With a fourth defection to the Liberal benches on Wednesday and three byelections called for mid-April, the federal Liberals are likely on the verge of a parliamentary majority. Victories in two of three April 13 byelections will secure a razor-thin Liberal majority government of 172 seats. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the three byelections in a statement from the PMO on March 8. Bill Blair, also a former Liberal MP and minister of national defence, left the riding of Scarborough Southwest vacant, when he was appointed Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom. But without the vote of the present holder of the office, Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia, a Liberal majority of one still means a deadlock.

luckily we locked in a 1.8% fixed rate 4 years ago, so still reaping the benefits of that for another year. After three years the money becomes her property and can be removed at her lower tax rate (or maybe no tax, if she’s still at home). Maybe more, depending on the clumsy Iran war, the brewing energy debacle and the likely resurgence of inflation and interest rates – maybe even stagflation. Did you consider dumping your bonus against the home loan principal to blunt the impact of a doubling in the rate? So given the reality of dropping to a single-income family with three dependents and a serious mortgage renewal looming, is this the best use of that windfall bonus money?

As the Ontario government continues to push for development in northern Ontario, an Anishinaabe First Nation in the region is praising a mining company for “demonstrating true reconciliation” by agreeing to withdraw from an area in the community’s traditional territory. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg says it’s not opposed to development, but it must be done on the community’s terms. You gotta try to make them understand why it's a good thing to return the land.”Private citizens returned land to Biigtigong Nishnaabeg last summer, he added. “They know that true reconciliation means the return of some of the land.”‘There's a little bit of a trade off’About 450 people live in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, located just over 300 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay off the Trans-Canada highway. As prospectors continue to stake claims all across the north, Biigtigong Nishnaabeg says there’s lessons to be learned from Landore’s approach.

“Both incidents took place at a time when the buildings were empty and no community members were present,” the city’s Jewish Security Network (JSN) said in a community security update at the time. “Canada’s Jewish community is anxious, fearful, and those feelings are quite justified,” Anandasangaree said. When you attack a single group of Canadians, and in this case, Jewish Canadians, you attack all Canadians, you attack the very fabric of our society,” he added. But CIJA CEO Noah Shack argued that the Canada Community Security Program still needs significant improvement, such as additional funding and faster distribution of monies. “The level of security now required to protect Jewish Canadians in Canada is shocking.

This article originally appeared in the National Post. Freya India is precisely the kind of person the sexual revolution was supposed to have liberated: young, raised secular and formed by today’s liberal culture. Across the western world, marriage rates are plummeting, fertility is perilously low, and loneliness and depression rampant. Never has there been such robust data on the benefits of marriage and family for mothers, fathers, and children alike. ***TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE, VISIT THE NATIONAL POST HERE***

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) also spiked above US$119.48 per barrel, up from about US$70 before the war began on 28 February, then dropped in tandem. BNN Bloomberg reports that on Tuesday both Brent and WTI fell about 15 percent – to US$84.73 and US$80.31 respectively – after US President Donald Trump predicted the war with Iran could end soon, which traders read as limiting supply disruption. Reuters said that by early Wednesday, WTI had rebounded 3.5 percent to US$86.33 after an 11 percent plunge the day before, while Brent traded in the high US$80s. Another Reuters report said oil eased again after the Wall Street Journal reported the International Energy Agency had proposed the largest release of reserves in its history. CBC News reports that the conflict has already created “the largest oil supply shock ever,” citing Cornell University historian Nicholas Mulder, who estimates Gulf producers are shutting in “roughly three to four times as many barrels of oil” as during the 1973 and 1979 crises.

OTTAWA — Nunavut MP Lori Idlout is crossing the floor to join the Liberals. Idlout’s defection now places Carney within striking distance of securing a majority government, with 170 seats in the House of Commons, just two shy of a majority. Neither Carney’s office, the Liberal party, nor Idlout herself had yet to officially comment on her move before Davies did, suggesting the NDP got ahead of whatever plan the Liberals had for announcing it. “I’ve worked alongside (Lori Idlout) for many years and know the value she brings,” Justice Minister Sean Fraser wrote on X Tuesday night. During last year’s election, she won her riding by fewer than 100 votes, with the Liberals in close second.

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People as young as 45 should be invited to provincial and territorial programs to screen for colorectal cancer, the Canadian Cancer Society urged on Wednesday. The call follows a news conference Tuesday on Parliament Hill, where colorectal cancer advocates from across the country also urged that the screening age be lowered. Higher cancer rates in younger adults are an indicator that colorectal cancer screening needs to start earlier, said Brandon Purcell, advocacy manager of prevention and early detection at the Canadian Cancer Society in Ottawa. He says they often tell him that they, too, had symptoms of colorectal cancer, but had a hard time getting a cancer diagnosis. Lowering screening age overdue, doctor saysDr. Shady Ashamalla, who operates on young adult patients with colon and rectal cancers at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, says lowering the colorectal screening age is overdue.

OTTAWA — Nunavut MP Lori Idlout said “it wasn’t just one thing” that caused her to cross the floor from the NDP to the governing Liberals but “a variety of many things” that made the move appealing. “I’m very honoured to be welcoming Lori Idlout to our caucus,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney, before the Liberal caucus meeting. Some NDP MPs briefly responded to reporters’ questions as they arrived at a party caucus meeting on Tuesday morning. Canadians are about to learn that real quick,” said NDP MP Gord Johns. And the NDP will fight on,” said NDP MP Jenny Kwan.

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