Canada

Do you know a worthy Canadian for the 'Order of Canada' I have a few suggestions, ''do you?''

CUPW has announced an immediate strike, and postal workers are currently walking off the job.

The minister of public works, Joel Lightbound, has announced his intentions to implement all of the recommedations laid out in the Kaplan report, including permanently ending door-to-door delivery and the requirement to deliver mail 5 days a week.

Not sure how he expected labour to respond to 1/3 of the workforce being made redundant.

Keep it up, Mr. Carney. Every deal you ink is one less tie to the USA.

By 2050, the number of cancer cases and deaths are expected to balloon, according to a new report from The Lancet medical journal published today. Researchers say the trend is expected to play out in Canada, too — and health-care systems need to start preparing now to avoid preventable cancer deaths and avoidable health-care expenses.

In 2023, there were 18.5 million new cancer cases globally, excluding non-melanoma skin cancers. By 2050, that number is expected to grow to 30.5 million.

The number of cancer deaths are expected to increase even more dramatically by 2050. In 2023 there were 10.4 million cancer deaths. In 2050, researchers project 18.6 million people will die of cancer.

That reflects a 75 per cent increase in cancer deaths since 2024, say the researchers.

Canada’s mid-sized cities — those with populations between 50,000 to 500,000 — have long been characterized as low-density, dispersed and decentralized. In these cities, cars dominate, public transit is limited and residents prefer the space and privacy of suburban neighbourhoods.

Several mounting issues, ranging from climate change and the housing affordability crisis to the growing infrastructure deficit, are challenging municipalities to rethink this approach.

Cities are adopting growth management strategies that promote density and seek to curtail, rather than encourage, urban sprawl. Key to this is intensification, a strategy that prioritizes adding new housing in existing and mature neighbourhoods instead of outward expansion along the city’s edge.

City centres are often central to intensification strategies, given the abundance of vacant or underused land. Adding more residents supports downtown revitalization efforts, while simultaneously curbing urban sprawl.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4725491

• Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought to rally global support for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
• Russia is facing accusations of starting this practice when the war began in 2014 and ramping up the abductions after its full-scale invasion in 2022.
• Zelenskiy announced a tracing mechanism to collect data about the displaced children and urged foreign leaders to increase pressure on Russian politicians involved in child abductions.

Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought to rally global support for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, an issue that may resonate with the US administration even as it pulls back on financial and military aid for Ukraine.

The leaders of Canada and Ukraine co-hosted an event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly that focused on the nearly 20,000 children forcibly removed by Russia. The matter has previously caught the attention of First Lady Melania Trump, who wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin in August urging him to end the war in order to protect affected children.

“Putin has stolen Ukrainian children,” Carney said at the event on Tuesday. “To lose their child is every parents’ nightmare. For the people of Ukraine, it is a horrifying reality.”

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Russia is facing accusations of starting this practice when the war began in 2014 and ramping up the abductions after its full-scale invasion in 2022. Some children were forcibly separated from their parents, while others were taken after their caregivers were killed or captured. Still others were seized from state institutions. They have been relocated to Russia or occupied parts of Ukraine.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of war crimes. Some children have reported they were subjected to Russian propaganda and maltreatment while in the country.

Russia has sought to erase the children’s Ukrainian identity by restricting their access to the Ukrainian language and history, imposing Russian citizenship and limiting access to alternative sources of information, the Canadian government said in a background document.

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Canada and Ukraine have co-chaired the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children since 2024, and say some 1,600 kids have been brought back to their home nation. Canada believes this issue of “fundamental human rights” must be at the forefront of the international agenda, and it appreciates the US First Lady’s “leadership” and Donald Trump’s “engagement” on the matter, a government official told reporters in a background briefing.

In his remarks, Carney welcomed Melania Trump’s “powerful appeal” to Putin and the US president’s call for secondary sanctions on Russia’s trading partners.

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Carney’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, and Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska also gave speeches at the event, along with several European ministers and heads of state.

Happened last week and didn't see it posted here since none of the legacy outlets really reported on it and more evidence that Conservative has pivoted from low effort to no effort rage baiting for politics.

On Tue Sept.16th a Conservative MP made a post of them sitting in a empty room complaining that the Liberals were no shows for Justice meeting to discuss bail reform. For the record there is also 1 Bloc member on the committee.

He was outed pretty quickly for the fact that there was no actual meeting scheduled for that night as per the official site listing the meetings.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/JUST/Meetings?parl=45&session=1

Full Video of the rage bait: https://files.catbox.moe/v647q9.mp4

There was some subsequent retorts about how there's always meetings Tue and Thu, but it clearly shown the last one was Tue Jun 17 before they took a their summer break.

The president of B.C.'s Coastal First Nations alliance was unequivocal when asked if there is any possibility the group would consent to the federal government lifting the oil tanker ban in the area to allow a pipeline to be built from Alberta.

"No," Heiltsuk Nation Chief Marilyn Slett answered.

Slett added that no one from the Alberta or federal government has asked local First Nations about their stance. Nevertheless, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has continually pushed the idea.

Slett has let B.C. know where the group stands, and said she was "encouraged" to hear Premier David Eby point this out to reporters in Ottawa on Thursday (Sept. 18).

"There's no support from First Nations along the coast," Eby said in Ottawa. "In fact, nobody's talked to them, and this project is non-existent."

Eby also took a shot at Smith, who formerly worked on behalf of oil and gas interests as a registered lobbyist.

"Premier Smith from Alberta, she's an incredible advocate, because you would never guess that there is no private proponent, there is no money, there's no project," Eby said.

Proposals for new or expanded bike lanes are often met with fierce backlash, in a phenomenon dubbed “bikelash,” with car drivers reluctant to lose any street space.

Yet our study finds that the current imbalance of spatial allocation is so overwhelmingly in favour of cars that it’s possible to make substantial improvements to bike infrastructure without significantly decreasing the space allocated per driver.

After all, a key advantage of bicycles is their incredible space-efficiency. Even if all the bike infrastructure space in the city were to double, the proportion of roadway given to cars would not fall below 90 per cent in any borough.

Arc’teryx, a popular Canadian clothing brand based in Vancouver, is being blasted online following an event in China near the Tibetan Plateau.

According to reports from publications like CNN and the BBC, a multi-coloured fireworks display went off at the foothills of the Himalayas, which is what sparked the backlash.

Arc’teryx reportedly collaborated with artist Cai Guo-Qiang for the fireworks display. An official video of the display was later taken down. The blowback is a result of the potential environmental impacts on the Tibetan Plateau, which is a sensitive ecosystem.

Arc’teryx has issued an apology and published it on several of its social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.

In its apology, Arc’teryx said that the fireworks display “was out of line with Arc’teryx’s values.”

“We’ve heard your concerns, and we share them,” the popular Canadian clothing brand said on Instagram.

“This event was in direct opposition to our commitment to outdoor spaces, who we are, and who we want to be for our people and our community. We are deeply disappointed that this happened, and apologize, full stop.”

Arc’teryx states that it’s addressing this issue directly with the artist and its local team in China and will make changes to ensure such an incident does not happen again.

The clothing brand also stated that it’s mitigating the environmental and social impacts that this event might have had.

“We are grateful to our community for holding us accountable.”

BBC reported that the artist involved has also apologized for his role in the event.

The wider community hasn’t necessarily received the apology all too well, with a flurry of comments in response, including many in Chinese. Some people suggested that Arc’teryx has blamed the China team.