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Canada’s fentanyl czar, Kevin Brosseau, said in a statement: “While it is encouraging to see the national rates of drug toxicity deaths in decline, we know there is much more work to be done. We are deploying all the tools at the federal government’s disposal and working collaboratively with other levels of government, law enforcement…
The case before the court had been brought by an Acadian activist group that challenged the appointment of a non-French-speaker, Brenda Murphy, to the position of lieutenant governor of New Brunswick. Six of the Supreme Court’s nine judges agreed with the Acadians, concluding that the lieutenant governor must speak both English and French. Appointing an…
The Leger survey, conducted on behalf of the Association for Canadian Studies, found that 31 per cent held that view, while the highest level of agreement was concentrated among university students (37 per cent), men (38 per cent) and Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34 (35 per cent). English speakers were more than…
“We’re not interested in kits being put together in Canada,” Carney told reporters on Wednesday. “We’re interested if there are joint-venture partnerships, Canadian controlled, substantial value-add, Canadian labour standards, substantial jobs, et cetera, that are consistent with that.”
When Roy Romanow was premier of Saskatchewan, he had a saying that can be paraphrased: when observers or commentators offer political statements or opinions, they are in my bailiwick and I shall be free to respond as I see fit. Read More
Someone needs to gather Canada’s Conservative leaders into a room together and press them on what it is they think they’re doing. Read More
Fertility Inc. is a multi-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry: its aggressive marketing, its high costs, and the chances of an eventual successful pregnancy. Read More
Burn specialists at an Ontario hospital say they have carried out a world-first treatment using a novel biological therapy to treat a young woman severely injured in a house fire. Hamilton Health Sciences said its team used exosomes — tiny particles released by cells that help coordinate healing and reduce inflammation — to treat 18-year-old…
An Ontario jail has been forced to scale back its operations and take some of its servers offline after suffering an unidentified cyber breach at the beginning of the month. Staff at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., realized the jail had suffered a “breach related to its security systems” sometime on June…