Bloc won't hold Liberals 'hostage' over seniors' benefits: cabinet minister
Liberal cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault says the Liberals will not be 'held hostage' by the Bloc Quebecois' demand to expand Old Age Security to more seniors.
The Yukon government says mercury levels that "exceeded the water quality objective" were found in a creek near the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed, causing a torrent of cyanide-contaminated rock to escape in June.
A statement from the government says high levels of cyanide and dissolved metals continue to be detected in the groundwater at testing sites closest to the Eagle Gold mine slide where millions of tonnes of ore was released.
The statement Friday says officials aren't seeing unsafe levels of cyanide in the downstream environment, but on Sept. 24 and 26, "the mercury level exceeded the water quality objective at one monitoring station" south of the site.
The statement says the government is gathering more information to understand the data and its impacts on the environment 480 kilometres north of Whitehorse.
Questions about the mercury were directed to the Department of Environment, which said it would provide answers to those questions early next week.
The mine owner, Victoria Gold, is in receivership, and the Yukon government announced in August that an independent review of what went wrong is underway.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 11, 2024.
Liberal cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault says the Liberals will not be 'held hostage' by the Bloc Quebecois' demand to expand Old Age Security to more seniors.
Toronto police have identified the woman who was allegedly killed by a suspected serial killer earlier this month.
A New Zealand man who disappeared with his three children in 2021 was spotted on a farm along the country's northwest coast, police say.
A man who stabbed a senior to death in Vancouver's Biltmore Hotel building in 2020 has been given a conditional sentence for the killing, meaning he will not serve any jail time if he remains on good behaviour in the community.
British Columbia billionaire Chip Wilson has put up yet another billboard message to voters, his third post outside his multimillion-dollar mansion in NDP Leader David Eby's own riding.
More than a month after the murder of Nova Scotia woman Esther Jones, her family continues to grapple with the loss.
In a rare occurrence, a bona fide great white shark washed up on a B.C. beach Thursday.
An economist says the latest job growth numbers in Canada are 'good news,' but he has concerns following Statistic Canada's report.
A woman from Montreal's South Shore appeared in court on Friday on charges of aggravated assault after allegedly scalding a 10-year-old boy with boiling water more than one week ago.
James Taylor never expected to be walking home with a bag full of groceries he didn't buy.
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A B.C. couple is getting desperate – and creative – in their search for their missing dog.
Videos of a meteor streaking across the skies of southern Ontario have surfaced and small bits of the outer space rock may have made it to land, one astronomy professor says.
A unique form of clouds made an appearance over the skies of Ottawa on Sunday evening.