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Canada-Morocco: Montreal’s Moroccans cheering both teams in today’s World Cup match
By The Canadian Press on December 1st, 2022
MONTREAL – Members of Montreal’s Moroccan community are packing bars and cafés across the city today for the Canada-Morocco match at the World Cup in Qatar. The excitement will be particularly palpable in “Little Maghreb,” a district north of downtown where immigrants from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia have been moving to since the 1990s. Canada ... Read More »
1 responsePandemic, slower U.S. migration see Canada closing gap with U.S. in workforce race
By James McCarten, The Canadian Press on December 1st, 2022
WASHINGTON – Since the global onset of COVID-19, Canada has been gradually closing the gap with the United States when it comes to attracting and keeping an important economic prize: new permanent residents. The annual number of permanent residents admitted to the U.S. was well below pre-pandemic levels in 2021, while Canada welcomed the most ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Progress being made in fight to save North Atlantic right whale from extinction
By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press on December 1st, 2022
HALIFAX – The latest official population estimate for the world’s most endangered species of whale is grim. A group of international experts recently confirmed there were about 340 surviving North Atlantic right whales as of last year – down from 348 recorded in 2020. Though the rate of decline has slowed, researchers say these huge ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Reuniting was indescribable:’ Communities share stories of searching unmarked graves
By Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
WINNIPEG – On a clear summer day in August, Rebecca Blake found herself standing in a cemetery outside Edmonton searching for the graves of Inuvialuit who died in the South during a tuberculosis epidemic. In a corner of a cemetery in St. Albert, Alta., under some trees she found a section dedicated to Indigenous peoples ... Read More »
1 responseAlberta premier rejects accusations her sovereignty bill is undemocratic power grab
By The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting Opposition accusations that a bill granting her and her cabinet sweeping powers to rewrite laws behind closed doors is an undemocratic, dangerous power grab. Smith told the house during question period that under her bill, cabinet can only take specific actions that are first approved by a ... Read More »
1 responseCSIS definition of threat irrelevant to Emergencies Act decision, ex-directors say
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
OTTAWA – The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s interpretation of what constitutes a national security threat is not relevant when it comes to a government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, two of the spy agency’s former directors testified at a national inquiry Wednesday. Ward Elcock, who led CSIS from 1994 to 2004, and Richard Fadden, ... Read More »
1 responseCalls for expanded safe supply as B.C. counts another 179 overdose deaths
By The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s coroner says the overdose death toll for October reached 179 people, prompting a renewed call for Premier David Eby to introduce a widely accessible safe supply of drugs. The coroner says the October statistics show that illicit drugs caused the deaths of 1,827 people in B.C. in the first 10 months ... Read More »
1 responseList of areas the Alberta government accuses Ottawa of overreaching
By The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
EDMONTON – When the Alberta legislature resumed sitting Tuesday, the first bill introduced by the United Conservative Party government was one aimed at shielding the province from federal laws it deems harmful to its interests. The Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act was a key promise from Premier Danielle Smith when she was running ... Read More »
1 responseLegal experts say Ottawa unlikely to be ‘main combatant’ in Alberta sovereignty fight
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
CALGARY – Constitutional law experts say it’s unlikely Ottawa will rush to fight Alberta over a proposed sovereignty bill that would give the provincial government new powers to resist what it considers federal intrusion. Eric Adams, a constitutional law expert at the University of Alberta, calls the legislation “unprecedented” and an attempt to “rewrite the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Snowfall gridlock in Metro Vancouver turns 45-minute commute into 12-hour frustration
By The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
VANCOUVER – When Bharanisai Madhusudhan stopped at the grocery store on his way home from work Tuesday afternoon, he expected the trip from Vancouver to Surrey to take him about 45 minutes. Instead, it would be nearly 12 hours before he arrived home. “If I had walked to my home, I would have reached there ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!China accused of ‘regularly’ intercepting Canadian military aircraft
By The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
OTTAWA – China is being accused of having “regularly” intercepted a Canadian military aircraft tasked with enforcing UN sanctions against North Korea. The Department of National Defence says the intercepts happened on a number of occasions between September and November. They involved a Canadian CP-140 Aurora surveillance aircraft flying out of Okinawa, Japan. Defence Department ... Read More »
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