By Murray Sherriffs
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Prime Minister Carney’s Liberals have won all three of yesterday’s federal byelections, taking the Quebec riding of Chicoutimi from the Conservatives and holding on to two Liberal seats in Ontario and British Columbia.
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A CAQ government would expand private health care, and allow doctors to work simultaneously in both the public and privately.
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Quebec Liberal Party Millard is not pleased by a PQ proposal to extend Bill 101 to CEGEPs, saying that that it is not the way to protect French. Toby Harper-Merrett, director general of Dawson College, says that it “…would be catastrophic to extend Bill 101, the eligibility requirements to Dawson College: that it would cut the eligible student population nearly in half and bring about the layoffs of many hundreds of faculty and staff.”
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Other notes from the campaign trail: The Parti Québécois leads in latest poll; Liberals promise 100,000 new homes annually; Québec Solidaire is promising to cut high school dropout rates in half; the Premier is not amused about another scandal involving information technology contracts.
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Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet has won his civil defamation suit against Pamela Groleau, who had accused him of sexual misconduct, and she must pay him $100,000.
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Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Police have charged a 30-year-old Quebec man with making a bomb threat at Wabush airport in Labrador.
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The trial of trucker John Labissiere—charged with assaulting Stephanie Ross two years ago on the Île aux Tourtes Bridge—is underway in Valleyfield.
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Alpha et Omega Multiservices and its director have been ordered by a Court of Quebec judge to pay $2.15 million and do three years jail time for not paying taxes.
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Showers / 23º today + tomorrow
