Category Archives: Canada
Polytechnique expands scholarship program to 14 women in memory of 1989 tragedy
MONTREAL - Polytechnique Montral is expanding its scholarship program honouring the 14 women who were killed at the engineering school 36 years ago. The Order of the White Rose scholarship was establi...
Dec 01, 2025
Activists mark World AIDS Day by calling for criminal reform, prevention funding
OTTAWA - Activists marked World AIDS Day on Monday by calling on the federal government to honour a Trudeau government promise to reform the laws on HIV disclosure, and to provide enough funding to ge...
Dec 01, 2025
Miller named new culture minister as Carney fills gaps left by Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney named Montreal MP Marc Miller as the new minister of Canadian identity and culture on Monday in a small cabinet shuffle to fill holes created when Steven Guilbeault...
Dec 01, 2025
Montreal to open 500 new spaces in warming shelters for unhoused people
MONTREAL - The mayor of Montreal says the city's homelessness crisis is "more serious than ever" and addressing it is her top priority. "The crisis that we have in our hands right now in Montreal has ...
Dec 01, 2025
In the news: New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not 'gatekeep' PrEP
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not be 'gatekeeping' PrEP A coalition of doctors across Canad...
Dec 01, 2025
Montreal museum spotlights sex workers history of activism and resistance
MONTREAL - When community group Mile End Chavurah held an event in 2023 to name Jewish Montreal's "new patron saint," Maimie Pinzer was the winning choice. As an activist, Pinzer established a communi...
Dec 01, 2025
New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not be 'gatekeeping' PrEP
A coalition of doctors across Canada is releasing a new guideline for prescribing medications that can prevent HIV infection, with a strong focus on increasing the promotion and awareness of the expan...
Nov 30, 2025
Quebec coroner calls for better pedestrian safety after death of girl, 7, in 2022
MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner is recommending strengthened measures to protect pedestrian safety after the hit-and-run death of a seven-year-old Ukrainian refugee in 2022. Coroner ric Lpine said in a re...
Nov 30, 2025
'Fool's errand': Why the Exxon Valdez looms large over northern pipeline debate
VICTORIA - The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska's coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over plans for a pipeline from Alberta to the northern British Colum...
Nov 30, 2025
UNAIDS chief urges Carney not to cut foreign aid, global health funding
OTTAWA - The head of the United Nations' HIV/AIDS program is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government's planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding. "My message to Prime M...
Nov 30, 2025
