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Doug Schweitzer, when asked by reporters why Kimmel would try to resolve the issue by going to others but not him, did not answer directly. “Not one thing was alleged about me, my conduct, my office, the environment of my office," he said.

The silver lining is that crop prices are very high right now, Ward Toma from the Alberta Canola Producers said, so producers can sell half their crop at double the price and salvage their income for the year. 

Among his first priorities will be legislating or regulating an emissions cap on oil and gas, and then setting targets to force them downward over the next 30 years, in five-year increments.

In the statement of claim, Ariella Kimmel alleged the harassment took place over almost four months starting in October 2020, when she was chief of staff to the minister of jobs, economy, and innovation.

"It is time for Canada to put down its legal sword," said Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. "The courts have already ruled, academics have studied, and First Nations have presented solutions to end discriminatory public services for their children," she wrote in a statement Wednesday to The Canadian Press.

The Vatican said in a statement Wednesday that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops invited the Pope to travel to Canada in the "context of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples." 

Three years after her son’s body was found in a creek near Billings, Montana, Marion Collin is still searching for answers surrounding her son’s death.

"A lot of people, I think, have seen that mental health has become a parallel pandemic and that we actually need to really dive in and make sure there is a mental-health strategy across all government departments, but also with the provinces and the territories," Bennett said at a news conference Tuesday. 

“One of the things people will be learning about Anita Anand in the coming months is that she is a world-class expert in governance, with decades of professional experience that she will bring to bear to make sure the Canadian Armed Forces … are worthy of the extraordinary women and men who choose to serve,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Concerns of western alienation growing amid series of moves