It comes as members are set to appear before a federal committee this week to discuss their handling of 2018 sexual assault allegations against several players.
In a release yesterday, the organization says they’re adopting a universal code of conduct to prevent and address maltreatment in sport, as well as a new reporting system for all complaints of abuse or harassment.
Hockey Canada says training on masculinity, consent and toxic behaviours will be implemented for players and staff, with more screening for all high-performance players.
The plan adds to an announcement two weeks ago that the organization will undergo a full, third party review of its structure.
Last week, more sexual assault allegations against some of Canada’s 2003 World Junior team were unveiled, prompting Halifax Regional Police to open an investigation.
We need to do more to address the behaviours that are undermining the many good things the game brings to our country.
Another day with no ferry service between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Northumberland Ferries says due to ongoing recovery work sailings will not pick back up until Wednesday.
Crossings have been paused since a fire erupted on M.V. Holiday Island last Friday. The emergency forced the evacuation of nearly 200 passengers and 18 crew members.
The ship is now expected to be out of service for the rest of the season.
Update: Don Cormier, Vice President of Northumberland Ferries Limited, issued the following update on the Prince Edward Island-Nova Scotia ferry service: https://t.co/UHLXnc2vOY
— Northumberland Ferries (@PEIFerries) July 25, 2022
The goal is for M.V. Confederation to set sail again on Wednesday, offering four round trips per day:
A strong denial on Monday of any political interference by the Liberal government in the Nova Scotia mass shooting investigation.
The House of Commons standing committee on public safety and national security heard from RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and former Public Safety Minister Bill Blair on Monday.
Committee members are searching for answers regarding whether or not there was government pressure to release the details to the public on the guns used in the 13-hour rampage that began in Portapique on April 18th, 2020. Twenty-two lives were lost.
Bill Blair, a former police officer and chief, remained steadfast in his belief that at no time was there any political pressure.
“I’ll reiterate that at no time did I cross that line. I did not direct the commissioner of the RCMP and I did not have any private conversation with her in which that was done,” Blair says. “The commissioner did not promise me that she would do this. I think the commissioner understood her job, and her job was to serve the people of Canada and the people of Nova Scotia, to give them information that they desperately needed and wanted with respect to the terrible tragedy that had taken place there.”
Former Public Safety Minister Bill Blair. (Source: CPAC)
The allegations surfaced last month when handwritten notes penned by RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell during an April 28th meeting with Lucki were released in a report published by the mass casualty commission.
The notes indicated Lucki was upset the details were not included in a press conference citing a “promise” made to the Prime Minister’s Office and Blair, ahead of the Liberal government’s impending gun control legislation.
Cumberland/Colchester MP Dr. Stephen Ellis, who is the Conservative shadow minister for public safety and member of the committee, says the goal of today’s meeting is to get answers.
“All of this leads us to believe that there are back-room deals, and a lack of political integrity from the Liberal government on how they deal with the RCMP,” says Ellis.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also denied the allegations. Blair was moved to the Emergency Preparedness portfolio last October.
“I want to be very clear. I did not direct the RCMP. I did not direct them in their operations or in their communications,” Blair says.
RCMP cruisers parked in front of Portapique Beach Road during the NS mass shooting that claimed 22 lives in April 2020.
Meantime, Lucki says there was, of course, pressure given it was the worst mass shooting in Canada’s history. She says there was also frustration over the media reporting details before police regarding the number of fatalities and even the background of the perpetrator, for example.
She explained that did not mean there was interference on a political level.
“First of all, there was pressure for every single bit of information related to this incident, the number of deceased, where the deceased were located, who the deceased were, the background of the deceased, the perpetrator, the background of the perpetrator, the perpetrator’s common-law spouse … it went on and on,” Lucki says. “It was relentless, especially from the media.”
She was questioned on why in the days after the mass shooting she pivoted from not wanting details on the firearms to be released due to the active nature of the investigation to calling for the information to be made public. Lucki says it was due to the fact that the details were changing rapidly, even hourly, when it came to the investigation.
She says at every press conference new information would be released.
Lucki believes the allegations stem from miscommunication, adding she’s a calm person who at no time got upset that the details were not given out.
“There were a lot of issues we were having with the flow of communication. Whether or not it was released was not my concern. Somebody asked me if it was going to be a part of it. I asked them, and they said yes, and it wasn’t,” Lucki says. “We were getting criticized by the media at every angle for the lack of timely information.”
Two hearings will be held to hold Rogers Communications accountable for the outage that affected Canadians coast to coast.
For more than 15 hours, Rogers (Fido and Chatr) networks of cellphones, internet and more were down. Even stretching to interfering with debit transactions, but most dangerously was the inaccessibility of emergency services.
Some emergency services switched to an email, which is an alternative– however, without online access how do you compose and email in the event of an emergency?
