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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 29, 2024 6:11 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto entrepreneur Mohammad Al Zaibak is the latest addition to Canada’s Senate. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office announced the appointment today, describing Al Zaibak as a community leader who …
Read More »Cree scholar ‘in shock’ after being appointed to Senate seat
Margo Greenwood said she was “in shock” after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced she will become the newest member of the Senate. A professor at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, Greenwood is an internationally recognized expert in health research, specifically Indigenous health and well-being, says a press …
Read More »Bill with incentives for ‘North American’ electric vehicles passes in U.S. Senate
The new plan to encourage Americans to buy more electric vehicles built in North America, instead of just the United States, has cleared its tallest hurdle. After a marathon voting session that lasted nearly 24 hours, the U.S. Senate finally approved the new Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. U.S. Vice-President …
Read More »Vacancies pile up in the Senate with Trudeau slow to appoint new members
Canada’s Senate is nearly 20 per cent vacant after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allowed some seats in the upper chamber to go unfilled, in some instances for years at a time. Of the 105 seats in the upper house, 17 are unoccupied and some provinces — most of them west …
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