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Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly will hold a news conference to explain how the federal government will help get Canadians out of harm's way as a war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza rages on for a fifth day.
Holland, who was shuffled into the health portfolio this summer during what many advocates have called a crisis in health care, as health workers struggle to keep the provincial and territorial systems afloat. The meeting in Prince Edward Island comes a day after British Columbia signed the first bilateral funding agreement with Ottawa as part of that accord.The criminal trial of two prominent"Freedom Convoy" organizers is expected to resume today with a ruling on whether the court will hear testimony from local Ottawa residents.
The Crown has maintained that it prefers to call its case as it sees fit, and wants local witnesses to tell the court how disruption, intimidation and obstructions caused by the protest manifested on the streets.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit areas ravaged during a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories today.
Around 20 people have returned, but many remain elsewhere in the territory and other parts of Canada after their homes were destroyed. These are among several unsettling vignettes in the latest, more revealing version of a September 1986 study prepared for a landmark federal commission of inquiry on war crimes.
"There's a huge amount of protection work that needs to be done that isn't happening, so you can say it's in a crisis mode," he said in an interview.
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