That being a major concern for the CRTC as it outlined 54 questions to Rogers to provide more information;
what was the root cause of the outage (including what processes, procedures or safeguards failed to prevent the outage, such as planned redundancy or patch upgrade validation procedures)
total number of people impacted by the outage, personal & business related.
how were 9-1-1 calls processed during the outage and whether they were able to be processed by other wireless networks within the same coverage area
These are just an example of some of the questions posed to the telecommunications company. An abridged version of Rogers response is can be read here.
Almost immediately after the outage, Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne directed all the major wireless providers to come to a mutual agreement on how they would transfer customers to another network in the event of another outage.
However, during its downtime this idea was brought up but Rogers didn’t believe that the competition’s networks could withstand a sudden influx of traffic if they just flipped a switch and moved over 10 million accounts over.
During the hearings schedule for Monday, July 25 2022, executives from Rogers as well as CRTC officials and the Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will be in attendance.
Shortly after connections were restored, Rogers and it’s subsidiaries announced they would be crediting accounts for five billing days. This despite a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Quebec seeking $400 for each customer affected by the outage.
Rogers did announce that they will be separating its wireless and internet services to create an “always on” network so that if cellphones go down, Wi-Fi will stay up and vice versa. Executives have also stated that they are working with their counter parts on agreements that would allow customers to switch to another network for the sake of making emergency calls.
It’s a visit of reconciliation, as the Catholic Church looks to help Indigenous communities heal.
The Pope greeted residential school survivors yesterday in Edmonton, alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Today, he is expected to apologize to survivors outside a former residential school in Alberta.
Pope Francis has arrived. He is visiting Canada to deliver the Roman Catholic Church’s apology to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Survivors and their descendants – for its role in operating residential schools, and for causing pain and suffering that continues to this very day. pic.twitter.com/bd07K1pXLF
Dear brothers and sisters of #Canada, I come among you to meet the indigenous peoples. I hope, with God's grace, that my penitential pilgrimage might contribute to the journey of reconciliation already undertaken. Please accompany me with #prayer.
Day parole has been granted for a driver that killed 16 people, many of them teenagers.
The transport truck driver, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, blew a stop sign in rural Saskatchewan and hit a bus carrying members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team in 2018. 13 people were injured, and 16 died because of the drivers negligence.
Families of the victims made impact statements condemning the driver, and pleading to turn down the day parole request.
Sidhu apologized afterwards, stating that he “…deeply hurt every one of them. I destroyed their dreams, destroyed their future and now I have given them unbearable pain”.
After a seven-hour hearing, the Parole Board of Canada granted the trucker day parole for six months.
The Board also said that if Sidhu follows all conditions, he will get full parole after those six months. His initial sentence was for eight years.
Canada’s inflation rate skyrocketed to a nearly 40-year high of 8.1 per cent in June.
Statistics Canada says that is an increase from the 7.7 per cent gain recorded a month earlier.
“The acceleration in June was mainly due to higher prices for gasoline,” the agency said Wednesday.
Figures show consumers paid 54.6 per cent more for gasoline in June compared to the same time last year.
On a month-over-month basis, prices at the pump rose 6.2 per cent in June, following a 12 per cent increase in May.
“Gas prices largely followed crude oil prices, which peaked in the first week of June with higher global demand amid the easing of COVID-19 public health restrictions in China, the largest importer of crude oil,” said Statistics Canada.
“Crude oil prices eased in the remaining weeks of June amid slowing demand worldwide related to concerns of a global economic slowdown.”
Passenger vehicle prices rose by 8.2 per cent as demand continued to outpace supply due to the ongoing semi-conductor shortage.
On a monthly basis, prices rose 1.5 per cent in June, compared to 0.1 per cent in May, due in part to the higher availability of new model-year vehicles.
Food prices were up by 8.8 per cent in June, similar to the year-over-year increase recorded in May.
Higher demand for travel-related services has been seen with the eased public health measures and increased tourism.
Prices for accommodation across the country rose by nearly 50 per cent compared to this time last year.
“The return of sporting events, festivals and other large in-person gatherings has resulted in higher demand for accommodation, particularly in major urban centres,” said the report.
Prices for air transportation rose 6.4 per cent month over month in June, following a 0.8 per cent decline in May.
Air travel has continued to increase amid loosening COVID-19 public health restrictions, with pent-up demand heading into the summer travel season putting upward pressure on prices,” said Statistics Canada.
In the history of Tim Horton’s Camp Day, enough money has been collected to send more than 300, 000 youth between the ages of 12 and 16 years old to camp.
This year, over $12 million in Canada and the United States was raised during the 31st annual Camp Day, held on July 13th.
One hundred percent of the proceeds from coffee sales on that day are donated to Tim Hortons Foundation Camps.
To date, over $237 million has been raised.
There are seven multi-year camp-based programs in Canada and the United States.
Guests can still support Tim Hortons Foundation Camps by making a one-time or monthly donation online any time at www.timscamps.com.
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