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• Lire aussi : QS va rendre 10 000 logements abordables • À lire aussi : Réduction des GES : QS mise sur le bon vouloir des Québécois Québec solidaire a présenté lundi son plan de réduction des gaz à effet de serre, qui prévoit notamment le maintien des primes à l’achat de voitures électriques ou hybrides rechargeables (15 % et 7,5 %), mais le parti créera une surtaxe de 15 % (une amende) pour les véhicules émettant 210 grammes de CO2 ou plus par kilomètre....

The Mount Chetamon fire in Jasper National Park is now estimated to cover an area of ​​6,150 hectares, Parks Canada announced Tuesday morning. The fire, which does not pose a threat to Jasper, is burning about 15 kilometers north of the city. Jasper, about 360 kilometers west of Edmonton, experienced intermittent power outages over the weekend with power going out again early Monday morning. The city is now on backup generators as Atco assesses damage to major transmission lines....

UPDATE: 14:15 Roofing work done on the Kelowna Costco building resulted in a thick black plume of smoke Tuesday morning. The Kelowna Fire Department arrived at the scene in the 2100 block of Baron Road just after 10 a.m. The first arriving crews entered the store and gained access to the roof from inside the building. It was discovered that some pressure washing work was being done by a contractor....

Posté à 5h00 Alice Girard-Bossé La Presse Crayons, stylos, surligneurs, tubes de colle : des produits chimiques toxiques et cancérigènes ont été retrouvés dans de nombreuses fournitures scolaires en Europe. Certains de ces produits se retrouvent même sur les tablettes des magasins québécois. Fin août, l’association de protection des consommateurs en France a publié un rapport alarmant : 40 % des fournitures scolaires testées sont fabriquées avec des composants potentiellement dangereux....

Mr Rees-Mogg, the former Brexit opportunity and efficiency minister, has been given a major promotion to business secretary in the new prime minister’s first cabinet. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the task of finding opportunities for Brexit would be “addressed across all services”. Taking on the role of Boris Johnson in February, Rees-Mogg spent six months trying to persuade his colleagues to ditch EU regulations and launch attacks on the civil service for working from home....

Prime Minister-in-waiting Liz Truss, who beat Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest, is expected to appoint James Cleverley as foreign secretary, Suella Braverman as home secretary and Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor. Kwarteng, who is set to become the UK’s first black chancellor, will take the reins of a post where three of his Tory predecessors were also from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. The expected appointments were welcomed by some, including former Boris Johnson adviser Samuel Kasumu, who resigned last year after a controversial report by the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities, which critics said dismissed institutional racism....

Denys Shmyhal, who was received with military honors by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Sunday, is the most senior Ukrainian official to visit the German capital in months after Kyiv accused the EU’s biggest economy of doing too little. Starting his trip in Berlin, Shmyhal met the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was unable to visit Kyiv in April because of his past support for strong German-Russian ties....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Army chief breaks silence on Ukraine war article It claims to be shelling Russian bases in annexed Crimea with rockets He expects war with Russia to begin in 2023 Ukraine must match Russia’s missile range, general says KYIV, Sept 7 (Reuters) – In rare public comments, Ukraine’s army chief warned on Wednesday of Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, which would create the risk of a “limited” nuclear conflict with other powers....

The 10-year-old has recovered from his physical wounds, but the burning smells still remind him of gunshots and the sight of many police officers recalls the day in May when a gunman killed 19 of his classmates and two teachers. On a morning many Uvalde families had dreaded, a new school year began in the small South Texas town with big hugs on the sidewalks, patrol cars parked on every corner and mothers wiping away tears as they walked down the sidewalk to the drop-off line....

Shortly after 5 p.m. on Sunday, Caledonia Region RCMP, Riverside Albert Fire Department and Ambulance New Brunswick responded to a crash involving an SUV and a motorcycle on Route 114, about 28 kilometers from Fundy National Park. Police believe the SUV crossed the center line and struck the motorcycle. The two occupants of the motorcycle, a 54-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman from Dartmouth, New York, died at the scene....

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A woman who started a multi-day backpacking trip through Grand Canyon National Park died on a trail Sunday, the park said. Delphine Martinez, 59, of Window Rock, Arizona, “became disoriented and later passed out” while hiking along the Thunder River Trail and could not be revived, according to a statement from the park. While the park did not release Martinez’s cause of death, it noted that high temperatures in the inner canyon were well above 100 degrees on Sunday....

Earlier, authorities had reported seven deaths in Luding County and 14 more in neighboring Shimian County to the south. Three of the dead were workers in the Hailuogou Scenic Area, a glacier and forest nature reserve. The quake triggered landslides and shook buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under lockdown due to COVID-19. The earthquake struck a mountainous area in Luding County shortly after noon on Monday, the China Earthquake Network Center said....

• Lire aussi : Le deuil est profond après ce carnage inexpliqué • À lire aussi : Ce que l’on sait de la série d’attaques au couteau qui a fait 10 morts en Saskatchewan • Lisez aussi : Mère de deux filles parmi les victimes de meurtres en Saskatchewan “J’ai perdu beaucoup de membres de ma famille [dimanche]. Des corps partout dans le réservoir, certains morts et beaucoup d’autres avec de graves blessures par arme blanche et des saignements....

Conservative sources confirmed that the controversial minister, a holdover from the Boris Johnson government, would act as a junior minister in addition to his new role as business secretary. Two Conservative MPs are already understood to have turned down the role of energy secretary, while incumbent Greg Hunts has not been told whether he will stay on and the future of Cop26 chairman Alok Sharma is unclear. Chris Skidmore, the former energy secretary, was approached twice by the Truss team about reprising the role....

The body of a 10th person was recovered by a good Samaritan on Sunday after the crash was reported at 3:11 p.m., Coast Guard spokesman William Colclough said Monday. Later Monday, the Coast Guard announced it had suspended the search after “saturating an area” of more than 2,100 square nautical miles (nearly 2,800 square miles or 7,250 square kilometers. “All next of kin have been notified of this decision,” the Coast Guard said on Twitter....

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Am Samstag gewann Domi Aegerter mit einem Podiumsplatz den MotoE-Klassentitel. Auch am Sonntag sprang der Schweizer wieder in die Energica und wurde Vierter. Als Belohnung für seinen Titel und möglicherweise als Vorschau auf das bevorstehende MotoGP-Rennen in Aragon erhielt Aegerter die Gelegenheit, die Maschine des verletzten Joan Mir am Dienstagsberg zu testen. Der 31-Jährige absolvierte vor der Mittagspause mehr als 30 Runden und kommt heute Nachmittag sowie am Mittwoch nicht mehr zum Einsatz....