Author: The Canadian Post

A Canadian woman living in the U.S. exclave of Point Roberts, Wash., died at home days after a fall because deportation fear kept her from travelling through British Columbia to reach a hospital, her son says. Paige Adamson, 61, was facing removal proceedings over an allegation she had voted in a U.S. election. A fall at home, and help she would not take Adamson called Annelle Norman, a community support officer in Point Roberts and a friend and neighbour, on Thursday night, asking to borrow crutches from the local non-profit Circle Of Care. Norman found her on her sofa in…

Quebec provincial police have opened a double-murder investigation in Rivière-du-Loup, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, after two young women were found shot inside a vehicle in a restaurant parking lot late Thursday night. One woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and the second died in hospital. No arrests had been made as of Friday. What police say happened The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said officers were alerted at about 10:45 p.m. on Thursday by citizens who heard gunfire. The shooting happened in a parking lot near a restaurant at the corner of boulevard Cartier and rue Plourde in Rivière-du-Loup. Boulevard…

Quebec Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon announced $28 million in emergency funding on Friday, October 23, in Montreal, to add more than 1,000 warming-centre and shelter places across 16 regions over the next five months, as the new Parti Québécois government moves before winter to help people living on the street. More than 1,000 emergency places for the next five months The one-time funding will support nearly 200 projects delivering winter emergency measures in 16 regions of Quebec, the premier’s office said. Close to $18 million is earmarked for the Montreal region, home to the largest share of the province’s unhoused…

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is Quebec’s 34th premier, sworn in at the National Assembly in Quebec City this week at the head of a Parti Québécois minority government. His swearing-in and the unveiling of a smaller, 22-minister cabinet complete the sovereigntist party’s return to power after the Oct. 5 provincial election ended eight years of Coalition Avenir Québec rule. A smaller cabinet built around experience St-Pierre Plamondon took his oath in the legislature’s Red Room on Wednesday, in front of former premiers, supporters and family, then presented a cabinet of 22 ministers, along with a president and a whip. The team…

The United States has made Canada a formal offer of assistance for burned soldiers recovering from the Oct. 17 fire at CFB Wainwright, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said Friday, almost a week after the training blaze killed four soldiers and injured 39 others. A formal offer of assistance for burned soldiers In a social media post on Friday, Hoekstra said the U.S. government has made a formal offer of assistance and resources to Canada’s federal government, meant to help support the recovery of soldiers affected by traumatic burns “should it be deemed necessary.” The offer concerns the soldiers wounded on…

Four Canadian Armed Forces members were killed and 39 injured when a fire that began on a grenade launcher range at CFB Wainwright, Alberta, during live-fire training on October 17 raced into their position after the wind shifted. Officials have since confirmed the fire’s origin and opened three investigations, but how it ignited, and why training went ahead, remain unanswered. What happened on October 17 The soldiers belonged to the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, part of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, and were taking part in Exercise APOLLO SHOOTER at CFB Wainwright, east of Edmonton. At about…

British Columbians vote on Saturday, October 24, in a snap provincial election Premier David Eby called on September 22, and most ballots cast on voting day will be counted by hand. Elections BC says the snap call’s timeline and logistics mean voters at their assigned voting places will be checked in on paper and tallied manually after polls close. Why most votes will be counted by hand Elections BC is running the province’s 44th general election under what it calls its snap election model, a scaled-back way of delivering voting services inside the short timelines of an unscheduled election. Under…

The Government of Canada announced more than $813 million for research on Friday in Hamilton, Ontario, saying the money will support over 450 researchers, 220 research chairs, new laboratory equipment and the hidden operating costs of universities and colleges, as Ottawa competes to keep top academic talent in Canada. Where the $813 million in Canada research funding goes Karim Bardeesy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, made the announcement at McMaster University on behalf of Industry Minister Mélanie Joly. The package is not a single grant. It pulls together seven programs, and the biggest share goes to the running…

The United States plans to remove its 50 per cent tariffs on a narrow set of Canadian goods, Maine Senator Susan Collins said on Friday, after she pressed the White House over costs facing farms and businesses in her border state. Ottawa said it was assessing the change, and full implementation details were not yet published on Friday. What was announced in Washington Collins, a Republican facing a close re-election fight in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, had urged the White House to act on tariff costs hitting companies and farmers in Maine. Washington’s move, as reported on Friday, covers…

Prime Minister Mark Carney said in Istanbul on Friday, October 23, that Canada has no intention of interfering in the November 3 US midterm elections, rejected American accusations of planned interference as meritless, criticised Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, and said Ottawa is in no rush to sign a trade deal with Washington. Carney rejects the interference claims in Istanbul “There is no merit to these claims,” Carney told reporters during the visit to Türkiye. “I’m disappointed their envoy sees that as his role to make these suggestions.” Carney said Canada had no intention of interfering in the November 3 elections, which…