Where did all the Democratic votes go? Too much corruption? Time to leave? In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a city or county within a state. Advocates for secession are called disunionists by their contemporaries in various historical documents.
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) says only about a third of the 1,700 Canadians in Lebanon who have been contacted by the department and offered seats on outgoing flights have taken up the government's offer. In a technical briefing Tuesday afternoon, a senior GAC official said 100 people fled the country Saturday on a Middle East Airlines flight from Beirut to Istanbul, using tickets booked by GAC. Those passengers are still responsible for covering the $330 US cost of their tickets.
Another 200 Canadians were aboard a Middle East Airlines charter flight booked by GAC on Tuesday. The GAC official said there were "a few" no-shows, adding that's the industry standard for airlines. GAC officials say the department has three more flights out of Lebanon booked for Thursday and Friday, bringing the total number of seats made available on all five flights close to 1,000.
Owners of small- and medium-sized businesses will finally receive their long-awaited carbon pricing refunds before the end of this year, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced on Tuesday. The Finance Department says the federal government will send more than $2.5 billion to about 600,000 Canadian businesses in December. The payments will return a portion of the carbon price revenue from 2019-20 through 2023-24 to small businesses in jurisdictions where the federal fuel charge applies. The amount received by a business will depend on the province it operates in and the number of workers it employs.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office says her recent comments about chemtrails don't mean she believes the United States government is spraying them in the province.
"The premier was simply sharing what she has heard from some folks over the summer on this issue," Smith's spokesperson Savannah Johannsen said Tuesday in a statement. "She was not saying that she believed the U.S. government was using chemtrails in Alberta." Johannsen added: "The premier has heard concerns from many Albertans about this topic. In response, the provincial government looked into the issue and found no evidence of chemtrails occurring in Alberta."
Smith faced criticism after she spoke about chemtrails this past weekend at a United Conservative Party town hall in Edmonton.
The former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, has announced her retirement from the controversial Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. McLachlin, who joined the court in 2018, said she'll be stepping down from the bench "to spend more time with her family" when her term on the court ends on July 29, 2024.
Canada recorded its lowest ever fertility rate for the second year in a row in 2023, according to Statistics Canada. The country recorded a rate of 1.26 children born per woman, according to the agency, with British Columbia having the nation's lowest fertility rate at one child per woman. While the number of births stayed stable compared to 2022, at around 350,000.
Statistics Canada says the lower fertility rate is due to the increase in the number of women of childbearing age living in the country in 2023. "Canada has now joined the group of 'lowest-low' fertility countries, including South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan, with 1.3 children per woman or less," the agency said in a Wednesday statement. "In comparison, the total fertility rate for the United States was 1.62 per woman in 2023."
Hockey Canada president and chief executive officer Katherine Henderson says the organization and the sport are headed in healthier directions since she inherited a body in crisis just over a year ago.
Law that bars people who are the subject of domestic violence restraining orders from owning weapons is upheld.
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