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Quebecers who were in youth protection less likely to graduate, be employed: study
By The Canadian Press on April 21st, 2024
MONTREAL – A recent study commissioned by the Quebec government says young people who had been in the care of the province’s youth protection authorities are less likely to graduate from high school or to be employed than their peers. The study, conducted by researchers at several Quebec universities, found only 37 per cent of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Whale experts confident orca calf will survive, find family if rescue plan succeeds
By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on April 21st, 2024
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – The odds of a two-year old killer whale calf surviving in the open ocean on its own and eventually reuniting with family members remain solid if a rescue team manages to free the orca from the Vancouver Island lagoon where she’s been trapped for nearly a month, whale experts say. A second ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In domestic abuse, strangulation is a ‘hidden’ predictor of femicide, experts say
By Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press on April 21st, 2024
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Georgina McGrath says she still has to sleep some nights with the windows open, the cold air in her lungs a reminder that she’s far away from the man who used to strangle her. On those nights, she said, she can still feel his hands on her neck. Though the Newfoundland ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Some improvement to Montreal Village but troubles persist, community members say
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
MONTREAL – Members of the community in Montreal’s Village neighbourhood say they’ve seen some improvements to local security and cleanliness, but argue Quebec needs to do more to support vulnerable people in the area. Montreal last June launched a strategy to revitalize the historic LGBTQ district after residents and business owners raised safety concerns amid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man dies months after exoneration
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
FREDERICTON – A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent decades trying to clear his name before being declared innocent by a judge in January has died at the age of 80. Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder convictions, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Wrongfully convicted N.B man dies four months after exoneration
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
FREDERICTON – A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent 40 years trying to clear his name in a murder case before being declared innocent in January has died. Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder convictions, says Gillespie died ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous healing lodges face chronic underfunding across Canada, critics say
By Ally Lemieux Fanset, Jack Wilson and Faith Greco, The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
SAINT-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ, Que. – Every morning, Indigenous men at the Waseskun Healing Centre north of Montreal gather for a healing circle, where they smudge, share stories and sometimes gain spiritual guidance from elders. The centre is the equivalent of a minimum-security prison but here, the men are called residents, rather than inmates, prisoners or offenders. At ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MPs grill ‘incompetent’ health agency on fired National Microbiology Lab scientists
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2024
OTTAWA – Federal officials in charge of the National Microbiology Lab defended security protocols at the Winnipeg institution against accusations from MPs of bureaucratic incompetence Friday. “We acted as expeditiously as we could, given the information that was available,” Public Health Agency of Canada head Heather Jeffrey said Friday. She testified at the House committee ... Read More »
1 response‘It was joy’: Trapped B.C. orca calf eats seal meat, putting rescue on hold
By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2024
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – A rescue operation for an orca calf trapped in a remote tidal lagoon off Vancouver Island has been put on hold after it started eating seal meat thrown in the water for what is believed to be the first time. Ehattesaht First Nation Chief Simon John said the young killer whale swam ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police to search Saskatoon landfill for woman missing since 2020
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2024
SASKATOON – Police are planning to search a Saskatoon landfill for a woman who has been missing for almost four years. Mackenzie Lee Trottier was last seen in December 2020. Police say a substantial amount of data was collected late last year that identifies a specific area of the landfill that may contain evidence in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘City within a city’: Montreal announces plan for 40,000-person neighbourhood
By Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2024
MONTREAL – After several false starts, the City of Montreal announced on Friday a new vision to redevelop a former horse racing track into a neighbourhood for up to 40,000 people. Calling the project a “city within a city,” Mayor Valérie Plante said half the 20,000 units planned for the site in and around the ... Read More »
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