British Columbia's longtime Environment Minister George Heyman says he's decided not to run in this fall's provincial election. Seventy-four-year-old Heyman says in a social media post that serving the people of his Vancouver-Fairview riding since 2013 has been a great honour, but he won't seek re-election in October. He says he will endorse former Vancouver city councillor Andrea Reimer to seek the NDP nomination in his riding. Heyman is a three-term member of the legislature who introduced the NDP government's Clean BC climate and economic plan to reduce carbon emissions while developing a g

The parliamentary budget officer is projecting inflation will return to the Bank of Canada's two per cent target by the end of the year and the federal deficit will grow amid weakening economic conditions. The budget watchdog released the latest economic and fiscal outlook today. The report predicts the central bank could begin cutting interest rates in April, given the expectation that inflation will fall back to target by the end of 2024. The PBO also anticipates the federal budget to grow to $46.8 billion for current fiscal year, which would exceed the government's fall projection of $40 bi

Police in Port Moody, B.C., say a man may be charged after he allegedly drove his vehicle into the sea as part of a livestreamed video. Const. Sam Zacharias says in a release that officers were called to the Rocky Point boat launch in the city at around 10 p.m. Monday. Zacharias says a call to police reported that a man was allegedly driving his vehicle into Burrard Inlet at the boat launch because he was being paid to do so as part of a video livestream. Police say they arrested the driver at the scene upon arrival, and the man has been released with criminal charges such as mischief and dang

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Shahbaz Sharif, who became the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time. Shahbaz Sharif was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday. He has taken the reins of the country for the second time after 2022. Modi said in a social media post on Tuesday that 'Congratulations to Shahbaz Sharif on becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Earlier he congratulated Imran Khan in August 2018 and Shahbaz Sharif on becoming the Prime Minister for the first time in April 2022. congratulated In May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had

Former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney's funeral will be held on March 23 in Montreal. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave this information in a release today. Mulroney was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada. He breathed his last at the age of 84 on february 29 in a hospital in Florida. He served as Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993. He is credited with free trade deals with the US and Mexico. The Mulroney government signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992. Air Canada was also privatized during his government. One of the most controversial moves of his governmen

There has been a big change in the politics of Punjab. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa has returned to Sukhbir Singh Badal's party Shiromani Akali Dal Badal. Dhindsa broke ties with Akali Dal 6 years ago and formed a separate party Shiromani Akali Dal United. On this occasion, Sukhbir Singh Badal also commented on the budget presented by the Bhagwant Mann government. While commenting, he said that when the votes were received, he said that he will give a thousand rupees to women every month, but today the second budget has been completed, but there is no name for it. It is not mentioned anywhere that

The Bhagwant Mann government of Punjab has presented a budget of more than two lakh crores for 2024 in the Vidhan Sabha today. This is the first time that the budget of the state has crossed two lakh crore rupees. However, the government has also proposed to raise loans worth Rs 38,331 crore during the fiscal year 2024-25. The opposition has termed the budget as a failure. Punjab Congress President Raja Waring while talking to reporters said that today's budget was a completely fictitious budget, in which there was no such thing for the people, nor for any person, nor for Punjab. Can say tha

Seventeen cases of measles have been confirmed in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia more than half of those in the Montreal area, while one Ontario case has been linked to a high school. Quebec public health director Dr. Luc Boileau confirmed 10 cases on Monday, almost all of them involving children and making Montreal the country's epicentre. He said only three of the cases were linked to travel outside of the country, indicating community spread in and around the city. Public Health Ontario confirmed five cases of measles and said all but one involved travel. The latest case

The Quebec government is telling Ottawa to show some respect and not ignore the province's cap on immigration for family reunification. Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette was responding today to an initiative by federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller to speed up the process of reuniting families with their loved ones. Miller informed the province in a letter that he plans to process more permanent resident applications in the family reunification category, even if means exceeding Quebec's limit. The delay to bring a spouse to Quebec is 34 months, compared with 12 months in other pr