Category Archives: Canada

After pausing funding to UNRWA, Canada will send another $40M in aid for Gaza
OTTAWA - Canada is sending another $40 million in aid to organizations that are helping Palestinians in Gaza after pausing funding to the UN's relief agency in the region. The funding will go to group...
Jan 30, 2024

Provinces ask Ottawa for indefinite pause on expansion of assisted dying eligibility
OTTAWA - Most of the provinces and territories have signed a letter asking the federal government to indefinitely pause its plans to expand eligibility for assisted dying. A parliamentary committee re...
Jan 30, 2024

In the news for today: Digital health records coming and Pharmacare policy concerns
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Make all health records digital by 2028: report The Public Policy Forum says Ca...
Jan 30, 2024

Neskantaga First Nation works to uplift community since suicide crisis 10 years ago
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. - Small, white crosses dot a graveyard just outside Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario. Some graves are marked with white picket fences, flowers have been placed...
Jan 30, 2024

Seven years after triple murder-suicide, Nova Scotia inquiry to release final report
HALIFAX - Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond calmly bought a semi-automatic rifle on Jan. 3, 2017, and later that day fatally shot his mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter before killing himself ...
Jan 30, 2024

Jury to be given instructions as stabbing rampage coroner's inquest nears end
MELFORT, Sask. - Jurors are set to receive instructions from a coroner this morning as an inquest into a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation reaches its final stages. Myles Sanderson killed 1...
Jan 30, 2024

Provinces knew the deal when they signed on to $10-a-day child care: Liberal minister
OTTAWA - Families Minister Jenna Sudds says provinces and territories signed $10-a-day child care agreements with the federal government with their "eyes wide open," and Ottawa now expects them to mak...
Jan 29, 2024

Eby invokes Taylor Swift as B.C. launches services to crack down on intimate images
OTTAWA - British Columbia Premier David Eby says the recent sharing of fake intimate images of pop star Taylor Swift proves no one is immune from such "attacks," as the province launches new services ...
Jan 29, 2024

Lawyers urge B.C. Supreme Court to approve iPhone class-action settlement
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a group of Apple iPhone users whose devices allegedly slowed down after software updates says consumers would receive between $17.50 and $150 under a settlement agreement nego...
Jan 29, 2024

In Newfoundland and Labrador, Liberal politicians back away from Trudeau
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - As a provincial byelection approaches in a long-held Progressive Conservative riding in Newfoundland, there's something conspicuously hard to find on the Liberal candidate's campaig...
Jan 29, 2024