The city of Toronto is considering taking oil companies to court over the costs of climate change. Several U.S. cities have launched similar lawsuits against producers of fossil fuels. And the western city of Victoria is going to ask a… »
Highlights / Year: 2019
Quebec Catholic dioceses commission external audit into allegations of sexual abuse
Five Quebec Catholic dioceses have commissioned a retired judge to scour through their archives to assess the number and the nature of “well-founded allegations” of sexual abuse of minors made against Catholic clergy and lay staff employed by the church… »
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Statistics reveal a major increase in Halifax racial profiling
A study released Wednesday appears to confirm what members of Nova Scotia’s black community have been saying for years: police profiling and street checks are getting worse–not better–in Halifax, the provincial capital. The report found that black people in the… »
Whither the 2019 Blue Jays? Pondering the possibilities…
The Blue Jays open their 2019 season Thursday afternoon in Toronto. Hopes are high, of course. That’s the nature of the game. Everybody’s even on Opening Day, they say (forgetting, as we must this year, that two games have already… »
Manitoba launches campaign to combat sexual harassment
Manitoba has launched a government-wide campaign to combat sexual harassment. It includes posters that clearly define what constitutes sexual harassment and messages that discourage people from making jokes or sending emails about gender. “What might have been dismissed as a… »
Four years on, no end in sight for Yemen war
As Yemen marks Tuesday the fourth anniversary of the conflict that has ravaged what was already the Middle East’s poorest country, turning it into the worst man-made humanitarian crisis in the world, experts see little hope for optimism. With the… »
Aid groups call for ramp-up in assistance to countries hit by Cyclone Idai
United Nations agencies and humanitarian aid groups are calling on the international community to boost assistance to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, which in the words of UN Secretary General António Guterres have suffered “one of the worst weather-related catastrophes in… »
Unions condemn widespread violence against long-term care workers
Two new reports show there is a high level of violence, abuse and harassment against people employed in long-term care facilities in the province of Ontario. In one of them, survey results suggest 88 per cent of personal support workers… »
Canada fined millions for keeping mentally ill inmates in solitary
A court has ruled Canada’s penitentiary service will have to pay tens of millions of dollars for holding inmates it knew were mentally ill in solitary confinement. In what the service calls administrative segregation, inmates are isolated in very small… »
Police arrest one man in Chinese student’s kidnapping case
Police investigators have arrested a 35-year-old Toronto man in connection with the armed kidnapping of a Chinese citizen studying in Canada, but have yet to locate the missing man, York Regional Police announced Tuesday. Wanzhen Lu, 22, was grabbed by… »
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