A high-ranking civilian intelligence official with Canada’s national police force accused of preparing to leak highly sensitive information faces three new charges, a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Tuesday. The RCMP’s National Division Sensitive and International… »
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Leader of Venezuela’s opposition gets backing in Canada
Canada wants to see a “united international approach to resolving the crisis in Venezuela,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the visiting Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who was in Ottawa Monday as part of an effort to drum up international… »
Canada History: 28 Jan, 1916: Manitoba is the first to grant the vote to women.
Roughly 120 years ago, Canada was starting to feel the effects of an international social upheaval. Women around the world were demanding the right to vote in elections. Although there had been stirrings of a women’s voting movement long before,… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
Canadian Forces sending aid to Australia
The Canadian Forces are sending 15 military personnel on an transport plane to continue helping the Australians fight the fires. Sending the plane is a part of the Canadian Forces operation Renaissance, the purpose of which is to help out… »
Toronto Raptors honour Kobe Bryant
The news of Kobe Bryant’s death sent shock waves around the world. The Los Angeles Lakers star, Bryant, along with his daughter Gianna, and 7 others passed away in a helicopter accident yesterday. During a game between the Toronto Raptors… »
Canoe federation clears Laurence Vincent Lapointe for competition
The International Canoe Federation has cleared Canadian sprint canoeist Laurence Vincent Lapointe for a return to competition. “After taking into consideration scientific expert evidence provided by Ms Vincent Lapointe’s legal team, and also the miniscule traces of ligandrol found in… »
Canada’s Foreign Minister hopeful for seat on UN Security Council
Canada’s foreign affairs minister François Philippe Champagne is “cautiously optimistic” about the country’s bid to get a seat on the United Nations security council. “I think people recognize that Canada can play a positive role in the world, one which… »
2020 World democracy Index: worrisome decline
The respected U.K-base Economist through its sister ‘intelligence unit’, has released its 2020 democracy index. It rates the level of democracy in some 167 countries based on five categories”: electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, democratic… »
Coronavirus, now possibly two cases in Canada
As concern and preventative measures increase around the world, a second possible case of the Wuhan virus has been reported in Canada. According to Ontario’s chief medical officer, the second presumptive case is the wife of the man who is… »
Health, International, Politics, Society
Remembering the horrors of Auschwitz-75th anniversary of liberation
Seventy-five years ago, on this day, January 27, 1945, that one of the greatest tragedies in history came to an end. Soviet troops entered the extermination camps known as Auschwitz-Birkenau to find 7,000 starving prisoners still alive. Auschwitz was the… »
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