According to a staff report, there are now more than 40 tents at Victoria Park in Halifax. The recommendations are outlined in a homeless strategy report prepared by housing and homelessness director Max Chauvin, on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting. Establishing more encampments, temporary housing or tiny home locations on municipal properties like parking lots and surplus lands. Writing to the province to ask for its "immediate plans to create deeply affordable housing options" in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Supervision and support at the encampment site would "require an investment of additional resources including site and washroom maintenance for the Halifax Commons location.

Tamara Lich, centre, walks into the Ottawa Courthouse with her lawyer Lawrence Greenspon Sept. 5, 2023, the day her trial began. As their trial enters its second week, defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon looked to block the testimony of eight or nine Crown witnesses whose testimony he cast as irrelevant to anything at issue in the case. "If that evidence was to be called as part of the trial, then we're perfectly entitled as the defence to call a whole bunch of businesses that prospered during the Freedom Convoy." The Crown lawyer in the trial of lead convoy organizers says evidence from the people and businesses who lived through the convoy is 'critical.' One of the witnesses on the Crown's list is Zexi Li, a plaintiff in a civil trial against the convoy organizers.

Hurricane Lee continues to be a major hurricane tracking west northwest through the tropical Atlantic. Lee is then expected to transition to a post-tropical low as it makes landfall in the Maritimes on Saturday, with tropical storm force winds. The National Hurricane Centre track shows Lee turning north before heading toward the Maritimes late this week. Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget.

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An ambulance responding to an emergency was hit by a pickup truck — so the paramedics inside helped out after the crash, California officials said. A Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance was responding to a call when a pickup truck T-boned it while crossing an intersection on Sept. 10, according to a post on Facebook by the fire department. The pickup truck had two men in it who ended up colliding with a pole, getting trapped in the wreck, officials said. The two paramedics inside the ambulance were able to get out of the crashed vehicle and started to give medical attention to the “two severely injured” men, fire officials said. The two men were taken to a trauma center in critical condition while the paramedics were taken to a hospital for non-life threatening injuries, the post said.

File - The exterior of Prince Albert city hallCertain city-owned facilities and services will be affected by the strike, including at Prince Albert, Sask., city hall. Kiley Bear, director of corporate services for the City of Prince Albert, right, speaks during a news conference about the strike. Kiley Bear, director of corporate services for the City of Prince Albert, right, speaks during a news conference about the strike. Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 882 members hit the picket line in Prince Albert Monday, after a deal could not be reached between the union and the City of Prince Albert over wage increases. CUPE 882 members hit the picket line in Prince Albert Monday morning, after a deal could not be reached between the union and the City of Prince Albert over wage increases.

The guidelines recommend caution when using AI for things like public communications on social media or automating assessments, recommendations or decisions about clients. The government's new rules on generative AI are "not about replacing employees at all," says Treasury Board President Anita Anand. Carr said the government's new generative AI guidelines need some work. Things that we had to do by hand can be done in nanoseconds by computers using AI, she said. Chris Aylward, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says AI should enhance public service jobs - not replace them.

Community Corner On 9/11, Woman Says Halifax Opened Homes, Hearts: 'Remarkable People' Donna Fennikoh, who has Long Island ties, was on a plane on 9/11. According to CBC.ca, 40 aircraft carrying more than 7,000 people were diverted to Halifax Stanfield International Airport on 9/11. "Nova Scotians opened their arms and hearts to us," Fennikoh, who also spent summers in the Hamptons, said. Once in Halifax, Fennikoh said they were taken to the home of the Robinson family, with whom she still speaks today. "They became my family that day, my Canadian family," Fennikoh said.

When wildfires move fast, the people in their path are left with little choice but to flee. And wildfires are moving more aggressively than ever, forcing entire communities from their homes and leaving destruction in their wake. Three memorable wildfires have recently made headlines around the world for how fast they spread, how intensely they burned and the lives they claimed. Read the full report (new window)Michelle Ghoussoub, CBC News

September 11, 2023 —When Kathryn McKissock’s six-year-old son Cameron didn’t feel like playing in his Oshawa, Ont., backyard this summer, she figured he was just tired. Then he spiked a fever, and started burying his head in his hands. Cameron ended up being diagnosed with both meningitis and encephalitis, two dangerous forms of brain inflammation, and spent a month in a Toronto hospital. “They asked us if we traveled, if we had gone anywhere or did anything,” she said. “Something is changing,” he said, “either [through] climate change, the environment, and the urban sprawl — how we’re getting closer and closer to the woods.”Read here

Driving home to Winnipeg from a family event in Saskatchewan, CBC journalist Josh Crabb stopped in at a Virden destination – Eternal Springs – which was new to him. Now, he’s looking forward to spending the week in Virden from Sept. 11 to 15, to gather the stories of Westman. People from Virden and the area are invited to pay a visit to CBC Manitoba’s Westman bureau next week. Crabb and community connection producer Nadia Kidwai will be in Virden at MJ's Coffee Bar & Bistro on Nelson Street most days. “Having grown up in the parkland, it’s an area that’s important to me and one that I really enjoy getting back to.

There's been a big leap forward in a Newfoundland man's campaign to bring an imperiled Afghan interpreter to safety. The Taliban consider working for coalition forces treason, leaving interpreters at great risk, which means Canada owes interpreters a huge debt, says Camsell. He said it's unconscionable for Canada to abandon Afghan nationals like Joe and his family. WATCH I A retired member of the Canadian Forces says his former interpreter is on the run from the Taliban after helping coalition forces in Afghanistan:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget.

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FILE PHOTO: Houses are seen for sale and under construction in a neighbourhood of Ottawa(Reuters) - Canada's Housing Minister Sean Fraser is evaluating a wide range of options as he looks to ease the housing crisis in the country, CBC reported on Sunday. "There's a range (of incentives) that we're considering right now. Some could include potential tax incentives for builders to build. Some could include other low-cost financing arrangements," the report quoted Fraser as saying in an interview to CBC. Fraser is also considering removing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on affordable housing projects and dedicating federal lands to rental housing, the report added.

Woodstock library director Jenn Carson said the 2023 Woodstock Reads features Powning’s A Sister’s Tale. Carson explained copies of A Sister’s Tale and the $20 tickets for the Woodstock Reads event are now available at the library and Woodstock town hall. Another one excited to see Woodstock Reads and the promotion of literacy return is Catherine Sutherland, a former Woodstock deputy mayor, councillor and the town’s representative on the library board. Sutherland said the origins of Woodstock Reads date back more than a decade. The arrival of the COVID pandemic hindered attempts to rekindle Woodstock Reads for a few more years.