Canada is pledging $100 million over the next five years to help Caribbean island nations recover from the devastation and damage caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Canadian officials announced Tuesday at a pledging conference in New York. The… »
Highlights / Canadian headlines
Canadian headlines
Arts & Entertainment, Highlights, Society
Major auction of Canadian art; more record sales?
Toronto fine art auction house Heffel is again selling some major artworks on an online auction today. Featured are works by the renowned Canadian artist Lawren S Harris. He was the founder of iconic Canadian artists known as The Group… »
Embarrassed, Canadian university apology comes after public exposure
(to post or read comments, scroll to very bottom of story) Ontario university widely condemned by national and international media Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, (WLU) has apologized to a teaching assistant over their handling of a complaint against… »
Fixing Ottawa’s troubled pay system will take years and more than $540M: auditor general
Fixing the federal government’s troubled pay system will take years and far more than the $540 million the Liberal government has set aside to clean up the mess, Canada’s auditor general said Tuesday. In his Fall 2017 report tabled in Parliament… »
Highlights, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics
Canada braces for a potential flood of asylum claimants
(to post or read public comments on all RCI stories, scroll to very bottom of page) It was a U.S programme called Temporary Protection Status (TPS). It granted tens of thousands of Haitians and others, temporary ability to live and… »
Tax system failed to answer millions of calls: auditor-general
Tax department often didn’t answer or got it wrong, says report As if paying taxes weren’t bad enough, the auditor-general has found that 29 million telephone calls could not get through to the tax department out of a total of… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Ottawa issues 3 more fines for speed limit violations in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Transport Canada has fined three more vessels for allegedly going faster than the speed limit imposed by Ottawa in August in the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, federal officials… »
Richest Canadian literary prize awarded to Michael Redhill
At a lavish gala in Toronto, an emotional Michael Redhill accepted the Giller Prize saying: “For the people in my life, thank you for accepting me for the deranged person that I am.” He won $100,000 for his novel called… »
Medals for “unsung heroes” (and Senators)
About half of Canada’s Senators are accepting medals for themselves which have been struck to give to Canadians who have contributed to make Canada a better place but who don’t usually make the headlines or get recognition. Earlier this year… »
International, Politics, Society
United Steelworkers seeks Ottawa’s help for striking Mexican miners at Canadian-operated mine
One of the largest Canadian trade unions is calling on the federal government to intervene with Mexican authorities and a Canadian mining company after two people were killed near a Canadian-operated gold mine in the country’s southern Guerrero state on… »
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