Minister says end of Liberal-NDP alliance unlikely to impact Indigenous issues | CBC News

Minister says end of Liberal-NDP alliance unlikely to impact Indigenous issues | CBC News

Will the end of the Liberal-NDP alliance make for a feistier partisan atmosphere on Indigenous issues in the House of Commons this fall? Gary Anandasangaree doesn’t think so. “I like to think that reconciliation is a non-partisan issue,” said the Liberal minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations in a sit-down interview this week on Parliament Hill in…

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Will B.C.’s massive new Site C dam on the Peace River have downstream impacts on Alberta? | CBC News

Will B.C.’s massive new Site C dam on the Peace River have downstream impacts on Alberta? | CBC News

At a construction cost of $16 billion, the Site C hydroelectric dam and reservoir on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia is the most expensive public infrastructure project in the province’s history. Last month, B.C. Hydro started filling the dam’s 83-kilometre long reservoir. The dam is expected to start producing power by December and…

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What killed 1.2 million bees in Lively? Ontario sting operation aims to find out | CBC News

What killed 1.2 million bees in Lively? Ontario sting operation aims to find out | CBC News

Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is looking into the massive bee kill that happened at Mikkola Family Farm & Apiary in Lively early in June.  Spokesperson Gary Wheeler told CBC News in an email that staff visited the property where the sudden deaths took place in late August.  They are currently “assessing the available information…

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Boy, 15, fatally shot during RCMP ‘confrontation’ after calling 911 near Edmonton, police say | CBC News

Boy, 15, fatally shot during RCMP ‘confrontation’ after calling 911 near Edmonton, police say | CBC News

The news that a teenager was fatally shot by police early Friday morning has shocked many residents in communities across central Alberta.  The 15-year-old boy from Samson Cree Nation had called 911 for help, alleging people were trying to kill him, RCMP said Friday. Officers found the boy in Wetaskiwin, Alta., a city just north of the First…

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Plot to attack Taylor Swift’s Vienna shows was intended to kill thousands, CIA official says | CBC News

Plot to attack Taylor Swift’s Vienna shows was intended to kill thousands, CIA official says | CBC News

The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency’s deputy director said. The CIA notified Austrian authorities of the scheme, which allegedly included links to…

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