Canada should give “urgent consideration” to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, said a report last week from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves. Justice Minister David Lametti said he is open to such a solution. Kimberly Murray made the call in her newly released interim report, just over a […]
David Johnston says he is stepping down from his role as special rapporteur investigating foreign interference, effective no later than the end of June, citing the highly partisan atmosphere around his work. The former governor general says in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that his leadership of the government’s probe into foreign meddling […]
The Canadian government has restored funding to Hockey Canada. Hockey Canada made the announcement Sunday — and Canadian sport minister Pascale St-Onge made it official — before the Canada-United States gold-medal game at the world women’s hockey championship. “When we suspended the funding for Hockey Canada, it was never a matter of doing it forever. […]
Sunwing says it has completed all of its scheduled recovery flights to bring home passengers stranded in Mexico after winter storms disrupted its operations during the holidays. The travel company says in a statement that its teams have worked around the clock to return its affected customers home. Some travellers from Saskatchewan say the airline […]
Canada and Australia have joined a growing list of countries requiring travellers from China to take a COVID-19 test prior to boarding their flight as China battles a nationwide outbreak of the coronavirus after abruptly easing restrictions that were in place for much of the pandemic. Australian health authorities said Sunday that from January 5, […]
Canadians won’t escape food inflation any time soon. Food prices in Canada will continue to escalate in the new year, with grocery costs forecast to rise up to seven per cent in 2023, new research predicts. For a family of four, the total annual grocery bill is expected to be $16,288 — $1,065 more than […]
A report from Statistics Canada shows the national homicide rate has increased for a third consecutive year and nearly one-quarter of killings in 2021 were connected to gangs. There were 788 homicides in the country last year – up three per cent from 2020. It marked the highest rate of homicides in Canada since 2005. […]
While Canada prepares to honour the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Friday, the majority of provinces have not followed the federal government’s move to make it a statutory holiday for its workers. New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have declared Sept. 30 a statutory holiday. The other […]
According to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, employers in Canada’s prairie region are expected to see an increase in hiring for the fourth quarter of 2022. Mindy Stoltz of Manpower’s Winnipeg office said that nearly half of employers in the survey plan to hire people. “Survey data reveals that 48 per cent of employers […]
Liberal cabinet ministers said Tuesday the government is listening to Canadians who are struggling under the weight of inflation and entirely dismissed criticism from the new Conservative leader that they are part of a “radical woke coalition.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially announced the first policies to directly respond to the cost-of-living crisis spurred by […]
