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  • Ottawa’s Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to get an Indigenous name

    Ottawa’s Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to get an Indigenous name

    Canada Global (Web News) The National Capital Commission announced on Thursday that a road in Ottawa that is now named after Canada’s first prime minister will likely get a new Indigenous name later this year.

    The decision to proceed with renaming the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway was unanimously accepted by the commission’s board of directors on Thursday, and Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said, “I strongly endorse this decision.”

    Once this procedure is over, Sutcliffe believes that this is something that Canadians and citizens of Ottawa can be proud of.

    Three council members from Ottawa wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in June 2021 pleading with him to help the federal government support an Indigenous-led consultation process to rename the parkway, which is currently named for Canada’s first prime minister.

    They sent the letter after ground-penetrating radar discovered 200 suspected unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, claiming that Canada needed to commit to initiatives of racial reconciliation “now.”

    When Macdonald was in charge in the 1880s, he approved the establishment of the residential school system. More than 150,000 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit children are thought to have been compelled to attend government-funded, church-run schools, where many of them endured torture and some even passed away. The final one of these closed in 1996.

    The National Capital Commission, a federal Crown corporation, announced on Thursday that it will interact with the public and Indigenous communities to debate a new name and to promote sharing and storytelling with the community.

    On September 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a ceremony and public event will reveal the parkway’s new name.

  • Wednesday will be cold, before mild snowy temperatures arrive

    Wednesday will be cold, before mild snowy temperatures arrive

    Canada Global (Web News) Wednesday morning in the nation’s capital was frigid.

    This morning, the temperature is 15 degrees below zero. Environment Canada predicts that it will be bright in the morning and cloudy in the afternoon. The wind chill will make the high of – 7 C seem like – 12.

    It’s predicted to be overcast and snowy overnight. Low will be -7, but wind chill will be close to -13.

    Although it will be significantly warmer on Thursday, a low pressure system is predicted to bring 2 to 4 mm of snow. The maximum will be 0.

  • Ottawa airport advises passengers to check flight status as U.S. flights grounded

    Ottawa airport advises passengers to check flight status as U.S. flights grounded

    Canada Global (Web News) Aircraft in the US were halted on Wednesday due to a computer malfunction, the Ottawa airport is advising travellers to check the status of their flights.

    Prior to arriving at the airport, check the status of your flight, the Ottawa airport tweeted on Wednesday morning.

    As a result of the Federal Aviation Administration’s breakdown on Wednesday, hundreds of delays immediately spread throughout the system at airports across the country.

    Despite the fact that airlines claimed they were aware of the situation and had already started grounding flights, the FAA ordered all U.S. flights to delay departures until 9 a.m. Eastern.

    Two planes, one on Air Canada and one on United Airlines, were delayed to Newark on Wednesday morning, according to the Ottawa airport’s departures page.

    The FAA decided that the safety system affected by the overnight outage was fully restored, and the nationwide ground stop will be removed immediately, according to a tweet from U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

  • Trudeau will hold a virtual news conference today about struggling children’s hospitals

    Trudeau will hold a virtual news conference today about struggling children’s hospitals

    Canada Global (web news) Canada’s premiers will hold a news conference in Winnipeg. Children’s hospitals are struggling due to the increasing number of sick children.

    Hospitals across the country are having to cancel some surgeries and even essential appointments as the number of children admitted to the hospital has increased and hospitals are having to re-instruct their staff. Many posts are lying vacant in hospitals and in such a situation cases of respiratory disease RSV, influenza and covid-19 are also being found more in children.

    Due to staff shortages in Ottawa, two teams of Canadian Red Cross workers are relieving staff by alternating overnight shifts at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Not only here, the situation is so bad that many patients are being referred to adult health care facilities for treatment.

    A Calgary pediatric clinic has been temporarily closed as staff have to be transferred to a children’s hospital. Looking at the poor condition of health care across the country, there is a demand to improve it.

  • The Canadian government will introduce a childcare bill today

    The Canadian government will introduce a childcare bill today

    Canada Global tv (Web News) Family Minister Kareena Gould is expected to introduce a bill today to further strengthen child care in Canada.

    The bill will also determine Ottawa’s long-term role in the care system.

    The Liberal government will introduce a national childcare plan by the end of this year that will cut daycare fees by an average of 50 percent by 2026.

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked Gould with introducing a federal child care bill to protect and strengthen Canada’s child care system.

    Gould said earlier this year that the bill would also maintain the principles of the provinces and territories’ funding agreement with Ottawa. This will also include reducing parent fees and creating more space.

  • Ontario passes bill to give mayors more powers

    Ontario passes bill to give mayors more powers

    Canada Global Tv (Web News) Ontario has approved a bill to give more powers to the mayor. Toronto and Ottawa will then be able to pass certain bylaws if only a minority of councilors are in favor of them.
    This will not give voice to housing critics.

    The latest bill would appoint regional chairs in Niagara, Peel and York provinces and strengthen so-called strong mayoral powers the government gave Toronto and Ottawa earlier this year.
    Home, preparing and presenting city budgets, hiring and firing department heads, etc. In addition, these new powers will also give them the freedom to propose and pass housing bylaws with the support of one-third of the councillors.