TORONTO — Ontario announced stricter health measures for York Region on Friday in an effort contain what the province is calling an “alarming” surge in COVID-19 cases in that area. Premier Doug Ford said the region will be moved back into a modified Stage 2 of the province’s pandemic plan, which bars indoor service in […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a speech about his predecessor Kathleen Wynne Tuesday after the former Liberal premier announced she wouldn’t run for another term as MPP in the next election. “I have the utmost respect for you,” Ford said to Wynne at Queen’s Park. “We may differ on policies, we may differ on political […]
Is American-style health care on the horizon in Alberta? That thought was on some people’s minds over the weekend as Premier Jason Kenney’s governing United Conservative Party passed a controversial health policy at the party’s virtual AGM. Fifty-two per cent of the party’s membership voted in favour of supporting “the option of a privately funded […]
ASBESTOS, Que. — The Quebec town synonymous with the cancer-causing fibre asbestos has voted for a new name: Val-des-Sources. During a livestreamed council meeting Monday night, Mayor Hugues Grimard announced that Val-des-Sources beat five other proposed names with 51.5 per cent of the vote after three rounds. “It’s a name that represents our area, and […]
TORONTO — A man who died five years ago was the likely killer of a nine-year-old girl in a 1984 murder that sparked widespread revulsion and led to a notorious wrongful conviction, Toronto police said on Thursday. At a news conference, Chief James Ramer said DNA evidence indicated Calvin Hoover, then 28, had sexually assaulted […]
WINNIPEG — A First Nations elder says her symptoms were initially ignored and she was questioned about alcohol use during a stay at a Winnipeg hospital. Sadie North, 72, said she was appalled at some of her treatment during a four-day stay at Grace Hospital. She was there for cellulitis, a bacterial infection, on her […]
The Toronto Star is facing backlash after publishing a comic strip featuring a transphobic joke and imagery in the national paper this week. The Toronto chapter of PFlag, an outreach and support group for the LGBTQ+ community, drew attention to the comics on Twitter and called on the Star to apologize. “The comic perpetuates stereotypes […]
DIGBY, N.S. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to do more than send tweets to settle an increasingly violent dispute over an Indigenous-led lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, a First Nations chief said Thursday. “Actions speak louder than words,” Chief Mike Sack of the Sipekne’katik First Nation told a news conference Thursday in Digby, N.S., […]
The president of a prominent think tank used a high-level UN Security Council meeting attended by China’s foreign minister Tuesday to appeal for the release of the think tank’s northeast Asia expert, Michael Kovrig, who has been held by Beijing for nearly two years as part of a diplomatic dispute with Canada. At the end […]
The United States is refusing to participate in UN Human Rights Council talks about greater accountability for human rights violations in covert drone wars. Foreign Policy reporter Colum Lynch, who broke the story Wednesday, says the U.S. is opting out of discussions about a draft Pakistani resolution aimed at the U.S. drone strikes. Lynch explains: […]