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Seems especially obvious with the geography and transit funding shortfalls present in both Montreal and Vancouver.

And this is exactly why the security clearances don't matter. May says it's basically a nothingburger involving former politicians while Singh is suggesting in involves current policitians and acts as if he's quite upset, but apparently is not upset enough to actually hold the government accountable.

Meanwhile Trudeau doesn't even believe the damn report and Joly says Liberal MPs aren't involved.

The only thing Poilievre having the clearance and reading thr report will be a 5th opinion on what has occurred; this is functionally useless to us as voters because we still won't know who's full of shit and who's not.

We, the people, need the names for ourselves!

We have no idea how many there are, and we already know about one, right? It seems like the simplest possibility.

The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit's at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local hospitals, especially in rural areas.

Executive director Natalie Mehra said it will follow their report last year, which recorded almost 1,200 emergency room closures in the province.

"The goal is to push the Ford government and stop them from continuing to shut down and dismantle public health services and sort of destroy them through privatization," said Mehra.

The province is budgeted to spend $85 billion on health care this year, she noted.

Zammit said she didn't see that funding reflected on the ground.

A wildfire continues to threaten homes in the community of Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.

As of about 7:15 a.m. local time Sunday, Fort Good Hope Chief Collin Pierrot told CBC News that no structures in Fort Good Hope were damaged in the fire overnight.

"They managed to hold it off," Pierrot, who is in Fort Good Hope, said.

Pierrot said he thinks about 300 people of the community of just over 500 have left, with about 180 of those going to Norman Wells and and others evacuating by boat to a fish camp.

He also said that the community's airport was still open.

Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military's ranks as the war enters its third summer.

New laws require Ukrainian men between 18 and 60 to update their draft data with military conscription centres inside the country — including Dmytro, who has been living in Canada for 18 months.

As a result, emotions are running high among those who fled the war and those on the front lines who feel abandoned.

Should anyone be allowed to run for Prime Minister of Canada if they do not have a security clearance??? I say no as it is impossible for them to even discuss many important things and they do not know the facts. #Canada #cpc #SquintyMcProudBoy

A B.C. coal mining company in northeastern B.C. has been fined more than $45,000 for repeated violations of the province's environmental protection rules, including the failure to monitor mine waste into fish-bearing water and failure to limit particulate being put into the air.

Conuma Resources Limited is a metallurgical coal mining company operating in the Tumbler Ridge area in northeastern B.C., roughly 660 kilometres directly northeast of Vancouver.

It mines coal from to produce carbon used in steelmaking at three different sites in the region, employing approximately 900 people.

In documents posted online, the B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change argued the company repeatedly and knowingly failed to comply with environmental regulations, limiting the amount of particulate put into the air by mining operations, and failed to monitor waste water put into local waterways on more than 400 separate occasions.

City officials said at a press conference Friday afternoon that five further locations require repair along a water feeder main that's drastically affected water service in the city. That means repairs could take another three to five weeks.

Sue Henry, Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) chief, called the situation "the most dramatic and traumatic break of the feeder main they have ever seen."

If water usage in Calgary continues at its current rate, the city could be forced to bring in mandatory indoor water restrictions, the mayor said Friday, calling the situation "urgent and catastrophic."

Jyoti Gondek delivered that message Friday morning during an update on the latest water main break developments as part of a plea for better conservation efforts from residents.

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Also the source data since news articles seem to hate including them: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240613/dq240613a-eng.htm

"Visitors are asked to respect posted speed limits and no-stopping zones at all times, as well as stay alert and prepared to encounter wildlife at any time, even when driving along fenced sections of the highway. By reducing speeds, driving alertly, and giving wildlife space and respect, you can help reduce wildlife mortality."

Accused killer Greg Fertuck is set to learn Friday morning whether a Saskatoon judge believes his claim that he made up a detailed confession he gave undercover police officers about killing his wife.

Sheree Fertuck, a 51-year-old mother of three, vanished on Dec. 7, 2015. She was last seen leaving her mother's farm near Kenaston, south of Saskatoon, just after 1 p.m. CST that day, en route to a gravel pit where she worked.

She has never been seen since and no body was ever found.

