Here’s a roundup of tales from The Canadian Press designed to convey you up to the mark…
Here’s a roundup of tales from The Canadian Press designed to convey you up to the mark…
All eyes on Freeland now that Carney is in
The ball is in Chrystia Freeland’s courtroom, now that Mark Carney has formally launched his marketing campaign to turn into the following Liberal chief.
Carney introduced alongside supporters in Edmonton on Thursday that he plans to run for the Liberal management.
Politics watchers might be ready to listen to what Freeland has to say subsequent, as she’s broadly anticipated to launch her personal bid quickly.
The previous finance minister can be anticipated to come back out towards shopper carbon pricing — a key coverage of her personal Liberal authorities.
Potential candidates have lower than every week left to resolve if they may enter the race.
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Joly met with U.S. politicians amid tariff risk
International Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will present an replace on Canada’s efforts to cease punishing U.S. tariffs this morning following conferences in Washington on border safety, commerce and funding Thursday.
Joly spent the day assembly with each Republicans and Democrats together with Senate Majority Chief John Thune, South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, and Idaho Sen. James Risch.
The conferences got here days earlier than incoming president Donald Trump takes workplace and his vow to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all merchandise coming into america from Canada and Mexico.
Vitality and Pure Sources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson was additionally in Washington this week and stated Thursday that the plan for Trump’s tariffs is unclear, even amongst Republican senators and congresspeople.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with premiers in Ottawa Wednesday to debate the nation’s response to Trump’s tariff risk.
Tech corporations look to Europe amid prorogation
Canadian tech corporations say they’re patching collectively their very own requirements, principally borrowed from European legal guidelines, to information them by the limbo of prorogation.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament till March 24, that routinely wiped tabled cybersecurity, privateness, synthetic intelligence, information and on-line harms bills from the agenda.
Tech corporations which had eagerly been watching them wind by Parliament had been then confronted with the truth that for these bills to turn into legislation, they must be reintroduced and undergo readings and debate as soon as extra or be reinstated at their earlier stage by unanimous consent of the Home or a movement to that impact.
Whereas corporations watch for Parliament to reconvene after which resolve which bills to revive, many say they’re selecting essentially the most superior and strict worldwide laws to abide by.
Most often, these laws come from Europe.
Ontario city wages authorized battle over Pleasure month
When Douglas Judson requested the Township of Emo to declare June as Pleasure month and show a rainbow flag for every week in 2020, he by no means imagined the request would flip right into a years-long authorized dispute that also has no finish in sight.
However the city’s refusal to proclaim Pleasure month has made the northwestern Ontario group of round 1,300 folks, close to the Minnesota border, a entrance line within the battle for LGBTQ+ rights.
Each June, rainbow flags are raised in municipalities throughout the nation in recognition of Pleasure month and to point out assist for the LGBTQ+ group. As a homosexual man, Judson stated he thought it could be good if the city the place he grew up additionally provided that recognition.
However issues did not go as he hoped.
On Might 12, 2020, a movement earlier than the township council to declare Pleasure month was defeated in a 3-2 vote. Borderland Pleasure, a company that operates in northwestern Ontario and northern Minnesota, and the Township of Emo have been locked in a human rights and authorized battle ever since.
The married forged behind ‘Virginia Woolf’
Being married isn’t a prerequisite to portraying the tortured {couples} on the coronary heart of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” however Paul Gross and Martha Burns actually see the benefit of having the ability to draw on their very own longtime union with the intention to inhabit the stormy characters.
The veteran stage and display screen stars every credit score an unstated shorthand with serving to them put together for a brand new spin on the fiery duo of George and Martha for a Canadian Stage manufacturing that begins previews on Saturday and formally opens Jan. 23.
To not counsel they share a lot in widespread with the explosive couple, who’ve come to epitomize marital toxicity and dysfunction within the many years since Edward Albee’s 1962 masterpiece hit the stage.
Throughout a rehearsal break, Burns and Gross sat shoulder-to-shoulder on a damask couch, chuckling over whether or not their resolution to share the stage was an excellent one.
Gross agrees, citing “a real shortcut” that negates any want for “long conversations about what a long relationship is like” and easy accessibility to the feelings and interpersonal dynamics that include a decades-long partnership.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 17, 2025.
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