Starting in the Spring, the Liberal government will dispatch more than 800 drones to Ukraine.
In Toronto, Defense Minister Bill Blair said that over the past two years, Ukraine has made extraordinary progress in the use of drone technologies.
The Sky Ranger R70 multi-mission Unmanned Aerial Systems are manufactured by Teledyne in Waterloo.
The drones help operators recognize people, heat sources, and vehicles from a distance, even in poor or dark weather.
Canada’s mental health and addictions minister says stigma and fear are behind most of the criticism of safer supply programs.
Ya’ara Saks is responding to concerns about federal funding for safer supply programs that prescribe pharmaceutical alternatives to drug users as a way to combat the opioid overdose crisis.
Since 2016, more than 40-thousand individuals have died from opioid-related overdoses.
Recently in Vancouver Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was set to make a housing-related announcement along with Mayor Ken Sim and Premier David Eby.
Trudeau’s public itinerary says he’ll make the announcement soon, and then head to a local high school to meet with students before an event at a community center with seniors in the afternoon.
Last week, Eby said at a housing-related news conference that he spoke with Trudeau about B.C.’s housing initiatives and there appeared to be federal interest in what the province was planning.
Statistics Canada is set to release soon, its January consumer price index report.
The report is expected to show inflation slowed last month after the increase in December to 3.4 percent.
The Bank of Canada will closely monitor the recent report as it looks for more evidence that inflation is headed back to its two-per-cent target.
The central bank has held its key interest rate at five percent since the summer, the highest level it’s been at since 2001.
Canada’s financial intelligence agency and European allies are highlighting attempts to export sensitive technology to Russia in violation of sanctions imposed against Moscow.
The warning comes in a new joint advisory from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, known as Fintrac, and its counterparts in Germany and the Netherlands.
The agencies say they received reports from many sources about suspicions of such illicit activities after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The agencies discovered that the people and organizations trying to evade sanctions and export control measures in their respective jurisdictions were using similar tactics.
