A group that advocates for the rights of migrants is pushing for changes to a recently announced short-term immigration program, calling it unfair, exploitative and exclusionary. Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced last month a new immigration pathway that will allow up to 90,000 essential workers and international graduates already inRead More

Seven rural Manitoba churches hope to convince a judge that the province’s lockdown measures are unjustified violations of Charter-protected freedoms of conscience, religion, expression and peaceful assembly — and that the chief medical officer of health failed to consider the “collateral social and health costs” of locking down society. SinceRead More

Ontario reported 3,369 new cases of COVID-19 and 29 more deaths on Saturday as overall admissions to intensive care units climbed to 900 for the first time. Some 2,152 people in the province remain in hospital because of the infectious disease, a figure that has consistently been trending upward sinceRead More

Two Montrealers were among those killed in a stampede during a religious festival in northern Israel, prompting an outpouring of grief from the local community. The incident took place at a Lag BaOmer event in Mount Meron on Friday, attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, leaving at leastRead More

Thomas Berger, a legend in B.C.’s legal and social justice circles, has died at age 88. The former B.C. Supreme Court judge, NDP politician and lawyer was best known for his work to recognize Indigenous land claims. Berger, who died Wednesday after a battle with cancer, is also being rememberedRead More

Toronto, April 27 The government of Ontario will be getting help from Canada’s military in dealing with a surge of Covid infections, while several other Canadian provinces are tightening health restrictions in hope of avoiding a similar situation. Ontario’s solicitor general says resources are coming from the Canadian armed forcesRead More

Toronto, April 23 The Canadian government has banned all passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days due to the unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases in the region, the longest country-specific travel ban imposed by Canada. The flight ban took effect from Thursday midnight, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra saidRead More

More than 1,500 tree planters from Quebec and Ontario are expected to travel across the country to the B.C. Interior in the next two weeks to help plant millions of seedlings in the midst of a pandemic. They’ll join thousands of B.C. planters who are preparing to work on aRead More

Bathinda, April 20 The Vancouver city council has passed a motion in support of farmers protesting outside New Delhi since November last year. The motion was moved by COPE councillor Jean Swanson and was passed by the 11-member city council. While four councillors joined Swanson in voting in favour, threeRead More

Toronto and Peel Region are issuing orders to force businesses with five or more cases of COVID-19 in the last two weeks to close. Peel’s top doctor said closures will last 10 days if it is found that those infected “could have reasonably acquired their infection at work” or ifRead More