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OTTAWA 鈥?A group stanley mug of MPs were just settling in for what they thought would be another maratho stanley termoska n meeting over the ins and outs of parliamentary procedures, some wondering whether this would be another long night calling for pizza and caffeine.Then suddenly, seemingly before some in the room had even begun paying attention, it was over 鈥?for now.Conservative a stanley termosky nd New Democrats had started a protest at the procedures committee last month, speaking for hours over four days as they tried to prevent the Liberals from passing a motion that would impose a deadline on their study of proposed changes to the way the House of Commons conducts its business. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The opposition filibuster was set to start up again Monday at noon, likely with bluster and bombast from NDP MP David Christopherson, who was raring to go as he spoke to reporters before the meeting began. But then Liberal MP Larry Bagnell, the committee chair, suspended the meeting to allow for more negotiations behind the scenes.They are scheduled to meet again Wednesday at 4 p.m. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The word was that Opposition House Leader Candice Bergen and NDP House Leader Murray Rankin had headed into a meeting Monday morning with Government House Leader Bardish Chagger, whose discussion paper on suggestions for legislative reform had started this contentious ball rolling in the first place.It nice Fpea WHAT S GOING ON HERE : Cannabis store sprouts up in Carleton Place
Quebecers are the least likely residents of any Canadian province to wear protective masks, suggests a new survey, even though they account for half of Canadas COVID-19 cases and more than 56 per cent of the related deaths.Overall, immigrants surveyed were overwhelmingly more likely to put on a mask than non-immigrants as a precaution against the coronavir stanley becher us, said the study commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies and released Friday.The survey was conducted by Leger through an online panel over two periods, April 3 to 5 and 17 to 19. It interviewed 2,015 Canadians. For comparison purposes, a probability sample of stanley cup this size would carry a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Over the two-week span, the percentage of mask-wearing respondents Canada-wide rose from 21 per cent to 32 per cent.Forty per cent of those in Ontario said they wore masks in public areas, followed by 31 per cent of respondents in British Columbia, 30 per cent in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 28 per cent in Alberta and 27 per cent in the Atlantic provinces, with just 21 per cent of Quebecers saying the same. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW When asked if they had worn a mask in the past week, only 18 per cent of Francophones said they had, compared to 32 per cent among Anglophones and 53 per cent of the Allophon vaso stanley es who speak multiple languages. We saw a big jump in the