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Trudeau, Poilievre condemn chant on Parliament Hill glorifying Hamas attack on Israel
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on April 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is condemning a weekend protest on Parliament Hill where a participant openly supported the Hamas attack on Israel last fall. Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre both say such comments are unacceptable. Saturday’s protest, which came more than six months into the Israel-Hamas war, featured Palestinian flags and placards ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: First Nations people more likely to leave ER: data
By The Canadian Press on April 22nd, 2024
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… First Nations patients more likely to leave ER without care, study says Researchers say First Nations patients are more likely to leave Alberta emergency departments before receiving care than non-Indigenous patients. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Feds don’t ‘care if they die,’ says lawyer helping Canadian children held in Syria
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on April 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – Five Canadian children are languishing in a squalid detention camp in northeastern Syria after Ottawa denied their mothers permission to come to Canada, says a lawyer fighting in court on behalf of the families. The development is the latest setback for Canadians among the many foreign nationals in ramshackle centres set up after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!First Nations patients more likely to leave ER without care, study says
By The Canadian Press on April 21st, 2024
Researchers say First Nations patients are more likely to leave Alberta emergency departments before receiving care than non-Indigenous patients. They say a new study shows that anti-Indigenous racism is part of the reason why. Lead author Patrick McLane of the University of Alberta says provincial data from 2012 to 2017 showed 6.8 per cent of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebecers who were in youth protection less likely to graduate, be employed: study
By The Canadian Press on April 21st, 2024
MONTREAL – A recent study commissioned by the Quebec government says young people who had been in the care of the province’s youth protection authorities are less likely to graduate from high school or to be employed than their peers. The study, conducted by researchers at several Quebec universities, found only 37 per cent of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Whale experts confident orca calf will survive, find family if rescue plan succeeds
By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on April 21st, 2024
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – The odds of a two-year old killer whale calf surviving in the open ocean on its own and eventually reuniting with family members remain solid if a rescue team manages to free the orca from the Vancouver Island lagoon where she’s been trapped for nearly a month, whale experts say. A second ... Read More »
1 responseIn domestic abuse, strangulation is a ‘hidden’ predictor of femicide, experts say
By Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press on April 21st, 2024
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Georgina McGrath says she still has to sleep some nights with the windows open, the cold air in her lungs a reminder that she’s far away from the man who used to strangle her. On those nights, she said, she can still feel his hands on her neck. Though the Newfoundland ... Read More »
1 responseSome improvement to Montreal Village but troubles persist, community members say
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
MONTREAL – Members of the community in Montreal’s Village neighbourhood say they’ve seen some improvements to local security and cleanliness, but argue Quebec needs to do more to support vulnerable people in the area. Montreal last June launched a strategy to revitalize the historic LGBTQ district after residents and business owners raised safety concerns amid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man dies months after exoneration
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
FREDERICTON – A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent decades trying to clear his name before being declared innocent by a judge in January has died at the age of 80. Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder convictions, ... Read More »
1 responseCP NewsAlert: Wrongfully convicted N.B man dies four months after exoneration
By The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
FREDERICTON – A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent 40 years trying to clear his name in a murder case before being declared innocent in January has died. Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder convictions, says Gillespie died ... Read More »
1 responseIndigenous healing lodges face chronic underfunding across Canada, critics say
By Ally Lemieux Fanset, Jack Wilson and Faith Greco, The Canadian Press on April 20th, 2024
SAINT-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ, Que. – Every morning, Indigenous men at the Waseskun Healing Centre north of Montreal gather for a healing circle, where they smudge, share stories and sometimes gain spiritual guidance from elders. The centre is the equivalent of a minimum-security prison but here, the men are called residents, rather than inmates, prisoners or offenders. At ... Read More »
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