Category Archives: Canada
Hierarchical police, military and CSIS in need of harassment reckoning: professor
VANCOUVER - Bonnie Robichaud's ordeal started in the late 1970s when she got a unionized job as a cleaner on a military base in Ontario, and a Department of National Defence employee began sexually ha...
Dec 14, 2023
CSIS to hire impartial reviewer as part of human rights settlement with Black officer
OTTAWA - Canada's spy service has agreed to hire an independent human rights specialist to review its diversity strategy as part of the settlement of a complaint from a Black woman who worked as an in...
Dec 14, 2023
'Damaging': Saskatchewan high school rejects author's talk on son coming out as gay
REGINA - Ruby Remenda Swanson says she never thought her hometown high school would be the only place to bar her from sharing her family's story. Remenda Swanson says she's been to dozens of places in...
Dec 14, 2023
How Canada's UN vote breaks with long-standing policy — and what Israel says about it
OTTAWA - Canada shifted its long-standing stance at the United Nationsto join international calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Tuesday. It marked a departure from years of Ca...
Dec 13, 2023
French actor Gérard Depardieu stripped of Order of Quebec after documentary remarks
QUEBEC - The Quebec government has stripped French actor Grard Depardieu of his Order of Quebec after "shocking" comments made by the actor came to light in a documentary film The release of a documen...
Dec 13, 2023
Canadian cities report rise in homelessness and in tent fires as winter sets in
HALIFAX - Cities across Canada are reporting a rise in fires, sometimes deadly, in tents and other shelters used by unhoused people - a situation advocates say is a tragic consequence of the country's...
Dec 13, 2023
University of Calgary named world's first United Nations University hub for water
CALGARY - The University of Calgary has become the world's first United Nations University hub focused on water. The hub is a partnership between the Calgary university and the United Nations Universi...
Dec 13, 2023
B.C. police seek Interpol notice for return of cocaine smuggler who escaped to India
SURREY, B.C. - Police in British Columbia are asking Interpol to post a red notice for the arrest and return of a Surrey man who escaped to India after being convicted of smuggling cocaine into Canada...
Dec 13, 2023
More non-Indigenous and Indigenous people aware of residential schools: report
WINNIPEG - Research suggests public awareness of past harms from residential schools has increased but more work needs to be done educating Canadians on lasting impacts of the institutions. Researcher...
Dec 13, 2023
Alberta researchers call for public inquiry into program to ensure oilsands cleanup
Alberta university researchers are calling for an open public inquiry into a provincial program designed to ensure oilsands producers can pay to clean up after themselves. They say the agreement at an...
Dec 13, 2023
