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💸Quebec introduces bill to rein in excessive tipping amid cost-of-living concerns

Quebec has introduced legislation to curb excessive tipping, a growing concern among consumers faced with high prices and increased demands to top up their bills.

Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, who is responsible for consumer protection, tabled a bill Thursday that would force businesses to calculate suggested tips based on the price before tax and regulate how grocery stores display the price of food.

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🪖Bill Blair says he’s ‘optimistic’ about Canada joining expanded AUKUS

Canada is in discussions about joining an expanded AUKUS deal between the U.S., Britain, and Australia formed to counter China’s growing military influence in the Asia Pacific region, Canadian Defence Minister Bill Blair said.

Canada has said it wants to join a second pillar of AUKUS that will collaborate on new military technologies, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, but has not so far revealed any details of those talks.

#US #UK #Australia
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🤝Air Canada strikes last-minute deal with pilots' union, averting strike

Air Canada has reached a tentative, last-minute deal with its pilots' union over a new four-year collective agreement, the airline said on Sunday, ending a stand-off over pay and benefits and averting a near-term strike or lockout.

The airline was preparing to progressively cancel flights over three days and to completely shut down its operations as early as Sept. 18.

The Air Line Pilots Association said the deal would mean an additional $1.9 billion in value for members over its four-year term, representing a 46% increase over the previous contract that expired in September 2023.

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❌‘Drop the idea’: N.S. premier says province won’t accept thousands of asylum seekers

Nova Scotia’s premier doubled down Friday on his position that he will not accept any attempt by Ottawa to resettle thousands of asylum seekers in the province.

In a statement issued by his office, Tim Houston said the federal government wants to send nearly 6,000 asylum seekers to Nova Scotia, something he called “simply unacceptable.”

He also repeated that Nova Scotia is focused on its plan for population growth and doesn’t have the capacity to accept that many would-be refugees.

#NovaScotia #immigration
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B.C. to open 'highly secure' involuntary care facilities

B.C. will be opening “highly secure facilities” for people with concurrent addiction and mental health issues, as well as brain injuries, officials said Sunday.

All of the facilities will provide involuntary care under the B.C. Mental Health Act for people certified as requiring that care.

a news release accompanying the announcement said.

In addition to dedicated, stand-alone facilities, the province will also be establishing “secure treatment” within B.C. correctional facilities.

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🗳Another Liberal stronghold falls as BQ wins Montreal byelection squeaker

In another stunning upset for the Trudeau Liberals, Bloc Québécois candidate Louis-Philippe Sauvé has won the byelection in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun by more than 200 votes over the Liberals’ Laura Palestini, with all polling stations reporting.

The Bloc Québécois, the Liberals and the NDP were locked in a tight battle for the Liberal stronghold until early Tuesday morning. With the count so close, no candidate had yet conceded the loss after 2 a.m. local time. There were fewer than 600 votes between the winning Bloc candidate and third-place NDP candidate Craig Sauvé.

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Liberal House leader calls Poilievre a 'fraudster' and a 'bully' as Commons returns

Liberal House leader Karina Gould kicked off the fall sitting of Parliament Monday by calling Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a "fraudster" and a "bully" and accusing him of holding a secret agenda that Canadians won't like.

She said the Conservative leader's attacks on carbon pricing are an effort to "distract Canadians from his real agenda … because he knows that they won't like it if they find out."

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📉As Parliament returns, support for Trudeau at ‘new low’: poll

As the House of Commons gets back to business for the fall session, support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government has hit a “new low,” new polling shows.

Just over one-third of Canadians (33 per cent) approve of the Trudeau government, according to an Ipsos poll. That approval rating is down by four points since the last time Ipsos did a similar poll in June.

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🏠Freeland allowing more 30-year mortgages, higher values for insured mortgages

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday Canadians will be able to borrow for longer, while also increasing the maximum value for insured mortgages, potentially giving buyers more money in the housing market.

Freeland announced that starting on Dec. 15, the cap for insured mortgages will rise to $1.5 million from the $1-million cap today. This would allow buyers to qualify for larger mortgages without putting 20 per cent down.

On the same day, the government is also expanding the availability of 30-year mortgages. In the spring budget, the government expanded the eligibility of those long-term mortgages to new buyers who were purchasing new builds.

But now the 30-year availability will apply to both new buyers and people buying new construction homes.

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Trudeau is a narcissist.

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Trudeau’s government could face confidence vote next week

The first confidence test of Justin Trudeau’s government this fall could take place next week, and if the government falls, the country could be thrust into an election.

