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A RAMADAN OF rELIEf
˹The righteous˺ give food, out of love for Him, to the poor, the orphan and the captive, ˹saying˺ we feed you, for God’s pleasure only, we desire from you neither reward nor thanks – Qur 76:5-9
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this is how Canadians would spend the proposed grocery rebate
been avoiding at the grocery store lately, due to rising costs. “I’ve been so hungry for watermelon and some fresh fruits,” Chartrand told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview on March 30. If eligible for the rebate, she may receive as much as $225.
“I’ve been so hungry for watermelon and some fresh fruits,” Chartrand told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview on March 30. If eligible for the rebate, she may receive as much as $225.
While Canada’s recently announced grocery rebate has yet to be implemented, Elise Chartrand from Embrun, Ont., already knows what she would do with the extra money. The 76-year-old said she plans to treat herself to some of the food items she’s
“I haven’t bought fresh fish in so long, it’ll be so nice to get a big piece of halibut … That should take care of the money rebate real quick.” While Canada’s recently announced grocery rebate has yet to be implemented, Elise Chartrand from Embrun, Ont., already knows what she would do with the extra money. The 76-year-old said she plans to treat herself to some of the food items she’s been avoiding at the grocery store lately, due to rising costs.
“I haven’t bought fresh fish in so long, it’ll be so nice to get a big piece of halibut … That should take care of the money rebate real quick.”Included in this year’s federal budget, which was tabled on March 28, the grocery rebate is a one-time payment aimed at helping Canadians deal with the rising cost of living. Once a bill implementing the measure passes in Parliament, the rebate will be offered through Canada’s GST/ HST tax credit system and those with low or modest incomes will be eligible to receive it. Although recent data shows that Canada’s annual inflation rate dropped from 5.9 per cent in January to 5.2 per cent in February, grocery prices remain high across the country. According to data from Statistics Canada, food prices increased 10.6 per cent year-over-year in February.
Chartrand is one of dozens of Canadians who wrote to CTVNews.ca about the rising cost of food and how they would benefit from the proposed grocery rebate. Food inflation remains a growing concern among Canadian consumers, with food prices hitting their highest levels in decades, according to data from Statistics Canada.
Source:ctvnews.ca
19 Canadians detained in northeastern Syria on their way back to Canada: sources
News Coninued from Page 1 mothers and their children for the past week. According to a source familiar with the plans, the Canadians are bound for Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal. But the repatriation group is smaller than anticipated. It is unclear if a 38-year-old Quebec woman and her six children are among the Canadians leaving the camp. She lives in another part of the camp away from most of the other Canadians.
Last week, Global Affairs advised the French-Canadian that her children were eligible for repatriation but she could not accompany them because her security assessment was incomplete. The woman, who says she has been at the camp since 2018, initially agreed to allow her children to leave the camp without her, but according to her lawyer has since changed her mind. In an email Tuesday night, Lawrence Greenspon wrote that “Ms.J wants her six children to be repatriated and that she wants to come home to Québec with them.”
“I have asked GAC to take the necessary urgent steps so that Mom can come home with her children,” Greenspon added in the email. Greenspon calls GAC’s inability to complete the assessment in four months “incredible.” The woman was given written notice of her eligibility for assessment on Nov. 24, 2022.
In an interview on Wednesday, Greenspon said he’s been in touch with Canadian family members of those who are on route and they were “over the moon excited” to have their loved ones coming home.
“It’s been more than three years that we’ve been trying to get the Canadian government to repatriate these Canadian citizens, and they’re on their way home,” Greenspon said.
Source: ctvnews.ca
israeli police storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, raising fears of wider fighting
News Coninued from Page 1 said the Palestinian Authority was in contact with officials in Egypt, Jordan, the United States and the United Nations to de-escalate tensions. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 50 people were injured. Separately, the
Israeli military said one soldier was shot in the occupied West Bank. Crowds of Palestinians gathered around a police station in Jerusalem on Wednesday, waiting anxiously for their loved ones — many of them wearing blood-stained shirts and limping on band- aged legs — to trickle out of detention. People leaving detention said police used batons, chairs, rifles and whatever else they could find to strike Palestinians, including women and children, who responded by setting off firecrackers and hurling stones.
Outside the mosque’s gate, police dispersed crowds of young men with stun grenades and rubber bullets. Israeli police said they were not immediately able to confirm the reports and videos showing officers beating Palestinians... Source: nbcnews.com
