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A women’s advocacy organization and several other groups that support gun control are urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to fully implement a key facet of firearms legislation passed 30 months ago. The measure makes a person subject to a protection order — a legal order often issued in intimate partner violence cases — ineligible to…
The immigration department says it has temporarily paused the finalization of some new citizenship by descent applications after “a few dozen” people were told their issued citizenship certificates must be surrendered pending a review. A statement issued late Wednesday says “the department is reviewing how this occurred” and is taking steps to ensure applications are…
At least FIFA is devoted to growing the game, as Infantino always insists whenever he is asked what he is doing with all that money. To that end, consider the goodies that are for sale at the official FIFA stores throughout the stadium in Toronto. Ahead of the Panama-Ghana game on Wednesday night, Panama T-shirts…
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Sharon Fortney, senior curator of Indigenous collections, engagement and repatriation at the Museum of Vancouver, said the symbol’s roots run far deeper than the Nazi era. “The design on the basket was unfortunately appropriated as a symbol of Nazi Germany, but is a design that sometimes appears on Indigenous made objects from the Plateau region…
The special joint committee on medical assistance in dying’s latest report, released Wednesday afternoon, takes a long, thoughtful and occasionally befuddling path to the simple and correct recommendation: “That the government of Canada amend the Criminal Code to indefinitely exclude persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness from eligibility for medical assistance…
Newcomers to Canada are becoming homeowners at an increasing rate, while homeownership among Canadian-born individuals is declining, according to a new report from Statistics Canada. Read More
Of course, Iran will, as the Islamic Republic always does, cheat and lie from the beginning of the implementation of the peace agreement, and will attempt to recover everything that it will have pledged to give up. The United States has already declared that it will retain heavy forces in the theatre in the near-term,…
For instance, if you believe MAID recipients must be dying imminently to be eligible, if you believe patients must try medically effective treatment before being approved for MAID, and if you believe MAID is only for exceptional or last resort situations, you’re far from alone — this, broadly speaking, is what a majority of Canadians…