It’s a mixed bag this Victoria Day long weekend, with sun, clouds and a chance of showers expected in the forecast, according to Environment Canada. The national weather service’s forecast predicts that the weekend will be warm, with cooler periods in the evening and showers likely on Friday and Saturday. The holiday weekend will start off sunny, with a high of 20 C during the day and a low of 12 C at night. Cloudy periods and a 60 per cent chance of showers are expected in the evening. Follow her on Twitter: @marissabirnieRELATED STORIES GTA What’s open and closed in Toronto during the Victoria Day long weekendSHARE:

Vijayapura: Talikot police have arrested a youth on charges of posting an anti-national slogan, on Tuesday. Ibrahim Murtujasab Mulla , 22, a resident of Hirur village in Talikot taluk, had allegedly posted a slogan saying ‘Pakistan Jindabad; Only Muslim nation’ on his Instagram account. “We registered a suo-motu case and arrested him. He was sent to judicial custody,” police said.

mortgage-rates-0517-phSoaring mortgage interest costs and higher rents in April helped drive the first rise in headline consumer inflation since June 2022, the latest data from Statistics Canada shows. The consumer price index (CPI) figures released May 16 revealed a 28.5 per cent increase in mortgage interest costs in April compared to a year earlier. That’s the tenth consecutive month that mortgage interest costs have risen and the fourth straight month that year-over-year Increases have topped 20 per cent. The increase in mortgage interest costs is accelerating, according to the StatsCan figures, with April seeing the largest single-month increase among data captured since January 2020. Total shelter costs rose by mid-single digits in each of the past the past two months, up 4.9 per cent in April and 5.4 per cent in March.

The bill also deals with wildfire management, sustainable forest management, and the roles played by government departments, renewable resource councils, and forest management committees when it comes to the N.W.T.’s forests. government developed with the intergovernmental counci l, a decision-making group born out of devolution that allows the public and Indigenous governments to collaborate on lands and resource management. What is the Forest Act? The Forest Act is a combination of the existing Forest Management Act and Forest Protection Act. The Forest Act also allows the territorial government to take action to manage wildfire and to protect people, communities and other values at risk.

Consequences From NZ Police Association Appearance On TVNZ BreakfastThe Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) is concerned at the unsubstantiated and incomplete evidence that emerged in an interview on live television this week with President of the NZ Police Association, Chris Cahill. Cahill’s interview on TVNZ Breakfast’s show last Monday included the misleading claim that a firearm registry would have stopped the killing of a dairy owner and the shooting of Police Constable Matthew Hunt. A registry mostly works on serial numbers.”Cahill claimed the registry would make firearm owners improve security, so firearm thefts would consequently decrease. “Cahill cited a mystery reduction in firearm theft in Australia following the introduction of a registry, although there is no Australia-wide registry. There is also no reduction in firearm theft: it increased over the decade to 2018, from just over 1,700 a year in 2007-08 to nearly 3,300 in 2016 -17.”[2]/ENDS[1] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/gary-mauser-why-the-long-gun-registry-doesnt-work-and-never-did[2] https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/sr/sr24© Scoop Media

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Gasoline prices increased by 6.3 per cent last month. (Alex Lupul/CBC - image credit)Canada's inflation rate reversed its cooling trend last month and moved higher, to a 4.4 per cent annual rate. It's the first acceleration in the cost of living since June of 2022, when Canada's inflation rate hit a more than 40-year high of 8.1 per cent. That's down from March's 9.7 per cent pace but still more than twice as high as the overall inflation rate. "Just because the headline inflation rate is coming down doesn't mean price pressures are softening," he said.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Inquirer says a weekend cyberattack caused the biggest disruption to its operations in 27 years and prevented it from publishing its Sunday print edition. The paper “discovered anomalous activity on select computer systems and immediately took those systems offline,” Inquirer publisher Lisa Hughes said. The cyberattack caused the largest disruption to the publication of Pennsylvania’s largest news organization — the company publishes The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News — since a blizzard in January 1996, the company reported. Mastrull serves as president of the NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia, which represents workers at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, as well as some suburban papers. The FBI in Philadelphia declined to comment in response to questions from Inquirer journalists, the newspaper reported.

Sue Smith is the CEO and registrar at Nova Scotia College of Nursing. (Jean Laroche/CBC - image credit)The Nova Scotia College of Nursing has received a flood of applications since opening up a fast-track process for nurses from other countries and other parts of Canada. The policy came into effect on March 29 for nurses from other parts of Canada and May 1 for nurses from the seven eligible countries. The seven countries were identified based on "much analysis of how nurses are educated," Smith said, including whether they're taught in English. Story continuesJanet Hazelton, president of the Nova Scotia Nurses' Union, told CBC when the policy was announced in March that improved working conditions and reasonable hours were also key to retaining newly registered nurses.

Chief Special Constable Tracey McRae presented data to the transit commission last week that showed special constables administered naloxone 48 times in 2022, among more than 600 medical calls throughout the year. Last year was the first time OC Transpo reported how many times constables administered naloxone, a drug that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The unit's calls can come from the public, bus drivers, other transit staff, emergency call boxes or payphones. Ottawa Public Health reported 94 deaths related to an opioid overdose in the first nine months of 2022. Data from OPH also shows there were 846 emergency department visits last year due to opioid overdose.

Procurement Coordinator will work under the supervision of the SCO Manager, providing procurement, & administrative support for RI’s NWS operations and Syria programming, including management of procurement processes,contracts and framework agreement. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIESDaily coordination of RI procurement activities of NW hub in both Turkey and Syria;Ensure that the procurement function supports the programs efficiently and compliantly in a timely manner. Have full understanding of RI procurement policies, processes and formats and apply them to all the procurement you manage directly or oversee them. Makes sure the international procurement orders are carried out taking into consideration the international standards and requirement on the shipment clearances. (PR tracker, contract tracker, tender tracker, procurement plan etc.)

Through this project, I’ve gotten the chance to be proud of my culture, explore it and share it. Jessica: I think for me, growing up here I never wanted to carry my culture because carrying my culture meant not fitting in. So for me, working on this project and talking about sharing your culture, and seeing the value in carrying your culture was very healing for me. It was important to have those conversations about the privilege of being able to carry culture. Before carrying my culture meant not fitting in, but now I see it as a superpower.

Toronto woman dead in Jamaica remembered by family as a 'free spirit'Duration: 01:43The family of a Toronto woman who died in Jamaica over the weekend is remembering her as a "free spirit" and a "beautiful person" who had a "big personality." As Catherine McDonald reports, police in Jamaica said 28-year-old Jaeda Pauline Whitehead died on Saturday after becoming “involved in a domestic dispute” with her husband.

The bipartisan agreement would avoid making the state the second in the U.S. to decriminalize the possession of controlled substances. So unless the compromise passes, drug possession — even of fentanyl and other dangerous opiates — will become decriminalized under state law. The only other state that’s tried decriminalizing drug possession is neighboring Oregon, where the experiment is off to a rocky start. “The state of Washington is a decade behind in having treatment providers and having adequate bed space and treatment facilities,” Abbarno said. The standstill put lawmakers against a ticking clock to pass a compromise before that temporary law making possession of small amounts of drugs a misdemeanor expires.

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