Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Walmart Canada says robots are coming to two Ontario warehouses, but jobs not at risk Walmart Canada is planning to bring robots to two Ontario distribution centres. Over the next five years, the retail giant says facilities it runs in Mississauga and Cornwall, Ont., will get outfitted with the technology already in use at its Calgary distribution centre. The Calgary centre has robots that transport pallets of merchandise and another device that mimics a giant arm that can u

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will be able to meet AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in Tihar Jail on April 15. Tihar Jail administration has given this date after a meeting with senior officials of Punjab Police. This meeting was held to arrange security in the jail and complete all formalities during the meeting of the two leaders. Currently Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is out of Punjab for two days. He is campaigning for party candidates in Assam. Aam Aadmi Party is contesting on two seats in Assam.

Gurpreet Singh Maluka, son of Sikandar Singh Maluka, who was a minister in the Akali Dal government in Punjab and his IAS. After the officer's daughter-in-law Parampal Kaur joined the BJP, Akali Dal President Sukhbir Badal has removed Sikander Singh Maluka from the post of in-charge of Halka Maur and appointed Janmeja Singh Sekhon as the in-charge of Halka Maur. Meanwhile, the Akali Dal is all set to release its first list of Lok Sabha candidates. It is believed that the first list may be released tomorrow. At first, there was talk of announcing candidates for 8 seats, but now it is news that

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Friday released the fourth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The party said in a statement that BSP's former state president Bhim Rajbhar has been fielded from Ajamgarh Lok Sabha seat while former MP Balkrishna Chauhan has been fielded from Ghosi. Mohammad Irfan has been nominated from Etta, while Sham Kishore Awasthi has been nominated from Dhorhara Lok Sabha seat. According to the party, Satchidananda Pandey has been dropped from Faizabad and Dashashankar Mishra from Basti Lok Sabha seat. There, BSP has given ticket to Javed Simnani from Gorak

In Faridkot, a large number of farmers gathered near Shahi Haveli on Kotakpura Highway in Faridkot under the leadership of the farmers' organization 'sanyukt kisan morcha', who were angry with the central government for not accepting their demands, and staged a protest against BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Faridkot, Hansraj Hans. Farmers tried to surround the vehicle by showing black flags in protest of BJP candidate Hansraj Hans, who had come to meet party workers in Faridkot. Due to this, the police stopped the farmers who came to ask questions outside the meeting place. In view of the fa

When Alberta hiked the province's minimum wage to $15 an hour in the fall of 2018, it was the highest rate in the country. But nearly six years and a pandemic later, the minimum wage hasn't budged even as Albertans face the highest inflation rate in Canada. Most provinces and territories are increasing their minimum wage this year, and those that aren't just raised theirs in 2023. That means one of Canada's wealthiest provinces is falling behind. Alberta now has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country. Saskatchewan remains at the bottom, at $14 an hour. Meaghon Reid, executive director o

Former IAS of Punjab After the official Parampal Kaur, now the former DJP of the state Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota is also preparing to enter politics. There are talks of him joining the BJP and contesting from the Hoshiarpur reserved seat. However, party leaders are avoiding to say anything in this matter but BJP leaders say that many prominent people of Punjab will join the party. Former DGP Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota is a resident of Dasuha village in Hoshiarpur district.

The parliamentary budget officer says Canada would need to build 1.3 million additional homes by 2030 to eliminate the country's housing gap. The newly released report looks at how many more homes would need to be built restore Canada's vacancy rate to the historical average. The report by Yves Giroux also accounts for the number of additional households that would form if sufficient housing were available. Based on those benchmarks, the PBO estimates that Canada would need to build 181,000 more homes a year than it currently does. The report does not take into account recent federal efforts t

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has rejected an application to throw out the conviction of Ibrahim Ali for the murder of a 13-year-old in Burnaby, B.C., over what his lawyers say were unreasonable delays in getting him to trial. Justice Lance Bernard made the ruling, with reasons to follow, moments after defence lawyer Kevin McCullough made his final rebuttal in the matter that could have seen Ali go free. Ali was found guilty in December of first-degree murder in the death of the girl whose body was found in Burnaby's Central Park in July 2017.