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Dreams do come true. U.S. President Donald Trump wished for Canada’s tax on U.S. tech companies to disappear on Friday, and by Sunday, it had. Mostly, there was a sense of surprise that the federal government would play such a valuable card this soon. The digital services tax (DST), which Ottawa was …
Read More »After Heavy Power Supply Disrupted In Many Areas Storm And Rain In Delhi-ncr – Amar Ujala Hindi News Live
इन इलाकों की बिजली गुल दिल्ली में आंधी, ओले और बारिश के कारण कई इलाकों जैसे बवाना, नरेला, जहांगीरपुरी, सिविल लाइंस, शक्ति नगर, मॉडल टाउन, वजीराबाद, धीरपुर, बुराड़ी में बिजली आपूर्ति बाधित रही। बिजली की लाइनों पर पेड़ और टहनियां गिरने से बिजली की लाइनें क्षतिग्रस्त हो गईं। लोगों …
Read More »Doctor operating safer supply clinics billed OHIP $2.5M last year
A doctor running a network of addiction clinics across Ontario, including an Ottawa location that offers safer opioid supply, is billing public insurance about $2.5 million per year. Dr. Suman Koka is the sole officer and director of Northwood Recovery, which has locations in North York, Hamilton and Manitoulin Island. It …
Read More »Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza
Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects of that are not immediately clear, but the territory’s desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water. Sunday’s announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the territory to more than …
Read More »Rising threat of nitazenes joins fentanyl in Canada’s toxic drug supply
The toxic drug crisis has taken more than 47,000 lives in Canada since 2016 and the synthetic opioid fentanyl has become a household name. But now, what’s believed to be an even more potent class of synthetic drugs is showing up in drug busts across the country: nitazenes. RCMP in …
Read More »Alberta government ‘deeply concerned’ with Bloc Québécois supply management bill
Though Bill C-282 has received cross-party federal support in Ottawa, Alberta’s provincial government says it’s not a backer of the Bloc Québécois legislation that aims to prevent Canada’s supply-managed sectors — dairy, poultry and eggs — from being included in future international trade negotiations. In a statement to CBC News on Thursday, Matt …
Read More »A U.S. port strike looms, and it would be ‘devastating’ for supply chains – National
Hot on the heels of a Canada-wide rail shutdown, a potential strike at U.S. seaports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico is threatening to further disrupt supply chains. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), which represents roughly 45,000 dockworkers at three dozen seaports from Texas to Maine, have threatened to …
Read More »Toxic drugs: More access to safer supply needed to prevent deaths, Dr. Henry says
More needs to be done to address the toxic drug crisis, according to B.C.’s provincial health officer, and she has listed some recommendations for the province. Dr. Bonnie Henry said in a report that B.C. needs to expand on its non-prescribed alternatives to the toxic, unregulated drug supply to save …
Read More »Does an olive oil shortage reflect bigger risks to Canada’s food supply chain? – National
For the last nine months, Emilio Pulla has been checking for weather updates in Italy. The reason Pulla, a Toronto-based wholesaler, is hoping for rain halfway across the world is that the lack of it — and the resulting hit to olive trees, and their buds — has been hurting …
Read More »B.C. needs new energy plan amid supply concerns, former minister says
British Columbia needs to develop a new energy plan as the province’s current power supply has raised concerns among experts, a former B.C. minister says. Former minister of environment, minister of Aboriginal relations and attorney general Barry Penner, who is now the chair of the Energy Futures Institute, says the …
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