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Trumps ambassador to Canada
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has picked a former Michigan congressman as his upcoming administration’s ambassador to Canada.
Hoekstra served as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump’s first term as president.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10880966/trump-us-canada-ambassador-pick/
Trudeau government to send $250 cheques to most people, slash GST on some goods
The GST/HST holiday will start on Dec. 14 and run through Feb. 15, 2025.
People will be able to buy the following goods GST-free:
With these exemptions, all food in Canada will be essentially tax-free.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-gst-vacation-christmas-1.7389206
Organic carrots sold in Canada, U.S. recalled in deadly E.coli outbreak
https://globalnews.ca/news/10874770/e-coli-infection-carrots-recall-canada-us/
As fall secures its grip on Calgary, there’s that first Sunday every November where Albertans get an extra hour of shut-eye.
Also called daylight saving time, MDT begins on the second Sunday of March each year — that’s the “spring forward.”
Regarding the switch in the fall, this year the change to MST lands on Sunday, Nov. 3, when clocks will go back one hour at 2 a
Canadian seniors are set to receive a scheduled top-up in benefits as the Liberal government faces pressure to increase payments for those under the age of 75 years.
October payments of the old age security (OAS) pension will roll out on Tuesday to eligible Canadians aged 65 years or older.
OAS amounts are reviewed each year in January, April, July and October to reflect cost-of-living
increases, as measured by the
Consumer Price Index (CPI).
https://globalnews.ca/news/10834467/old-age-security-payments-oct-2024/
#cosocanuks
#Cdnpoli
It was a tight election race but Scott Moe secured the Saskatchewan Party’s fifth-straight majority, defeating challenger Carla Beck’s NDP that was looking to take back government for the first time since 2007.
While the official count is still ongoing, Global News is projecting the Saskatchewan Party will form a majority government in the 61-seat legislature.
This was the Sask. Party’s second election under Moe.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10831409/saskatchewan-election-2024/
If Canadians could vote in the U.S. election, a majority would choose to send Kamala Harris to the White House.
64 per cent of Canadian respondents said if they could cast a ballot, they’d put their support behind vice-president Harris while 21 per cent would support former president Donald Trump
Those who intend to vote Conservative in the next Canadian election. Forty-five per cent would back Trump while 42 per cent said they’d vote for Harris.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10830218/us-election-canada-poll/
more re new immigration policy
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government will announce a dramatic immigration cut Thursday, reducing new permanent resident numbers by almost 100,000 in 2025 after years of consecutive increases to the country’s immigration targets.
government is planning to decrease permanent resident intake from 485,000 this year to 395,000 in 2025. It is then expecting to further cut intake to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-government-lower-immigration-2025
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The federal government is set to announce major changes to Canada’s immigration system on Thursday, three sources tell Global News.
It comes amid a push from up to 30 backbench Liberal MPs to have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quit.
One of those sources said there will be a reduction in the number of permanent residents admitted to Canada on an annual basis in future years and changes to temporary immigration streams.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10826297/canada-immigration-targets-new/
EDMONTON – The Alberta government is proposing additional restrictions on wind and solar farms that conservationists think are more about limiting renewable energy than protecting the environment.
Last year the Alberta government imposed a seven-month moratorium on new renewable energy projects, after which Premier Danielle Smith announced her government would be taking an “agriculture first” approach to regulating renewable energy project locations.
Toronto-Dominion Bank will pay about $3 billion in penalties and face restrictions on its US growth in a settlement with regulators over its failure to catch money laundering, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Although we’re only a few weeks into fall, it’s already time to start thinking about the winter ahead and the increased darkness we Canadians will soon have to endure.
Daylight saving time 2024 will come to an end on Nov. 3, so consider this your one-month warning
(The Yukon, most of Saskatchewan and some parts of British Columbia and Quebec stay on standard time.)
https://globalnews.ca/news/10789053/daylight-saving-time-2024-canada-ends/
(read the whole article ...more empty promises....not going to happen)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promised "more water than you ever saw" to Californians, partly by tapping resources from a Canadian river.
"You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps and Canada, and all pouring down and they essentially have a very large faucet," Trump said on Friday.
Been listening to Singh give his presser after pulling out of the deal with the liberals
He is selling hope and taking on PP plans.
Sounds like he listened to Harris's plans and methods and doing it with hope instead of joy.
BREAKING NEWS
NDP ending their agreement with Liberals.
sounds like an election now
(my comment guess what services are provided in Catholic hospitals)
Premier Danielle Smith revealed the next phases of her government’s restructuring of health care in Alberta, including plans to remove Alberta Health Services (AHS) as the operator of some hospitals and turn facilities over to other operators like Catholic health care provider Covenant Health.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-plans-hospital-transfer-ahs
The leaders of Alberta’s two major political parties are tied in approval ratings, according to a new Leger poll, which also indicates a majority of Albertans do not want to establish a provincial pension plan.
The poll was released on Thursday and shows premier and UCP leader Danielle Smith and NDP leader Naheed Nenshi both registered a 39 per cent approval rating.
Smith’s popularity saw the largest net negative change of any provincial political leader,
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