Schools not planning to tune in for King Charles coronation
Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 27 Apr, 2023 11:34 AM
King Charles is set to be formally crowned on May 6th, but unlike Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953, most school boards across Canada are not planning to tune in.
Nathan Tidridge with the Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada says schools are missing out on a chance for students a chance to learn about the monarchy while still acknowledging mixed feelings about its place within Canadian society and governance.
He also says it is the perfect chance to launch conversations on things like the history of colonial structures and Crown-Indigenous relationships.
The Liberal government has confirmed it flew into Canadian airspace from Alaska before crossing back into the Western U.S., but it won’t say when or where the balloon was in Canada. The balloon was shot down by an American fighter jet on Sunday off the coast of South Carolina.
The premiers say Ottawa contributes about 22 per cent of what the provinces spend on health care and they want that to go up to 35 per cent. Trudeau will insist some of the increased federal cash go to specific areas including addressing worker shortages, improving data collection and reducing surgical backlogs
Ocean Networks Canada will study currents, marine safety and incident response, ocean sound information to mitigate the harm of human noise on marine life and ocean monitoring for coastal communities.
Officers responded to West Pender and Carrall Street shortly after midnight and discovered a man who was deceased. The victim has not yet been identified and no arrests have been made.
Thousands of buildings were reported collapsed in a wide area extending from Syria’s cities of Aleppo and Hama to Turkey’s Diyarbakir, more than 330 kilometres to the northeast. Some 18,000 people were killed in similarly powerful earthquakes that hit northwest Turkey in 1999.
Raj Grewal's lawyer argues that prosecutors have not presented enough evidence to find him guilty of the two breach of trust charges, and the Crown has failed to establish essential elements required for such a finding.
