Jul 4 2020 — The Canadian Press — Canada’s sex work laws are creating undue harm and contribute to human rights violations during COVID-19, sex workers and human rights advocates say, which is why they’re now pushing Ottawa to stop enforcing them. Amnesty International Canada has joined a number of rights and sex work advocates in a lobby effort asking federal Justice Minister […]
Jul 4 2020 — The Conversation — I attended Western University in the early 2000s with a cohort of first-generation Black Canadian friends from my high school in Ajax, Ont. At Western, we became active in the Black Student Association (BSA). The BSA pushed the department of English to offer a course on African American literature. They were reportedly told by the […]
Jul 4 2020 — ABC News — President Donald Trump’s trip to Mount Rushmore Friday for flashy fireworks and military flyover was the culmination of his years-long push to bring a July Fourth display back to the larger-than-life monument to four American presidents that has long fascinated him.
Jul 4 2020 — ABC News — Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., tested positive for the novel coronavirus while in South Dakota. She had been expected to attend Friday night’s event at Mount Rushmore. Sources familiar added Trump Jr. tested negative. Neither has been in direct contact with the president and did not fly on […]
Jul 3 2020 — National Post — WE Charity offered Canadian summer camps up to $25,000 in grants as part of the $912-million federal student volunteer program it was awarded by the Liberal government, before cancelling the deal Friday, but only if they brought in no fewer than 75 volunteers over a few months, National Post has learned. On Friday, Prime Minister […]
Jul 3 2020 — Associated Press — The U.S. headed into the Fourth of July weekend with many parades and fireworks displays cancelled, beaches and bars closed and health authorities warning that this will be a crucial test of self-control that could determine the trajectory of the surging coronavirus outbreak in America. With confirmed cases climbing in 40 states, governors and local […]
Jul 3 2020 — The Canadian Press — The Liberal party spent more than it took in the 2019 election year, raising just over $42 million and spending just over $43 million. Financial records released late Friday show that by the end of the year, the party had $625,865 in assets. All political parties had until midnight June 30 to submit their financial […]
Jul 3 2020 — CBC — A newly released audio recording suggests Iran’s highest authorities allowed commercial airliners to fly in and out of Tehran during the period of intense military activity when Flight 752 was shot down — because closing the airspace would have given away the regime’s plan to strike U.S. military bases in Iraq. CBC News obtained a […]
Jul 3 2020 — The Canadian Press — Canada is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as part of a package of responses to the new security law China has imposed on the territory, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Canada will also treat sensitive goods being exported to Hong Kong as if they were being sent to mainland China. “Effective immediately, […]
Jul 3 2020 — The Canadian Press — The United States is once again threatening to spark a fresh tariff war with Canada over aluminum exports, despite the debut of a North American trade agreement that was supposed to usher in stability in the midst of an international economic crisis. Precisely why remains a mystery to trade and industry insiders, although it’s likely […]
Jul 3 2020 — Financial Post — The prime minister is right that we should not capitulate to China and free Meng Wanzhou, CFO of telecom giant Huawei, held on extradition charges in her Vancouver mansion, in exchange for Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, brutally imprisoned in China on bogus charges of espionage. Although the Michaels and their families are suffering terribly, […]
Jul 3 2020 — The Canadian Press — The Trudeau Liberals and WE Charity have parted ways over the management of a $900-million federal program to pay students and fresh graduates for volunteer work this summer, days after the prime minister himself called the organization the only option for success. Instead, public servants will administer the pandemic-related grants, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said […]
Jul 3 2020 — CBC — The armed man arrested after allegedly ramming his truck through the front gate of Rideau Hall always had a friendly word for customers who came to the grocery store where he worked in a small municipality about 400 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, the town reeve said. Corey Hurren, of Bowsman, Man., was a “good community […]
Jul 3 2020 — Global News — After more than three months on temporary layoff, Jake, a waiter at a restaurant in southern Ontario has just gone back to his job. But his return to work presents a dilemma that’s likely familiar to many recipients of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). “It almost feels like we’re being incentivized to make just […]
Jul 2 2020 — Global News — Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet personally blamed NDP leader Jagmeet Singh for fostering a divide on the topic of racism between Quebec and the rest of the country on Thursday. Blanchet said Singh categorized Quebec Premier François Legault as a racist because Legault wouldn’t acknowledge that the province had a systemic issue, and that this […]