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Kenya LGBTQ+ activists try switching role of religion from oppression to empowerment
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024
KISUMU, Kenya – Every Sunday in the Kenyan port city of Kisumu, an HIV-prevention group gathers dozens of gay and bisexual men for a service to help maintain their physical and spiritual health. Standing in rows under a tin roof, a group of 50 men sing in Swahili, clapping along to the church service. They ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MP Jamil Jivani meets U.S. vice president-elect amid Trump’s tariff threats
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024
WASHINGTON – A Conservative member of Parliament has tapped a longtime friendship to connect with Donald Trump’s inner circle as Canada prepares for the president-elect’s return to the White House next month amid threats of devastating tariffs. Jamil Jivani posted a picture on social media Saturday with vice-president-elect JD Vance and British Conservative Opposition Leader ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec liquor store employees secure new collective agreement after 2-year fight
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024
MONTREAL – Members of a union representing more than 5,000 Quebec liquor store employees have secured a new collective agreement, ending two years of negotiations with the province-owned company. The union says more than 2,300 union members cast their votes on Friday, with 71 per cent in favour of adopting the agreement in principle reached ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec Conservative Party leader hospitalized with heart problem
By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024
MONTREAL – Quebec Conservative Party leader Éric Duhaime has been hospitalized with a heart problem. Duhaime says he suffered heart trouble Friday night and his spouse immediately brought him to hospital. The party leader made the announcement on X this afternoon, posting a picture of himself in a hospital bed giving a thumbs up. Duhaime ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Apiaries abuzz over ruling against widening cross-border trade in live honeybees
By Kyle Duggan and Maura Forrest, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024
OTTAWA – The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live bee trade is casting a spotlight on political division within Canada’s beekeeping community. A federal judge has ruled against awarding commercial beekeepers damages from a decades-old partial ban on shipping live honeybees across the Canada-U.S. border, which is in place out ... Read More »
1 responseLGBTQ+ refugees languish as Kenyan government blocks Canadians from resettling them
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024
NAIROBI, Kenya – In a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, seven people gather in an air-conditioned home around a dinner table for a Ugandan stew of matoke bananas with peanut sauce. Like many locals, most of them wear beaded bracelets with the flag of Kenya, or of their native Uganda. But Anne, who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More cases of parasite causing deadly whirling disease in fish found in B.C. waters
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government says it has detected more cases of a parasite that Parks Canada describes as potentially devastating to young trout and salmon. The provincial Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship says three trout samples from the southern arm of Kootenay Lake have tested positive for the parasite that causes ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec premier wants to put a stop to prayer in parks and public places
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
Quebec Premier François Legault says he’s looking at ways to end prayer in public places, including parks, as his government promises to table new legislation to strengthen secularism in schools. Legault made the comments during a press conference in Quebec City on Friday to mark the end of the fall legislative session. He said he ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As postal strike enters fourth week, pressure mounts for Ottawa to step in: experts
By Rosa Saba, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
As the Canada Post strike drags into a fourth week, experts say there’s growing pressure on the government to act as the business community’s calls for intervention get louder. So far Ottawa has said it won’t step in, despite forcing people back to work in other recent high-profile labour disputes. But it’s getting harder for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec promises new legislation to strengthen secularism in schools
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
QUEBEC – The Quebec government says it will table legislation to strengthen secularism in schools, following the latest in a series of reports about Muslim religious practices appearing in some of the province’s public schools. Premier François Legault says there are teachers introducing “Islamist religious concepts” into Quebec schools, in violation of the principle of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Manitoba premier says conservation officers to help patrol Canada-U.S. border
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government is planning to have conservation officers help patrol efforts along the Canada-United States border. Premier Wab Kinew says the officers would serve as extra eyes and ears for police and other security agencies and could help in humanitarian efforts to rescue people. He pointed to the case of a family ... Read More »
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