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Quebec children under 14 to be banned from working most jobs
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
QUEBEC – The Quebec government has tabled a bill that would prevent children under the age of 14 from working most jobs. Labour Minister Jean Boulet says Bill 19 is the result of a recommendation from a legislature committee and on recent reports noting a rise in workplace injuries involving children. Bill 19 would ban ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A look at the 22 Nova Scotians killed in Canada’s worst mass shooting
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
TRURO, N.S. – The victims in Canada’s worst mass shooting included an RCMP officer, a teacher, health-care workers, retirees, neighbours of the shooter and two correctional officers killed in their home. Here is a look at the 22 lives lost on April 18-19, 2020: Elizabeth Joanne Thomas and John Zahl Thomas and Zahl died in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry identifies many RCMP failings, recommends overhaul
By Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
TRURO, N.S. – A public inquiry has found widespread failures in how the Mounties responded to Canada’s worst mass shooting and recommends that Ottawa rethink the RCMP’s central role in Canadian policing. “The RCMP must finally undergo the fundamental change that many previous reports have called for,” commissioner Leanne Fitch said in written remarks prepared ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ex-priest, 93, acquitted of assaulting girl at residential school decades ago
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg judge has acquitted a now-retired 93-year-old priest of assault after a residential school survivor accused him of forcing himself on her more than 50 years ago. Victoria McIntosh testified she was assaulted by Arthur Masse in a bathroom of the Fort Alexander Residential School north of Winnipeg sometime between 1968 and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: ex-priest acquitted of assaulting girl at residential school
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg judge has acquitted a now-retired 93-year-old priest of assault after a residential school survivor accused him of forcing himself on her more than 50 years ago. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Manslaughter charge laid in relation to April 2022 Yukon overdose death
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
WHITEHORSE – A Yukon man has been charged with manslaughter in an opioid overdose death last year. Police say the charge is the first of its kind in the territory, which had Canada’s highest per-capita death rate from illicit toxic drugs in 2022. The RCMP said Wednesday they were called to a home in Whitehorse ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery, a move Indigenous people have long urged
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
The Vatican has rejected the Doctrine of Discovery a year after Pope Francis met with Indigenous groups from Canada and delivered his first apology for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools. A statement from the Vatican says the papal bulls, or decrees, “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples.” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Professors end strike at Quebec’s Université Laval, approve conciliator deal
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
QUEBEC – Professors at Université Laval in Quebec City have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a deal brokered by a conciliator, putting an end to their indefinite general strike. About 93 per cent of the 800 teachers who voted Wednesday accepted the deal, which was also approved by the university. Professors were back at work ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In The News for March 30 : Automatic tax filing on the way for Canadians
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 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 March 30 … What we are watching in Canada … The Canada Revenue Agency will pilot a new automatic system next year to help vulnerable ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘It’s going to take the community’: Yukon faces Canada’s worst toxic drug death rate
By Ashley Joannou, The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
When the doors close at night at the administration office at Yukon’s Carcross Tagish First Nation, a van hits the road and drives through the communities to offer naloxone to reverse overdoses, drug testing kits, food and even a friendly face to help those struggling because of the opioid crisis. The nation’s director of health ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Final report to be released today into 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2023
TRURO, N.S. – The public inquiry that investigated the April 2020 mass murder of 22 people in Nova Scotia is releasing its final report today. The federal-provincial inquiry examined the events surrounding the 13-hour rampage that began in the community of Portapique and ended when the RCMP gunned down the 51-year-old killer at a gas ... Read More »
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