Efforts to deal with COVID-19 continue in Canada as the number of cases continues to rise. The latest cases in Ontario are a woman who returned to Kitchener from Italy and a man who returned to Toronto from Iran. Meanwhile.… »
Highlights / Year: 2020
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Tension as migrants mass at Greek border
Turkey has said it can no longer support the mass influx of migrants from Syria and elsewhere. It says it will no longer keep them from attempting to cross into Greece and Bulgaria as they seek to head into European… »
Yukon abandons seasonal time change
People living in the Yukon will change their clocks for the seasonal time change for the last time this weekend. The territorial government of Yukon made the announcement Wednesday that Yukon will remain on Pacific Daylight Saving Time after Yukoners… »
Via Rail joins CN in recalling workers as barricades come down
Via Rail says most of the 1,000 employees it laid off at the height of the rail blockades in support of British Columbia’s Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs’ opposition to the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline running through their territory will be… »
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Portraits of Black Canadian – Episode 27
Slavery Remembered The abolition of slavery was commemorated in 2004.
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Portraits of Black Canadian – Episode 26
Black History Month Every February Canadians celebrate the history of Blacks in Canada.
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Portraits of Black Canadian – Episode 25
Donovan Bailey The athlete’s meteoric rise to fame is one of Canada’s remarkable success stories.
Buddhists sites and temples are vandalized in Montreal
Montreal police have confirmed they are investigating acts of vandalism at Buddhist temples that have left members of the city’s Asian community angry, puzzled and saddened. A volunteer at one of the temples, Louis Le, says he believes the acts… »
Rail blockades in Quebec remain despite Wet’suwet’en agreement
Despite the “proposed arrangement” between the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and the Canadian and British Columbia governments, two rail blockades remain in Quebec. However protesters from Kahnawake and Listuguj remain are now undecided on whether or not the blockades will come… »
Fraud, identity theft increasing, Canadians seem complacent
The agency which tracks all types of fraud in Canada estimates the cost of mass marketing fraud, (phone, internet, mass mailing, e-mail, personal contact) to be almost $130 million per year. This is what is reported, but apparently only a… »
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