TORONTO — Ontario is taking over management of four of the five long-term care homes that were the subject of a Canadian Armed Forces report alleging “horrific” conditions, including insect infestations, poor hygiene and aggressive behaviour toward residents. The government will be conducting “extremely rigorous” inspections of those homes, as well as 13 others facing challenges […]
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the federal government must intervene with a national chain of long-term care homes — that are privately operated but owned by a crown corporation — that has been accused of negligence. “I don’t accept … the response that they can’t do anything about it,” Singh told reporters in Ottawa Wednesday. […]
OTTAWA — How Parliament should function in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis remained unresolved Monday as the Conservatives dug in on their demand that the House of Commons resume normal operations with a reduced number of MPs in the chamber. For much of the day, MPs debated a government motion to waive “normal” Commons […]
Découvrez le trailer de “Millenium, Les hommes qui n’aimaient pas les femmes” (“The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo”), l’adaptation américaine du premier volet de la saga “Millenium” par David Fincher. Après un teaser début juin (voir la news), la bande-annonce de Millenium Les hommes qui n’aimaient pas les femmes (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) […]
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford added his voice to the condemnation of people who crowded into a downtown park on Saturday during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. “The images I saw yesterday, from Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto — I thought it was a rock concert,” Ford said during an update on Sunday. “I was […]
OTTAWA — Canada will co-host a major United Nations conference on dealing with the economic crisis spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Click Here: cheap nrl jerseys Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will play a lead role in the Thursday event with his Jamaican counterpart Andrew Holness and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The top priority will […]
A ban on large gatherings or protests due to the COVID-19 pandemic creates optimal conditions for pipeline construction, according to Alberta’s energy minister. Energy Minister Sonya Savage says the ongoing pandemic is a “great time” to build a pipeline, because people aren’t able to gather to protest pipeline construction. Savage made the comments when asked about […]
Greta Thunberg has no time for the Alberta energy minister’s pro-pipeline talk during the coronavirus pandemic. Minster Sonya Savage said in a recent podcast that bans on mass gatherings mean there are fewer protests, which makes it “a great time” to build pipelines, but the Swedish climate activist was having none of it. Savage’s comments […]
OTTAWA — The Canadian researcher who was among the first to predict the deadly spread of COVID-19 says the world needs to change the way it monitors for and reacts to disease outbreaks. Dr. Kamran Khan set out to make a “smoke alarm” that would detect disease outbreaks around the world when he created his […]
A dale is a broad valley. The Yorkshire Dales are broad, picturesque valleys in Northern England, mostly named for the rivers or streams that run through them. One of these is Wharfedale, which is the upper valley of the River Wharfe—and which was the original home of British firm Wharfedale Wireless Works, founded in 1932 […]