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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 »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s housing crisis leads to more unsafe housing for victims of domestic violence
By Cassidy McMackon, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
HALIFAX, Va. – Women’s advocates say provincial and federal governments need to step up efforts to create housing for people escaping gender-based violence because too many women are forced to remain in unsafe situations after being abused. A study released last week by Women’s Shelters Canada says the country’s housing crisis is preventing many people ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Duty to learn’: Vigils mark 35th anniversary of Polytechnique anti-feminist killings
By Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
MONTREAL – Braving a biting winter wind, dignitaries gathered in front of Polytechnique Montréal’s main campus on Friday to pay tribute to the 14 women killed at the Montreal institution in an anti-feminist attack 35 years ago. Among those silently laying white flowers at the foot of a commemorative plaque was Louis Courville, who was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man arrested in Quebec for alleged plot to kill Jews in NYC being held in Rimouski
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
MONTREAL – A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City is being held in a detention centre hundreds of kilometres from Montreal, where he says the French-speaking guards don’t understand him. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, who appeared remotely in Quebec Superior Court this morning, says he’s the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservatives intervene to delay debate on NDP motion in House of Commons
By David Baxter, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – The Conservatives are stalling an NDP opposition day motion in the House of Commons, after the New Democrats intervened in the Tories’ opposition day on Thursday. The NDP was set to begin debate on a motion calling on the government to expand the GST break to cover what they call essentials. Instead, Conservative ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s top court dismisses appeal in Ontario drug trafficking case
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
Canada’s highest court has dismissed the appeal of a Guelph, Ont., man convicted of drug trafficking after police impersonated a drug dealer in order to arrest him. Dwayne Alexander Campbell argued police violated his Charter right to be free from unreasonable search or seizure in his 2017 arrest. Police seized the cellphone of a known ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s Arctic policy draws on international collaboration to face emerging threats
By Nick Murray, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada has unveiled an Arctic foreign policy that commits to increasing domestic and international collaboration to combat emerging foreign threats in the North. The policy, released by Global Affairs Canada on Friday in Ottawa, says the North American Arctic is “no longer free from tension” amid increased geopolitical instability following Russia’s invasion of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jobless rate reaches 6.8% in November, highest since January 2017 outside of pandemic
By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent last month, up from 6.5 per cent in October, as more people looked for work. Statistics Canada’s November labour force survey says the jobless rate last month reached the highest since January 2017, outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. The economy added 51,000 jobs in November, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Jobless rate reaches 6.8% in November, highest since January
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent in November as more people looked for work, while the economy added 51,000 jobs. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Canada Post strike enters fourth week
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Canada Post strike enters fourth week Canada Post and the union representing more than 55,000 striking workers appeared closer to resuming negotiations as the strike entered its fourth week. Federal mediation was put on hold last week due ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vigils, events to mark 35th anniversary of Polytechnique anti-feminist mass killing
By The Canadian Press on December 6th, 2024
MONTREAL – Polytechnique Montréal will pay tribute today to the 14 young women who were murdered at the engineering school 35 years ago. Vigils and other events are scheduled in Montreal and across the country to mark the anniversary of the Dec. 6, 1989, anti-feminist mass killing. Representatives of the school and student associations will ... Read More »
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