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Ottawa may have to adjust future help for Ukrainian refugees: immigration minister
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
CALGARY – Canada may have to consider updating future supports for Ukrainians seeking refuge from war, federal Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Monday. “I’ve been hearing from provinces and from municipalities across the country who have seen large numbers of people arrive that they are struggling to keep up,” Fraser told a news conference in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UBC encourages students to uninstall TikTok app, citing ‘not yet’ proven data risks
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
VANCOUVER – The University of British Columbia is encouraging students to uninstall the TikTok app from their mobile phones, citing concerns about data sharing with the social media platform’s Chinese parent company. Instead, the school recommends students use a web browser to access TikTok content. The school says in a statement issued last week that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. to spend billions on plan to build more homes to ease housing crisis
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government has introduced a multibillion-dollar plan to construct more homes as quickly as possible in an attempt to build its way out of the housing crisis. The so-called Homes for People plan starts with a $4-billion investment over three years and commits to $12 billion over a decade with incentives ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AFN says it secured extra $3 billion from Ottawa for child-welfare compensation
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – The Assembly of First Nations says it has secured an extra $3 billion from the federal government in a historic child-welfare compensation case. The assembly, along with the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, announced the money today as part of a revised compensation package now totalling $23 billion, which it plans ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau says orderly immigration system is needed, after deaths of eight migrants
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reiterating the importance of an orderly immigration system as police investigate the deaths of eight migrants, including two children, in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne last week. Last month, Canada negotiated a deal with the United States to turn away asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings like Roxham ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indian police identify family who died crossing illegally into U.S. from Akwesasne
By Hina Alam and Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
The four Indian nationals whose bodies were among eight pulled from the St. Lawrence River last week had been travelling in Canada on a tourist visa, a police official from their home state said Monday. Eight people – four from India and four of Romanian descent – died trying to cross illegally into the United ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Muslim charity alleges systemic bias in bid to halt revenue agency’s ‘tainted’ audit
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – A grassroots Muslim charity is pointing to internal Canada Revenue Agency documents in a bid to persuade an Ontario court that a long-running federal audit is fundamentally tainted by systemic bias and Islamophobia. The Muslim Association of Canada wants the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to halt the revenue agency’s audit of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Egyptian asylum seekers decry ‘Islamophobia’ by Canada’s border agency
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
VANCOUVER – Attia Elserfy was expecting a second lease on life when he escaped Egypt with his family, landing in Vancouver in October 2018. But the Elserfys say their lives are in limbo because the Canada Border Services Agency challenged both Attia and his wife’s admissibility as refugees over their ties to a political party ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!First Nations police services say Ottawa’s underfunding amounts to discrimination
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – Nine First Nations police services say Ottawa’s “deliberate and wilful underfunding” of policing in their communities amounts to discrimination. The services, represented by the Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario, recently launched a complaint over the matter with Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. The complaint, filed last week and first reported by the Globe and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Atlantic hydrogen projects tracking well for 2025 production start: Wilkinson
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he expects to know the final investment decisions on at least two new hydrogen projects in Atlantic Canada before the end of the year. However Wilkinson says there are still a lot of financial uncertainties, and a lot depends on new government supports. Canada and Germany signed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!EU disinformation head: Canada can counter interference by boosting media literacy
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – The European Union’s head of combating foreign interference in communications says allegations that Beijing is meddling in Canada’s elections can be an opportunity to improve the public’s understanding of disinformation. Lutz Guellner, who leads the EU foreign ministry’s work on strategic communications, was visiting Ottawa last week as part of collaboration on a ... Read More »
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