Category Archives: Canada

Advocates marking MMIW remembrance day note death of Indigenous woman in hospital
Those wondering whether Indigenous women's rights are still being violated need only look to the death of Joyce Echaquan for their answer, advocates said Sunday as they participated in an annual vigil...
Oct 04, 2020

Second Mi'kmaq fishery creating 'a big excitement' in small Cape Breton band
The leader of a First Nation in southern Cape Breton that has started Nova Scotia's second self-regulated commercial Indigenous fishery says it has created a mood of excitement and optimism in his sma...
Oct 04, 2020

'I wasn't afraid of death,' kidnapped British diplomat James Cross said upon release
OTTAWA - Just two days after he was freed, a British diplomat kidnapped by Quebec nationalists told Canadian officials he did not fear being killed in captivity. Rather, James Cross worried what would...
Oct 04, 2020

'The thing you do around here:' Prairie fall suppers adjust to COVID-19 reality
Vehicles lined up more than three kilometres along a rural Manitoba road on the last Sunday afternoon of September as their occupants waited to grab a traditional Ukrainian feast in a brown takeout ba...
Oct 04, 2020

'I don't want to go through this ever in my life again,' LTC resident tells inquiry
One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments ...
Oct 04, 2020

'I don't want to go through this ever in my life again,' LTC resident tells inquiry
One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments ...
Oct 04, 2020

Manitoba's chief public health officer discusses lessons learned during pandemic
WINNIPEG - A little more than six months into Manitoba's COVID-19 state of emergency, the province's chief public health officer says there have been lessons learned in terms of fighting the novel cor...
Oct 04, 2020

Joyce Echaquan's death highlights systemic racism in health care, experts say
MONTREAL - The fate of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who died in a Quebec hospital after filming staff insulting her, is a tragic example of the systemic racism many Indigenous people face when ...
Oct 04, 2020

Experts, national parents group, call for specialized proton therapy clinic in Canada
HALIFAX - An advocacy group for children's cancer research says it's time Canada makes an advanced form of radiotherapy, called proton beam therapy, more widely available. Canada is the only G7 countr...
Oct 04, 2020

Bob Rae brings tough talk to UN diplomacy, including Security Council
OTTAWA - Two months after Canada lost the election to the United Nations Security Council, the country's new ambassador was there anyway, speaking frankly about the Syrian civil war. He wasn't making ...
Oct 04, 2020