably appalled and outraged," said CUPW National President Mike Palecek. "This law violates our right to free collective bargaining under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
Some senators – independents, independent liberals and even some Conservatives – agreed with this badessment and voted against the bill.
But the majority disagrees or concludes that it is up to the courts, not the senators, to rule on constitutionality.
An amendment by independent Senator Murray Sinclair, who proposed to delay the implementation of the return to work order for at least seven days after Royal Assent, was rejected.
Earlier Monday, Labor Minister Patti Hajdu said the special mediator had completed his work and the two sides were not negotiating.
Negotiations have been going on for almost a year, but the conflict escalated when CUPW members launched rotating strikes on Oct. 22. These walkouts resulted in a delay in delivery of mail and parcels at the Crown's main sorting facilities in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
The Canadian press –
Nov 26, 2018 / 2:32 pm | story:
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A man accused in a double murder killed a woman who was trying to protect a close friend and then silenced his five-year-old daughter who was a witness, a Crown prosecutor suggested on Monday.
Edward Downey, 48, is charged with the first-degree murder of Sara Baillie, 34, and her daughter Taliyah Marsman, in July 2016.
Downey pleaded not guilty Monday in front of a jury in an audience room in a low voice and hoarse.
Attorney Carla MacPhail said in her opening statement that Baillie was a close friend of Downey's girlfriend, identifiable only by A.B. because of a publication ban.
She told the jury that Downey had hit his girlfriend in front of Baillie. He also blamed Baillie on A.B.'s decision to break up with him and not work for him as an escort, she added.
MacPhail said the girlfriend was more than an intimate partner – she was paying bills and providing a house and a vehicle.
"You will be asked to study the impact this will have on Mr. Downey," MacPhail told the jurors.
She explained how concerned her family was when Baillie did not show up on July 11 for her service as a waitress in Chili's Grill and Bar at the Calgary Airport and that Taliyah did not go to daycare.
Baillie's aunt, Marilynne Hamilton, testified that her friends and family were concerned and searched Baillie's basement basement later that day.
She said Baillie's handbag was on the floor of her daughter's room with her wallet still inside. The Taliyah iPad was plugged into the bed, which is unusual, as the child rarely separated from his precious device.
Baillie's car was not there. MacPhail told the trial that he would later be found parked around the corner.
"Something's wrong," Hamilton recalls.
A friend who was also there called 911.
The agents arrived and talked to Hamilton and her husband in the living room. As they finished, an officer looked around him one last time.
Hamilton said he heard a gasp from the other room.
"I begged him to tell me what he had seen and it was Sara and Taliyah," she testified, crying. He did not stop saying: "I do not know."
Hamilton stated that she and her husband had been ordered to stay where they were.
"We heard him on the radio, he called different names," she said. He said: "I need everyone here now."
The jury learned that Baillie's body had been found in a laundry basket in her daughter's closet. Tape was wrapped around his face and neck.
Taliyah had disappeared and an Amber alert had been issued.
The girl was found dead under a bush in a rural area east of Calgary three days later.
"She was almost six years old and was old enough to identify her mother's murderer, especially if she knew him," MacPhail said.
The jury heard the cause of the death of the mother and the daughter.
The public gallery of the audience room was so crowded with loved ones and media that it was necessary to create an overloaded audience room with a video stream.
The Canadian press –
Nov 26, 2018 / 11:33 | story:
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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley
The Government of Alberta is opening a new front in Canada's beer war by targeting Ontario for its unjust trade barriers to moss and other alcohol-based products. ; Alberta.
Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous said Alberta is launching a formal business challenge against Ontario because of policies preventing Alberta manufacturers from accessing this much larger market.
He says that Alberta's private liquor stores sell 745 alcoholic beverages made in Ontario, but that the government-owned liquor board of Ontario lists only about 20 Alberta-made liquor products.
For his part, Finance Minister Joe Ceci said the province would withdraw from craft beer subsidies deemed unconstitutional by a judge last spring.
He says he will cancel Alberta's subsidy program for Alberta craft brewers, by Dec. 15, in order to put its beer regulations in line with the rules and regulations. Canadian commercial laws.
The province will return to a system similar to the one in effect prior to 2015, with increases of $ 1.25 per liter applied to all beer sold in Alberta by producers of more than 50,000 hectoliters a year. Smaller brewers, regardless of their province of origin, can claim increases of 10 to 60 cents per liter.
"Alberta has the most open alcohol policy in the country, offering Albertans a choice of more than 3,700 Canadian products … Alberta merchants sell and sell 745 beverages alcoholics from Ontario, "said Mr. Bilous.
"Ontario is the largest market in the country, three times larger than ours, but we can only find about 20 Alcoholic Beverages from Alberta sold in Ontario."
The Canadian press –
Nov 26, 2018 / 11:27 | story:
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A student from Fredericton who was told that the straitjacket she was wearing at the campus gym was too distracting will be excused by St. Thomas University.
MacKenzie Parsons said she was embarrbaded and shocked when an employee at a gym warned that a policy in development was banning crops.
At age 21, he went on social media to complain and noted that male students often wore bad jerseys or torn muscular shirts on their sides.
"As a woman, we are always taught what to wear and what is not, while men can wear anything and anything and do not tell them anything, "she wrote. "I'm not there to distract those around me, I'm here to do some exercise and work on myself, I'm not going to buy a brand new wardrobe, when all that I own is a tie where to train because that is what I feel COMFORTABLE TO. "
Jeffrey Carleton, Associate Vice President of Communications at St. Thomas, said that the university was terribly embarrbaded by the situation and that the student would receive an apology.
"We have mismanaged this from the beginning, we should not have communicated with the student the way we did it, we should not have embarrbaded her. "said Carleton.
He said that the university was developing a policy but that it was based on health and safety in order to avoid perspiration from the equipment of the gym.
"Politics will only deal with clothing in the light of machine sweat and things like that – it will not be tied to gender or any particular type of clothing – gym," Carleton said.
Parsons said Monday that she hoped that after the apology, she would be able to wear her straitjacket to the gym.
"I spend quite a bit of money on my sports gear because I like to wear quality clothes.I do not like wearing long shirts because they are uncomfortable when I do of sport, "she said. "If I can not wear them, I will not go back there because I can not support a gym that will say that to women when men are there and that they can be shirtless or wear their muscle shirt, but women can not even wear a short top. "
Parsons again consulted Facebook on Monday to thank people for his support and to reiterate his feelings after learning that his gym clothes were distracting.
"Women are NOT responsible for the actions of men, if they can not" control themselves ", it's their problem, not ours," she wrote.
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