Immigration Minister Marc Miller says that while the high number of international students entering Canada does have some effect on housing, his primary concern as minister is the integrity of Canada's immigration system. Marc Miller says around 900,000 students will enter Canada this year Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the …
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Supermarkets are being asked to cut plastic waste. What would that look like?
Faced with a rising tide of plastic waste, the federal government is pursuing a plan to get supermarkets to cut down on their use of plastic packaging — a measure that could mean big changes to the shopping experience. Ottawa wants to reduce plastic food packaging and is proposing new …
Read More »Canadian track stars win 2 golds in span of an hour at world championships
Sports Olympics Summer Sports Track and Field Canada's Pierce LePage leads the men's decathlon with just two events remaining at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Olympic champion Damian Warner is in third spot with the javelin and 1,500-metre events still to come on Saturday. Fellow Canadian Sarah Mitton qualifies …
Read More »Canadians LePage, Warner sit 1st, 3rd in decathlon at worlds with 2 events to go
Sports Olympics Summer Sports Track and Field Canada's Pierce LePage leads the men's decathlon with just two events remaining at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Olympic champion Damian Warner is in third spot with the javelin and 1,500-metre events still to come on Saturday. Fellow Canadian Sarah Mitton qualifies …
Read More »As wildfires still burn, communities grieve destruction with eye towards rebuilding
Fires have decimated street signs, downed power lines and razed key landmarks that can make it difficult for fire officials to identify and report every individual property that has been impacted across the Central Okanagan and in the Shuswap region northeast of Kamloops. Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw hope to have residents …
Read More »How a Jewish summer camp basketball game 40 years ago fought to undo antisemitic lessons
In 1983, Hart Snider and his fellow Jewish summer campers in Alberta played in a basketball game that still impacts his life today. The opposing team was made up of students from a nearby town who'd been taught by a notorious Holocaust denier. Snider wants to ensure people don't forget …
Read More »Recent Amber Alert not delivered across province due to software update: OPP
Ontario Provincial Police say a software update by a third party resulted in an Amber Alert not going out to cellphones across the province this week. Alert issued early Thursday for missing 3-month-old only went out to cellphones near Roseneath, Ont. Ontario Provincial Police say a software update by a …
Read More »Civil liberties association calls Sask. government school naming and pronoun policy discriminatory
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) says the Saskatchewan government's new policy on name and gender rules for schools is discriminatory because it singles out LGBTQ students. Education minister says he 'not worried' about a legal challenge The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) says the Saskatchewan government's new policy on …
Read More »Extreme weather costs are pushing rural Ontario towns to the financial brink
The southwestern Ontario town of Glencoe, which faced a one-in-a-century rainstorm resulting in serious flooding this week, is the latest rural community that's having trouble paying bills as a result of such extreme weather. Repeated shocks from heavy rain, flooding force Glencoe to go cap-in-hand to the province The mayor …
Read More »Rodent bites, extreme heat and a staffing shortage mark a summer at N.L.’s biggest jail
Defence lawyers in St. John's are sounding the alarm over conditions at Her Majesty's Penitentiary. Defence lawyers in St. John's say inmates, staff living and working in 'inexcusable' conditions It's not a one-off for inmates to be bitten and gnawed at by rats and mice. Lawyer Stephen Orr himself has …
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