Christopher Plummer, the Canadian classical actor who starred in everything from Shakespeare to musicals and from comedy to drama but won his greatest fame for portraying Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at 91. Plummer died… »
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Prime minister seeks to reassure Canadians on vaccine delays
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reassured Canadians that six million doses of COVID-19 vaccine will be delivered by the end of March 2021. His government has come under fire as early deliveries of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have ground… »
Masks now mandatory for middle and secondary school student in British Columbia
Masks are now mandatory for all middle and secondary school students across British Columbia in all indoor settings, according to new health and safety guidelines announced by the province on Thursday. However there will be some exceptions to the new… »
Job losses in January are most in Canada since the pandemic hit in the spring
As the vaccine rollout lags and COVID-19’s lethal variants–increasingly–make their presence felt, Canada’s economy has taken a hit for the second month in a row. It was a big one. Statistics Canada reported today the economy lost 213,000 jobs in… »
New Democratic Party calls for end to for-profit long-term care homes
Canada’s New Democratic Party has called for an end to for-profit long term care homes and to implement a care guarantee that aims to protect people in long-term care and the workers that care for them. In an announcement on… »
Marchers to protest Chad regime in Montreal
Members of the Chadian diaspora are organizing a march in downtown Montreal to protest the rule of Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno and what they call his “miserable and unworthy” efforts to stay in power. It takes place on February… »
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Cruise vessels in Canadian waters remain banned until February 2022
The temporary measures banning cruise vessels in all Canadian waters and pleasure craft in Canadian Arctic waters will continue to be in place until February 2022, according to an announcement from Transport Canada on Thursday. The announcement means that pleasure… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Momentum builds to make Canada jay the national bird
Canada has a national tree, a national mammal, two national sports and a national horse, but it does not have an official bird. So, goes the opening argument from Team Canada Jay, a group of people dedicated to making the… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Report finds Canada, like others, not exempt from ‘Transnational Repression’
A new report from Freedom House, a Washington-based NGO that researches democracy, political freedom and human rights, says Canada is one of many countries whose citizens are being harassed, hounded and–sometimes–violently threatened in their homelands and overseas by hostile regimes.… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Privacy commissioners call facial recognition service illegal
Canada’s privacy commissioner and three of his provincial counterparts say a facial recognition tool sold by technology company Clearview constitutes mass surveillance and is illegal in Canada. “It is an affront to individuals’ privacy rights and inflicts broad-based harm on… »
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