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Plan to wake serial killer Robert Pickton from coma: Quebec police
By The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
QUEBEC – A spokesman for Quebec’s provincial police says British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton is in a medically induced coma after a prison attack and doctors planned to try to wake him soon. Sgt. Hugues Beaulieu says the plan to wake Pickton in the next few days and see if he can survive on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Removing religion as hate speech defence an idea worth exploring: antisemitism envoy
By The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada’s special envoy for combatting antisemitism says she’s “very interested” in exploring the idea of removing religion as a possible defence against hate speech charges. Deborah Lyons, whose title also includes preserving Holocaust remembrance, appeared this morning before a parliamentary committee that is studying antisemitism on university campuses. Jewish leaders, students and faculty ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minister tables bill to extend citizenship rights to children born abroad
By The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller tabled legislation today that is intended to extend citizenship to some children born outside of the country. In 2009, the Conservative government changed the law so that Canadian parents who were born abroad could not pass down their citizenship, unless their child was born in Canada. Those who’ve not ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Looking over our shoulders’: A killing looms large in a little B.C. town
By Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
LUMBY, B.C. – Something has shifted in the pretty little village of Lumby, B.C. It’s subtle, say residents of the community of 2,000 people, nestled in the hills of the North Okanagan in B.C.’s Interior. Few people now gather outside coffee shops on the main street along Highway 6. Posters on the school doors require ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: How foreign aid flows, New citizenship bill to be tabled in Ottawa
By The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… A fifth of foreign aid goes to refugees in Canada While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world’s richest countries, a fifth of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada 7th in foreign aid spending, but a fifth goes to refugees inside the country
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
OTTAWA – While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world’s richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada’s borders. Some 19 per cent of Canada’s aid reported to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development last year benefited refugees and Ukrainians within Canada. “Most Canadians ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minister expected to table bill to extend citizenship rights to children born abroad
By The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller is expected to table legislation today that would extend citizenship to some children born outside of the country. In 2009, the Conservative government changed the law so that Canadian parents who were born abroad could not pass down their citizenship unless their child was born in Canada. Amendments to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After cemetery strike, grieving Montreal families still waiting to bury loved ones
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on May 23rd, 2024
MONTREAL – For more than a year, an urn holding the ashes of Bridget Heffernan’s brother has remained in her Montreal-area home instead of being buried in the plot at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery where her family members have been laid to rest for nearly a century. With her mother’s death last September, Heffernan now has two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘One of the most hated men in Winnipeg’: Trial sees letters from serial killer
By Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press on May 22nd, 2024
WINNIPEG – The trial of admitted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki learned about him through his own words Wednesday, with pen pal letters in which he discusses everything from the persecution of Caucasians to his post-apocalyptic zombie novel. “A racist is someone who wakes up white in the morning,” Skibicki wrote to a fellow inmate in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal police arrest 20-year-old suspect in Jewish school shooting last November
By The Canadian Press on May 22nd, 2024
Montreal police say they have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with gunshots that were fired at a Jewish school in the city in late 2023. Last November, police found bullet holes in the door of Yeshiva Gedola and bullet casings on the ground, weeks after the start to the Israel-Hamas war. The school in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP slam Liberals for slow reunification programs for relatives stuck in Gaza, Sudan
By The Canadian Press on May 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – The NDP are accusing the Trudeau government of bungling measures meant to evacuate relatives of Canadians from conflict zones. They say not a single person has been resettled from Sudan, while it’s unclear if any have arrived from the Gaza Strip, months after launching programs for Canadians to get their relatives out of ... Read More »
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