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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 »
Be the first to comment!Canada first to develop medical standards to keep kids from suffering pain in silence
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – The Health Standards Organization has released a new set of guidelines to help hospital workers manage children’s pain – particularly for those who can’t communicate when they’re hurt. It’s the first national standard in the world focused on pediatric pain. Emergency physician and pediatric pain researcher Dr. Samina Ali says for a long ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NASA, CSA name Jeremy Hansen to be first Canadian to encircle the moon
By James McCarten, The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
HOUSTON – Jeremy Hansen, a colonel and CF-18 pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, has been selected to become the first Canadian to venture into deep space. NASA and the Canadian Space Agency made the long-awaited announcement Monday introducing the four astronauts who will steer the next stage of an ambitious plan to establish ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court hears legal challenge over a year after government invoked Emergencies Act
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
OTTAWA – A national civil liberties group says nebulous claims about economic instability or general unrest weren’t enough to legally justify the Liberal government’s use of the Emergencies Act early last year. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is among the groups and individuals appearing in Federal Court beginning today to argue Ottawa lacked sound statutory ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police probe suspicious deaths north of Montreal of two people who knew each other
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
SAINTE-JULIENNE, Que. – Quebec provincial police are investigating after the bodies of two people in their 40s were discovered in separate locations in a community 80 kilometres north of Montreal. Police are not releasing details about the relationship between the two victims but say they knew each other and that their deaths are suspicious. They ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In The News for April 3 : Who will be the first Canadian in deep space?
By The Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2023
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 3 … What we are watching in Canada … It’s like a high-tech, high-stakes Canadian Idol finale – only instead of a recording contract, ... Read More »
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