Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Josh O’Kane
Publication Date: February 19, 2025 - 05:00
Saga of New Brunswick bridge highlights cost of interprovincial trade barriers
February 19, 2025
The Centennial Bridge that spans New Brunswick’s Miramichi River has been a construction site for years.The provincial government first announced its plan to rehabilitate the nearly 60-year-old 1.1-kilometre bridge, in the river’s namesake city, in 2012. Commute-grinding construction began in earnest about a decade ago, resulting in partial closings that have slowed traffic and exhausted local residents and people travelling to and from New Brunswick’s northeast, who are left with only one other crossing nearby.
Unpublished Newswire
B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne won’t say why the president and chief executive of British Columbia’s largest health authority has abruptly left the job after more than six years at the helm.Dr. Victoria Lee, who earned more than $450,000 last year, walked away from the troubled organization this week as the provincial government bears down on overspending and administrative costs in health care.The Fraser Health Authority serves two million people and runs Surrey Memorial Hospital, which has one of the busiest emergency departments in the country. Rapid population growth in the...
February 20, 2025 - 21:19 | Justine Hunter | The Globe and Mail
An Alberta judge has granted an injunction to block a ministerial order that has prevented children with special needs from attending school as a support strike drags on.More than 4,000 support staff, from educational assistants to cafeteria workers, have been on strike since mid-January over a wage dispute with the Edmonton Public School Board.Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides issued an order exempting the board from providing in-person learning to students with complex needs during the strike.
February 20, 2025 - 21:11 | Aaron Sousa | The Globe and Mail
Chantal Kreviazuk, the Grammy-award winning singer from Winnipeg, changed the lyrics to O Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off game against the United States on Thursday to sing "that only us command" instead of "in all of us command."
February 20, 2025 - 21:06 | | CBC News - Canada
Comments
Be the first to comment