Today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced his party’s House Officers and that the NDP caucus has elected veteran MP Jenny Kwan as Caucus Chair and newly-elected MP Blake Desjarlais as Deputy Caucus Chair.
“I’m very proud of our team and I know that these MPs are going to work hard to ensure people have a voice they can count on Ottawa,” said Singh. “I will be relying on the MPs in these important leadership roles as New Democrats work to deliver for Canadians in this minority parliament.”
Lawyer Steven Kelliher, representing Victoria landscaper Robert (Saul) Arbess, says the court must weigh the importance to the environment of protecting old-growth trees in the Fairy Creek area of Vancouver Island as opposed to the company's economic interests.
Fendrikov, described by police as an avid hiker with significant backcountry experience, was reported missing earlier this week when he did not show up for work.
A report from the association and the Conference Board of Canada shows modest recovery over the last year, but it still projects an overall 54 per cent decline since the pandemic hit last March.
Investigators believe the collision was caused by an impaired driver who went the wrong way down Richards Street, before striking a tree and crashing through a construction fence near Richards and Pacific around 11 a.m.
David Shearing, who now goes by the name David Ennis, shot and killed George and Edith Bentley; their daughter, Jackie; and her husband, Bob Johnson, while the family was on a camping trip in the Clearwater Valley near Wells Gray Provincial Park, about 120 kilometres north of Kamloops, B.C., in 1982.
The country's headline inflation figure registered an annual increase of 4.1 per cent in August, fuelled by rising demand as more parts of the economy reopened amid supply-chain constraints for many goods.
