Sajjan, a former defence minister, added that the Canadian Armed Forces is 'not the best resource to deal with a lot of emergencies,' including wildfires. The federal government is expanding its existing Humanitarian Workforce Program — ... ...

Budget 2024: More urgent care clinics in $8.5 billion health spend

He said the $227 million investment in a further 29 clinics would provide more care in more locations. The government is also providing further funding for clinics in regional, rural and remote locations. "Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are ... ...

Budget 2024: Labor adds billions to state housing deals

A key element of the deal is a $1 billion payment to the states and territories to build roads and other infrastructure needed to support new housing developments, answering calls for more facilities for homes in the suburbs. Albanese said the ... ...

Jim Chalmers has navigated a steady economic course. But can he nail a tricky landing?

In the short run, he needs to pull off a soft landing " that is, a glide path to bring down inflation without slamming the economy into the tarmac " while looking to Australia's longer - term growth needs. Or, as he puts it: "I need to balance ... ...

NSW government will apologise to people punished under laws against homosexuality

Hornery has spent several weeks talking to some who found themselves on the wrong side of the law in NSW, and an overwhelming message came through: an apology from the NSW government is wanted, and long overdue. Hornery put that request to ... ...

Israel Palestine: Australia joins 142 nations in backing UN resolution supporting Palestinian statehood

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the vote was not about whether Australia recognised Palestine as a state but about showing "unwavering support" for a two - state solution . "This resolution that we have supported is about long - term peace ... ...

Immigration detainee released by Coalition accused of attack on Ninette Simons

The release of Tahami under a Coalition government heightens the public policy debate about who takes responsibility for crimes committed after detainees are freed. The federal records show that Tahami was not one of the 153 people released by ... ...

How might a Labour revival in Scotland affect the balance of power in the UK?

As a new poll shows the party ahead of the SNP in Scotland for the first time in decades, Sean O'Grady examines what this could mean for both Scottish politics and Britain as a whole. The change comes at a time of transition within ... ...

How 'The Independent' killed off Nadhim Zahawi's political ambitions

The 'boy from Baghdad' believed he could be prime minister, says Sean O'Grady " but his announcement that he is to step down at the general election puts an end to that dream. His departure from Westminster life, thanks in part to our ... ...

Canadian Blood Services apologizes to the 2SLGBTQ+ community for donation ban

10-5-2024
For decades the Canadian Blood Services, which oversees blood donations and distribution in every province and territory except Quebec, prevented men who have sex with men, and some trans people, from donating blood unless they had been ... ...

He fought this newspaper — and won. Dan Cohen, mainstay of Minneapolis politics for decades, dies at 87.

10-5-2024
Dan Cohen passed it along to a handful of reporters a week before Election Day in 1982 to help a friend running for governor. One catch: Cohen, a former Minneapolis City Council president and a Republican insider, couldn't be named. ... ...

Australia set to back United Nations resolution on Palestine

Ahead of the vote, Australia's former UN ambassador, Mitch Fifield, urged the Albanese government against voting for full Palestinian membership of the world's premier global forum. But in a call that underscored divisions within Labor over ... ...

Wakeley stabbing video not offensive enough to warrant its removal, Elon Musk's X tells court

X said it was happy to hide the video for Australians but eSafety also wanted the footage removed for Australians using a server that obscured their location. X said this could only be achieved by hiding videos all over the world, which it ... ...

No grounds evictions: NSW Liberal MP Felicity Wilson considers defying party to support Greens bill

Herself a renter, Wilson told the Herald she was "frustrated that more than a year after the election neither major party has progressed their commitments on crucial rental reforms". "I will support any good legislation that will ensure ... ...

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