The Government House Leader’s office has informed the Conservatives their first opposition day motion is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, with a vote taking place on Wednesday Sept. 25.

Since the New Democrat Party ripped up their supply deal with the minority Liberal government, the Conservatives vowed to force a non-confidence vote at the earliest opportunity. The NDP has said it will now decide whether or not to prop up the government on a case-by-case basis.

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🎓More than 200,000 international student work permits to expire by 2025, making transition to permanent residency harder

More than 200,000 international students will see their work permits expire by the end of 2025 – many of them might not successfully obtain permanent residence status in that time frame because of recent changes in immigration policy.

No more easy ways to stay.

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🎓Canada imposes further cap on international students and more limits on work permit eligibility

Canada will reduce the annual cap on study permits by another 10 per cent in 2025 and restrict eligibility for international graduates’ work permits to better meet labour market needs, amid continuing public pressure to tame the country’s runaway population growth.

Two days after losing a seat in a byelection in Quebec, the Liberal government said it will cut the study permit application intake from 485,000 in 2024 to 437,000 next year, and keep it at that level for 2026. Changes will also be coming this fall to the post-graduation work permit program to align immigration goals and labour market needs.

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📚Alberta announces $8.6B plan to build new schools amid surging population growth

Premier Danielle Smith has launched an ambitious school construction plan to help relieve pressure created by a population boom.

The School Construction Accelerator Program will cost $8.6 billion over three years. It adds $6.5 billion to the previously announced amount of $2.1 billion.

Smith said the plan aims to create an additional 150,000 student spaces in the four years after the initial three-year push, for a total of 200,000 over seven years.

#Alberta
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📊New poll shows Liberals blasted to fourth place in future House of Commons

A new Abacus Data poll shows the Liberal Party scraping such new lows of unpopularity that they could conceivably be thrown to an unprecedented fourth place in a future House of Commons.

The survey shows just 22 per cent of voters still in the Liberal camp – the lowest ever charted by Abacus since the 2015 election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

But what makes the numbers particularly disastrous for the Liberals is that this new low has coincided with a massive surge in support for the Bloc Québécois.

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Pablo Rodriguez to quit Trudeau cabinet, run for leadership of Quebec Liberals

Federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez will announce on Thursday he will seek the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Rodriguez will make the announcement in Gatineau, just across the river from Ottawa, and will resign from cabinet to concentrate on the provincial leadership bid.

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🔪B.C. calls on Ottawa to restrict sale of machetes in bid to curb street crime

British Columbia’s attorney general is calling on the federal government to regulate and restrict the sale of machetes as a response to street crime.

Niki Sharma has penned a letter to Ottawa, asking her federal counterpart to consider classifying machetes as restricted weapons, as the UK does, which would allow police to seize and destroy them.

The move follows a number of recent machete attacks on people and animals.

#BritishColumbia
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🇺🇸Smugglers are advertising illegal Canada-U.S. border crossings on TikTok

A dozen TikTok accounts promise safe passage into the U.S. from Montreal, Brampton or Surrey, B.C. One of the accounts has more than 360,000 followers on TikTok and seems primarily to target Indian students living in Canada.

Some of the videos posted by these TikTok accounts contain testimonials in Punjabi from supposedly satisfied customers.

One of the accounts asked for $5,000 for helping to cross the border.

#US #India
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❌Sask. won't take asylum seekers if Ottawa attempts to relocate them

The Government of Saskatchewan has said it will not accept asylum seekers under a recent federal proposal to relocate them across Canada.

Saskatchewan's share under the federal proposal would be about 7,000 people. The asylum seekers are primarily from Mexico, India and Nigeria.

I would be concerned. I'm not sure that the public are fully supportive of those who perhaps have claimed asylum on some spurious grounds.

Trade and Economic Development Minister Jeremy Harrison said.

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Bloc to vote against Conservative non-confidence motion next week, avoiding federal election campaign

The Bloc Québécois says it will vote against a Conservative Party non-confidence motion next week, meaning the minority Liberal government will survive its first test since the demise of its parliamentary co-operation deal with the NDP.

Speculation regarding a potential fall election had increased in recent days after the NDP’s announcement to pull its automatic support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, followed by Monday’s by-election results that saw the Liberals lose a Montreal riding that had long been considered a safe seat for the party.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released the wording of a motion Wednesday morning that his party will put to a vote next week and he strongly urged the Bloc and the NDP to side with him and trigger a fall election campaign.

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