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Minister’s sister-in-law steps down as ethics watchdog after committee launches probe
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has stepped down as the interim ethics commissioner a day after a House of Commons committee agreed to investigate her appointment. Martine Richard, who has worked in the commissioner’s office as a lawyer since 2013, took over the top job last month for a six-month stint. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. First Nation sues port firm, others for disrupting ancestral remains
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The Bonaparte First Nation in British Columbia’s Interior is suing a shipping port company and several others, claiming railway infrastructure development has destroyed and disturbed its ancestral burial grounds. In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the First Nation says Ashcroft Terminals Ltd. and defendants that include the provincial ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senator to appear before parliamentary committee over inauthentic docs for Afghans
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
OTTAWA – A Manitoba senator who denies falsifying travel documents for Afghan refugees will be grilled by a committee of parliamentarians over allegations her actions may have left refugees stranded. Sen. Marilou McPhedran, a lawyer and human rights advocate, gave a tearful speech in the Senate on Feb. 2, saying she was given a template ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver police officer tells inquest he punched Myles Gray as hard as he could
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
BURNABY, B.C. – A Vancouver police officer told a British Columbia coroner’s jury that he punched Myles Gray in the head as hard as he could several times because he didn’t think anything else would work to subdue the man, other than shooting him. Const. Kory Folkestad testified on the third day of the inquest ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. limits supply of Ozempic for its diabetes patients, not weight loss in U.S.
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia is bringing in a new regulation immediately to ensure diabetes patients don’t face a shortage of the drug Ozempic, touted by celebrities for its weight loss side-effects. Health Minister Adrian Dix said Wednesday the change will ensure patients in B.C. and Canada needing Ozempic to treat their Type 2 diabetes will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court delays decision on abortion drug stalemate, extending stay to Friday
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court is buying itself two more days before it resolves a legal stalemate over the abortion drug mifepristone. The court has extended until Friday a stay on a controversial ruling in Texas that invalidated federal approvals for the drug. That means the deadlock over two conflicting federal rulings – and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Many passport renewals on pause during federal public service workers’ strike
By Kiernan Green, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
TORONTO – Senjuti Sarker needed to renew her passport for an upcoming trip to Europe but her attempt at doing so failed Wednesday after federal public service workers went on strike. Sarker, who was hoping to travel next week to attend an artistic program, said the labour disruption could completely upend her plans. “I cannot ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Break-in at N.W.T. government office results in privacy breach affecting 3,000 people
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
YELLOWKNIFE – The Northwest Territories government says a break-in at its Department of Education, Culture and Employment headquarters in Yellowknife has resulted in a privacy breach affecting about 3,000 people. The government says the break-in occurred early on Sunday and items including hard drives were stolen. Those drives contained personal information of people on income ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sociologist says pandemic may have made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner
By Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
TORONTO – Increased time online during the pandemic may have made young Canadians meaner, a researcher said Wednesday, warning that declining empathy which emerged during isolation was now fostering increased cruelty during in-person interactions, including at school. Kaitlynn Mendes, an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, said during an Ontario Medical Association press ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As Supreme Court readies decision, White House vows to keep defending abortion rights
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
WASHINGTON – The White House is vowing to continue to defend abortion rights in the United States, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides. The high court is expected to issue an interim decision today on a legal stalemate over the abortion drug mifepristone. Two different federal judges issued contradictory rulings almost simultaneously earlier this ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Google ordered to pay $500,000 to Montrealer over links to post calling him pedophile
By The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
MONTREAL – A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Google to pay $500,000 to a Montreal man after the tech company restored a link to an online post falsely accusing him of being a pedophile. The man, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, first found the defamatory post in 2006 when he used ... Read More »
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