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Should Canada should produce more medicine amid ongoing shortages? Trudeau isn’t sure
By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on December 21st, 2022
OTTAWA – As Canada faces an ongoing shortage of children’s medications, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn’t know if ramping up domestic production of pharmaceuticals is the right approach to addressing the problem. “I don’t know offhand if it is the right thing for Canada to be starting producing these particular pills or whether ... Read More »
1 responseB.C. snow, cold Alberta temperatures cause significant flight cancellations: WestJet
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
CALGARY – WestJet says snow in British Columbia and extreme cold in Alberta have caused hundreds of flight cancellations over the past three days. The airline says in a release that there were 210 cancellations on Tuesday, mainly due to disruptions in Vancouver and frigid temperatures in Calgary and Edmonton. It says in a release ... Read More »
1 responseDetails emerge of the five ‘everyday Canadians’ gunned down in condo rampage.
By Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
VAUGHAN, Ont. – One was a the building peacemaker who always had a smile on his face. Another was a savvy business woman who knew the ins and outs of real estate. Still another was the proud grandfather of a Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman. Details emerged Tuesday about the victims in a weekend shooting rampage ... Read More »
1 responseLGBTQ refugee group urges Ottawa to help as fraction of Afghans seeking aid resettled
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
OTTAWA – LGBTQ refugee group Rainbow Railroad has only been able to resettle four per cent of the nearly 3,800 Afghans who have asked it for help since the Taliban took over their country. The Toronto-based group documents persecution on the basis of Afghans’ gender identities and sexual orientations in a report it released Monday, ... Read More »
1 responseConservative MP criticized over refusal to help Quebec family of ‘illegal refugees’
By Stephanie Taylor and Emilie Bergeron, The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
OTTAWA – Bloc Québécois, New Democratand Liberal MPs are criticizing a Conservative colleague for refusing to help a Quebec family facing deportation and calling them “illegal refugees.” Quebec MP Richard Martel made the comment in a Radio-Canada interviewpublished Tuesday as he discussed the case of a family from El Salvador who entered Canada several years ... Read More »
1 responseDocuments appearing to come from government sent to Muslim charity were forged: RCMP
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
OTTAWA – The RCMP is confirming that documents sent to the Muslim Association of Canada that appeared to be internal records of the Canada Revenue Agency and the Mounties are forgeries. The Globe and Mail reported last week that the association had been sent records, which the newspaper determined to be fake, that implied both ... Read More »
1 responseNunavut RCMP charge man with first-degree murder
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
KINNGAIT, NUNAVUT – RCMP in Nunavut have charged a 39-year-old man with first-degree murder. Police have charged Ottokie Pudluq in the death of a 33-year-old woman. She was found dead in late November at a home in Kinngait, formerly known as Cape Dorset, a hamlet at the southern tip of Baffin Island. Police have not ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Case manager who talked assisted dying with veterans no longer employed
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
OTTAWA – Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s office says an employee who spoke to veterans about accessing medical assistance in dying is no longer working with the department. City privacy concerns, spokeswoman Erika Lashbrook Knutson will not say whether the Veterans Affairs Canada case manager, who has not been named publicly, was fired or resigned. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!LGBTQ refugee group only able to resettle 4 per cent of Afghans, urges Ottawa help
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
OTTAWA – LGBTQ refugee group Rainbow Railroad has only been able to resettle four per cent of the nearly 3,800 Afghans who have asked for help since the Taliban took over their country. The Toronto-based group says in a new report that gender and sexual minorities are facing persecution and Ottawa’s resettlement programs don’t account ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa sanctions two former Haiti cabinet ministers over alleged gang ties
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
OTTAWA – Canada is sanctioning two of Haiti’s recent cabinet ministers it accuses of helping violent gangs sow chaos in that country. Ottawa is barring Haiti’s former justice minister, Berto Dorcé, and former interior minister, Liszt Quitel, from entering Canada and is ordering any assets they hold in Canada to be frozen. The Trudeau government ... Read More »
1 responseBloc, NDP criticize Tory MP over refusal to help Quebec family of ‘illegal refugees’
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
OTTAWA – Bloc Québécois and New Democrat MPs are criticizing a Conservative colleague for refusing to help a Quebec family facing deportation and calling them “illegal refugees.” Quebec MP Richard Martel made the comment in a Radio-Canada interview as he discussed the case of a family from El Salvador who entered Canada several years ago ... Read More »
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