Israeli forces are killing Palestinian civilians in the West Bank — including children — with “callous disregard for human life,” enjoying near impunity for likely war crimes, and should be immediately cut off from arms shipments by the international community, declares a damning report released by Amnesty International on Thursday. “This is a hugely significant development,” […]
Racing Point has issued a statement explaining the timeline of Lance Stroll’s positive COVID-19 test and disclosing why the Canadian wasn’t tested following his withdrawal from the Eifel GP. Stroll was replaced by Nico Hulkenberg at the last hour in Germany after the Racing Point driver declared himself unfit to drive. The 21-year-old tested negative […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will not stop standing up for human rights in China — or calling out Beijing for its coercive approach to diplomacy. Trudeau said Friday that includes the situation in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy activists have been protesting a widely criticized national security law imposed on the […]
Retirement and long-term care homes have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but residents at one Ontario home experienced a little extra joy this summer releasing monarch butterflies in their courtyard. Anne MacLean James is a former activation aide at Golden Dawn Senior Citizen Home in Lions Head, Ont., who returned in […]
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hottest ticket item was toilet paper. Now, eight months in? It’s the flu shot. On the advice of public health officials, Canadians are flocking to their family doctors and local pharmacies looking to get immunized against seasonal influenza. The annual vaccine is more important than ever this […]
OTTAWA ― The employment insurance system absorbed almost 1.3 million people in the last three weeks, new figures show, as a key COVID-19 benefit wound down. A breakdown of applications for the simplified EI program shows that overall there had been more than 1.5 million claims as of late this past week, among them 1.15 […]
MONTREAL — Air Canada is still looking to take Transat AT under its wing despite the COVID-19 pandemic that has rocked the airline industry, but it will pay far less than originally expected. The two companies announced Saturday they’d agreed on revised terms that would see Air Canada pay $5 a share for the parent […]
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is urging Ottawa to define what constitutes legal harvesting in a “moderate livelihood” fishery, after a dispute about Indigenous fishing treaty rights boiled over on the weekend. In a statement Saturday on Twitter, McNeil said the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans needs to answer the question of […]
The identity of the owners of anonymous companies who work behind closed doors against the “public good” should no longer be kept private, Charmian Gooch, co-founder of Global Witness, said Tuesday as she received the TED Prize at the TED2014 conference. Anonymous companies, explained Gooch, are extremely cheap and easy to set up and are […]
The rising use of experimental and untested drugs in the execution of U.S. prisoners reached new heights Monday as Oklahoma officials admitted plans to use a new drug combination to execute two men this month. Click Here: Golf special In an email sent to state attorneys, the state said it will be using a combination […]