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Montreal mayor denounces vandalism of synagogue defaced with antisemitic graffiti
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2023
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is expressing her support for the city’s Jewish community after a historic synagogue was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. Plante says there’s no place in Montreal for discrimination and racism, adding that the city is working hard to ensure everyone’s safety. Her comments come after Jewish organization B’nai Brith Canada circulated photos ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Calgary charity seeking one-month homes for Ukrainian refugees after massive influx
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2023
CALGARY – A Calgary charity says it has found a temporary fix to a serious housing shortage an influx of Ukrainian evacuees has caused. The Centre for Newcomers is seeking 100 hosts for families or individuals for a month while they find housing of their own. Kelly Ernst, with the centre, says there has been ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec police conduct anti-drug trafficking raids targeting Hells Angels, Mafia
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2023
MONTREAL – Several police forces across Quebec are participating in joint anti-drug trafficking raids across the province targeting members of the Hells Angels and the Mafia. Police say they are conducting eight operations, including in Montreal, Laval and Estérel, in Quebec’s Laurentians region. Provincial police Sgt. Audrey-Anne Bilodeau wouldn’t say whose residences are being searched ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Legion demands answers on budget promise for veterans’ disability backlog
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Royal Canadian Legion is asking the Liberal government for more details about its promise of more money to address longstanding delays and backlogs for ill and injured veterans. The Liberals made the funding commitment in Tuesday’s federal budget, setting aside $156 million over five years to address what has emerged as the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Unions welcome federal budget promise to cap outsourcing, but fear service cuts
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2023
OTTAWA – The federal government says in this year’s federal budget that it will begin a new belt-tightening exercise that includes a 15 per cent cut to consulting, travel and other professional services – a move that has public-sector unions expressing mixed feelings. Unions representing thousands of federal public servants are welcoming the Liberal government’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!International development groups say budget cut will end Canadian programs abroad
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2023
OTTAWA – Humanitarian groups are giving Tuesday’s federal budget a thumbs down, saying it will create a backslide in progress on fighting disease and hunger abroad. The Liberal budget projects that it will spend nearly $6.9 billion for international development in the coming fiscal year, a 16 per cent drop from last year’s allocation. Yet ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In The News for March 29: Will the Nova Scotia shooting inquiry find the answers?
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 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 29 … What we are watching in Canada … On July 22, 2020, about three months after a gunman murdered 22 people in Nova ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!N.S. mass shooting inquiry report must deliver ‘clear commentary’: family lawyer
By Michael MacDonald and Michael Tutton, The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2023
HALIFAX – On July 22, 2020, about three months after a gunman murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia, a procession of grieving relatives marched to the local RCMP detachment, demanding an independent and open inquiry into the rampage. Nick Beaton, who lost his pregnant wife Kristen Beaton in the April 18-19, 2020, killings, wore a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver archdiocese and private school deny wrongdoing, sue alleged abusers
By The Canadian Press on March 28th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The Archdiocese of Vancouver and a private Catholic school have denied wrongdoing over claims of sexual abuse from former students and have filed their own lawsuits against the alleged abusers. The archdiocese and St. Thomas More Collegiate in Burnaby filed separate lawsuits last week against the men who belonged to a Catholic order ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Health-care professionals fight decision to reject access to psilocybin for training
By Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press on March 28th, 2023
Canada violated the rights of hundreds of patients awaiting access to psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy when it rejected applications from health-care professionals to consume the restricted drug for training purposes, a lawyer for the workers argued in Federal Court on Tuesday. But Health Canada argued it hasn’t seen evidence that therapists ingesting the psychedelic trains them to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Construction company fined $20K after worker injured in N.W.T.
By The Canadian Press on March 28th, 2023
YELLOWKNIFE – A construction company has been fined $20,000 almost two years after a worker was injured in the Northwest Territories. Arctic Canada Construction Ltd. pleaded guilty Friday to a single count under the territory’s Safety Act. The fine is to be paid to the worker’s protection fund, as well as a $3,000 surcharge. In ... Read More »
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