Fertuck's trial began in September 2021 at Court of King's Bench (then Court of Queen's Bench). It has gone anything but smoothly.

The trial moved ahead in fits and starts, delayed several times for various reasons, including COVID-19 and the discovery of the alleged murder weapon.

Fertuck's lawyers asked to withdraw mid-trial when they learned he had formally complained about them to the Law Society of Saskatchewan. That application was granted and Fertuck began representing himself.

The twists continued up to this month when, weeks before Danyliuk was scheduled to release his decision, Fertuck applied to call a firearms expert and ask for a mistrial. After deliberating, Danyliuk denied both applications on the grounds they were "ill-conceived and without legal foundation."

As their real estate business was failing, a group of Ontario landlords spent millions of dollars of investors' money on "extravagant" expenses, ranging from renting a luxury vacation home in Hawaii, to footing a $5,000 Miami strip club bill to flying on private jets.

Those are among the findings of KSV Advisory, a court-appointed monitor given special powers by Superior Court to investigate the web of corporations linked to four landlords:

Former YTV actor Robbie Clark. Hamilton-area real estate agent Dylan Suitor. Burlington business owners Aruba Butt and Ryan Molony.

Their 11 corporations currently have bankruptcy protection from over 30 lawsuits after they failed to pay back over $144 million borrowed from investors.

When George Kinsman left a Winnipeg hospital in 2022, he had no idea he was walking out a man who had lost his legal right to make his own decisions.

The 73-year-old retiree receives more than $2,000 monthly from the government for his pension and old age security payments — but learned the money is no longer his to spend.

Kinsman is one of over 2,700 people whose personal and financial decisions are under the complete control of the public trustee because a doctor deemed them mentally incompetent.

The Public Guardian and Trustee of Manitoba sets a budget for his phone, internet and cable. He isn't allowed to have a cellphone or a long-distance plan, meaning he can't phone his only son, who lives in England.

A CBC investigation has found Manitoba's public trustee system has a series of gaps that make it easy to fall into public guardianship, but difficult to get out.

A New Jersey man who was wrongly jailed after being misidentified through facial recognition software has a message for two Ontario police agencies now using the same technology.

"There's clear evidence that it doesn't work," Nijeer Parks said.

Parks, now 36, spent 10 days behind bars for a January 2019 theft and assault on a police officer that he didn't commit. He said he was released after he provided evidence he was in another city, making a money transfer at the time of the offence. Prosecutors dropped the case the following November, according to an internal police report.

Investigators identified Parks as a suspect using facial recognition technology, according to police documents provided as part of a lawsuit filed by Parks's lawyer against several defendants, including police and the mayor of Woodbridge, N.J. The lawsuit names French tech firm Idemia as the developer of the software.

Police in Peel and York regions, near Toronto, announced in late May they were jointly implementing Idemia's technology, which they will use to compare existing mugshots with crime scene images of suspects and persons of interest.

Until recently, a black-and-white photo of a woman holding her face in her hands was used to depict Mary Ellen Steinam — also known as Ellen Steinam — across social media and on the website of a marketing company founded by Toronto Police Service Board member Nadine Spencer.

Steinam worked as chief operating officer of Spencer's company BrandEQ for more than a decade, according to her LinkedIn page. Her profile said she was based in New York and had previously held other prominent marketing jobs at Nestle and Saatchi & Saatchi as far back as 1994.

On Facebook and X, she shared posts and photos of Spencer — cheering on her boss and BrandEQ.

But despite Steinam's online presence, it's unclear if she actually exists.

On May 29, the National Housing Council’s review panel on the financialization of purpose-built rental presented a report that highlights the urgent need not only to build more non-market housing specifically, but also to protect Canada’s existing affordable rental housing from financialized landlords through an acquisition program.

Yet, while the federal government has made available $15 billion in loans for private developers, only $1.5 billion has been allocated to Canada’s Rental Protection Fund, a program expected to enable community housing providers to acquire the kind of properties investment trusts target.

“The contrast is how much funding goes to open-ended programs that support landlords like Avenue Living, versus how much money is targeted to non-profit housing, which has a track record of delivering cheaper rents,” Tranjan says. “It’s a contradiction to have all this government funding that is going to landlords that engage in predatory practices.”