Calls for a cautious approach to a massive energy partnership with Quebec have arisen in Newfoundland and Labrador. Concerns echo those surrounding the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam project, which faced years of delays and cost overruns. Critics urge robust oversight and environmental safeguards to prevent a repeat of Muskrat Falls' challenges.
Some in Newfoundland and Labrador are urging the province to take a sober second look at the massive energy partnership with Quebec announced last week.
Indigenous people in Labrador occupied the Muskrat Falls worksite in 2016, and Bannister worries the same will happen with the projects proposed with Quebec if the government is too eager to approve them. The New Brunswick RCMP says two people have died and four others are injured following a multi-vehicle crash in Moncton Sunday night.Canada Post workers are back on the job after a grueling four-week strike that halted deliveries across the county, but it could take time before operations are back to normal.
A judge's decision to stay the charge against a driver who hit and killed a child is causing some online uproar. Many of the victim's supporters took to social media to call for justice in the death the nine-year-old girl.Saskatoon police say drug decriminalization 'alone is not sufficient' A B.C. man convicted of the "intentional and ruthless killing of a bystander" while acting as an enforcer in the drug trade has been sentenced for a second time in the slaying.The union representing ambulance paramedics in B.C. is calling on the province to beef up security after they say a knife-wielding woman attacked a worker.Mounties have arrested a suspect who allegedly stole a car in Kelowna, B.C., before fleeing on foot and hiding from police in the basement of a home.
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