Birders have been seeing more cardinals in eastern Ontario and the annual Christmas Bird Count is one way to track it. Bernie Ladouceur peers through binoculars at Mud Lake Dec. 12, 2023, a few days before the 2023 edition of the Christmas Bird Count he helps with. Bernie Ladouceur peers through binoculars at Mud Lake on Dec. 12, 2023, a few days before the 2023 edition of the Christmas Bird Count. The 2022 Christmas Bird Count for black-capped chickadees in central Ottawa: 2,398. If you think you're seeing more Canada geese around central Ottawa, Ladouceur said the data backs that up.

The city of Regina's quest to find an official bird saw thousands of votes cast for the winner. (CBC - image credit)People who voted in a competition to decide the City of Regina's official bird are chirping about the results. Regina's new official bird will be announced on Jan. 5, 2024. When the weather is cold, Rachel Ling said 'Nutty,' her favourite red-breasted nuthatch, can look like a tiny puff ball. Some Regina voters say the red-breasted nuthatch was robbed in the vote for the city's official bird.

TOYS FOR TOTS DRIVEThis holiday season we are pleased to welcome back our Toys for Tots Drive in conjunction with our Holiday Show. If you are able to, we ask that you consider bringing in a new, unwrapped toy for donation. There is a donation box located near the SCBC office at Cassie Campbell from now until our holiday show on December 22nd. Thank you for your generosity and kindness in advance!

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St. Thomas native Emma Reinke and the Canadian Women’s Goalball team’s gold medal win last month at the Parapan Am Games has earned them additional recognition. The squad is one of 10 finalists in the Canadian Sports Awards’ People’s Choice Most Trending Moment category. Created in 2020, the Most Trending Moment Award honours a current or retired Canadian national team athlete or athletes who captured the virtual world by storm. In their last chance to qualify for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Team Canada upset the U.S. 4-3 in the gold medal game. Reinke says the Paris Games will be a turning point for her and her teammates.

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San Diego could be a top real estate market in 2024 if mortgage rates drop and sales pick up, a new forecast says. She forecasts the San Diego metro, which includes all of San Diego County, will see sales increase by 11 percent in 2024 and prices will increase 5.4 percent. The top market was Toledo, Ohio, which the website said would see 14 percent sales growth and 8.3 percent price growth. It was followed by Oxnard (18 percent sales increase, 3.3 percent price growth) and Rochester, New York (sales up 6.2 percent, 10.4 percent price growth). Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, was less optimistic about high-cost markets like San Diego.

Nova Scotia-based Canadian cannabis advocate Chris Enns has been targeted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) audit, which claims that Enns didn’t report $2.5 million in taxes from illegal cannabis-related income. CBC.ca reports that the program includes 80 auditors to target illegal businesses. The case targets Enns and 59147 Nova Scotia Ltd., which controls operations for the Grow Shop, an industrial park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. CBC.ca believes that Enns’ is being targeted because he was arrested on trafficking charges when police raided his cannabis businesses in 2013 and 2014. Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled that an Ontario “garage owner” was trafficking liquor and was forced to pay income tax on illegal sales.

This document will help guide climate policies and commitments, and a new stocktake will take place every five years. In place of calls to phase out fossil fuels, the document instead states that parties could take actions to reduce “both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner so as to achieve net zero by, before, or around 2050 in keeping with the science.”Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Japan, and Australia are part of an umbrella group of nations demanding stronger commitments to transition off fossil fuels. The Climate Action Tracker, an independent scientific project monitoring climate progress, said in a recent report that current policy pathways are unchanged since the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow. Though Canada is a member of the umbrella group pushing for stronger language in the COP28 deal, it has stopped short of agreeing to fully cutting fossil fuel use. In a statement released on Dec. 12, Canada again said it is committed to “phasing out unabated fossil fuels,” meaning those which don’t use carbon capture and storage for emissions.

Author of the article:canadian pressmia rabsonPublished on December 12, 2023 • 3 min readarticle contentCaroline Bennett, MP, then-minister of mental health and addictions, speaks in Edmonton on July 10, 2023. Photo by Greg Southam/Postmedia/FileOTTAWA — Longtime Liberal Carolyn Bennett says she is retiring as MP for Toronto—St. This content is reserved for subscribersEnjoy the latest local, national and international news. Unlimited online access to the National Post and 15 news sites from one account. Unlimited online access to the National Post and 15 news sites from one account.

The video is just under a minute long, and features a little boy, Salmaan. He’s about two years old and he’s got big, brown eyes and punctuates his words with giggles. Salmaan’s grandfather, Ash Khurshid, who is from East London in the U.K., has watched this footage over and over. He marvels at how much Salmaan looks like his son. And he laments the months and years he’s missed from the little boy’s childhood.

One of the most consequential questions of the 2024 U.S. presidential election has now been turned over to the Supreme Court. Without immediate action, Smith said, the dispute could drag into the next Supreme Court term , and remain unresolved before the election. Late Monday, the Supreme Court announced it had agreed to expedite consideration of Smith's request. Now, Smith is essentially attempting to turbocharge the process — to skip past the U.S. Court of Appeals and go straight to the Supreme Court. The appeals court dismissed Trump's expansive claims of presidential immunity from prosecution, concluding this immunity did not cover election-related activities.

Toronto, ON – (December 12, 2023) – The 2024 Canadian Premier League-U SPORTS Draft, presented by Degree, will be available for free to all viewers via OneSoccer and CBC Sports’ YouTube channels on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. The draft will be hosted by OneSoccer broadcaster Adam Jenkins for a second consecutive year. The live broadcast will also be available to viewers on the Canadian Premier League’s YouTube channel. The CPL-U SPORTS Draft will once again consist of two rounds, with eight picks per round. U SPORTS also provides high performance international opportunities at FISU Winter and Summer World University Games, World University Championships, University World Cups and various educational initiatives.

Minister mum on confidence in CBC head, says work to find successor begins next year Dec 12, 2023 | 8:51 AMOTTAWA — Heritage Minister Pascale St. Onge says the government will convene a committee early in the new year to begin searching for a new head of CBC/Radio-Canada. The mandate of the public broadcaster’s current president and CEO Catherine Tait, who was first appointed in 2018 and saw her contract renewed in June, is set to expire in January 2025. St. Onge wouldn’t directly answer reporters’ questions today about whether she still has confidence in Tait, saying the government’s focus is finding the “right person” to lead once she is no longer in the role. Tait’s tenure has fallen under heightened scrutiny after she announced plans last week to cut 600 jobs and not fill 200 vacancies over the next year to manage a $125-million shortfall.

The question of how and when the world should wean itself off of oil, coal and gas have dominated the summit in U.A.E. The majority of countries want strong language calling for the phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050, while that type of commitment is opposed by Saudi Arabia and some other large oil-producing countries. All of these countries need to understand what is at stake and they need to remind themselves because climate change does not recognize borders. A record 100,000 people registered for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai and an estimated 70,000 have shown up. Unless we actually acknowledge that it is a phase-out of fossil fuels that will save our planet, what is the point of us being here?