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Assisted-dying bill expected back in Senate after Libs, Bloc shut down debate By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Mar 11, 2021 6:15pm The West Block of the Parliament buildings (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
The government’s assisted dying legislation, which includes a controversial amendment to open the regime to people with mental illness, is expected to be passed by the House of Commons on Thursday night, after the Liberals and Bloc Québécois voted to shut down debate of the bill.
Debate of Bill C-7, the medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation, has forced the government to seek four extensions from a Quebec Superior Court.
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A WE Charity donor told a Canadian parliamentary committee that the organization replaced his plaque with that of another donor on a Kenyan school meant to honour his dead son, adding new allegations to a probe that has drawn in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family.
âIt feels to me like returning to my sonâs grave and finding it broken, open, defiled, and empty,â Reed Cowan told the committee. âI feel like my son was the victim of fraud.â
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After a nine-day run of daily high temperatures, mostly in the mid- and upper 40s with a record of 55 degrees on Feb. 19, area residents were stunned this week to see another 11 inches of wind-whipped snow fall in less than 24 hours. Travel conditions in central and western North Dakota were difficult, but eastern North Dakota received the brunt of the storm, resulting in the closure of I-94 from Jamestown to Fargo. This winterâs snowfall now stands at 54.8 inches. The record snowfall received was 91.8 inches during the winter of 1993-94.
Jeremy Trnka, son of David and Maureen Trnka, a sixth-grader at St. Joseph Grade School, has won the school level competition of the National Geography Bee, answering oral questions on geography. School winners are eligible to participate in the State Bee at the end of March.
2020 had its fair share of controversial projects but it also offered up not one but two Maggie’s centres, an award-winning hub for automotive research, a floating church and yes, hospitals built at breakneck speed. We look back at some of the achievements
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NHS Nightingale Hospital North West, under construction at the converted Manchester Central Convention Complex
In late January, at a point when most of us were still struggling to spell coronavirus let alone imagine it would reach the UK, you probably read a headline on Building’s website that made your jaw drop.
“China building hospital in six days for coronavirus patients,” it said, accompanied by a picture showing 35 diggers on a vast, empty site.