Category Archives: Canada
Doctors, nurses, advocates call on governments to address health-care crisis
TORONTO - Associations representing Canada's doctors, nursesand other health providers are calling on governments to work together to solve the health-care crisis that is affecting people across the c...
Nov 04, 2022
Intel panel finds 'important challenges' facing federal approach on hostage-takings
OTTAWA - MPs and senators who oversee security and intelligence activities are calling on the government to create a clear framework to respond to terrorist hostage-takings. The National Security and ...
Nov 04, 2022
Time changes persist despite experts' consensus to end daylight time
Most Canadians will be turning the clocks back by an hour this weekend as various political moves to end seasonal time changes have yet to take broad effect - but experts say we'd be better off withou...
Nov 04, 2022
The number of Mexican asylum seekers in Canada has increased dramatically
MONTREAL - Canada has seen a spike in the number of Mexicans seeking asylum here this year, with the vast majority of them coming to Montreal. They say they are fleeing Mexico in search of jobs and sa...
Nov 04, 2022
Canadians begin to receive temporary boost to GST rebate today
OTTAWA - Canadians who are eligible for the GST rebate can expect to receive an additional lump-sum payment as early as today. A bill introduced by the Liberal government to temporarily double the reb...
Nov 04, 2022
Canada sanctions Haitian officials as MPs told gangs are wreaking ‘civil war
Ottawa is sanctioning at least two senior Haitian officials for their alleged support of gangs in the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly has announced sanctions in lockstep with the U.S. fo...
Nov 04, 2022
Court says conditional sentence curbs are constitutional in Indigenous case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of provisions that prevent an offender from avoiding jail by serving their sentence in the community, finding no evidence they had...
Nov 04, 2022
Latest job numbers, Lich back at Emergencies Act inquiry : In The News for Nov. 4
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 4 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Nov 04, 2022
Special tribunal among options to probe crimes linked to unmarked graves: official
OTTAWA - An independent official appointed to help communities investigate unmarked graves at former residential school sites says she is exploring the idea of whether a special tribunal should prosec...
Nov 04, 2022
Some Quebec colleges say Ottawa denies 80 to 90 per cent of study permits from Africa
MONTREAL - Some Quebec junior colleges say 80 to 90 per cent of the international students they've accepted from Africa are being refused study permits by the federal government, jeopardizing their ab...
Nov 04, 2022