Three Mi’kmaq parliamentarians are proposing a new approach to the conflict over the lobster fishery in Atlantic Canada that would bypass Fisheries and Oceans Canada. In a letter addressed to federal ministers and Indigenous leaders, Liberal MP Jaime Battiste of Nova Scotia, Progressive Sen. Brian Francis of Prince Edward Island and […]
A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou accused the United States Wednesday of abusing the privileges of its extradition treaty with Canada to try to deliver the Huawei executive to New York on a faulty set of facts. In a final bid to B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes, Frank Addario […]
Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal will hear the case of an Uber customer who says the ride-hailing company discriminates against him on the basis of his disability. Michael McNeely, 32, who lives in Kingston, Ont., is deaf/blind. His human rights complaint focuses on his limited hearing and Uber’s alleged failure to accommodate it. […]
Nearly two-thirds of Manitoba health-care workers who contracted COVID-19 did so in the past two months, data from the province suggests, and unions representing front-line staff say that’s contributing to burnout. In a seven-week period in August and September, 61 health-care workers tested positive, making up the bulk of the roughly 100 such […]
Quicker, more decisive action against COVID-19 in British Columbia is one of the reasons the province has suffered far fewer long-term care deaths than Ontario, a new study says. The analysis published on Wednesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal also points to less funding, more privatization and less co-ordination between […]
More than a dozen young Canadian activists who filed a lawsuit against the federal government over climate change last fall will soon find out if they can move forward with their claim. The case, La Rose et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen, was initially filed on Oct. 25, 2019, and involves 15 […]
During the last moments of her life, Joyce Echaquan called out her husband’s name: “Carol, come get me.” A live video was rolling on her phone as nurses entered her hospital room on Monday in Joliette, Que. One of them called her “stupid as hell,” mocking Echaquan as she moaned in Atikamekw that she was […]
Chalk it up to the perils of parking overnight on the tarmac of a northern airfield in Canada. A CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopter was damaged earlier this month by what appears to have been a puzzled polar bear in search of a meal. The aircraft belong to 413 Squadron, […]
A key COVID-19 statistic that you won’t hear about during B.C.’s daily health briefings could indicate residents are slowing transmission of the virus. The number of COVID-19 cases detected in a day divided by the number of tests completed that day gives what is called the positivity rate — a number that was […]
Health authorities say that new daily cases of COVID-19 in Ontario could top 1,000 in the first half of October, as the province confirmed another 625 infections of the novel coronavirus. The stark new forecasting comes in updated modelling released Wednesday by the provincial government. On hand to deliver the data were Dr. David […]
