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Saskatchewan wildfires are fierce and firefighters need all the help they can get. But the president Saskatchewan’s volunteer fire fighter association says they are having a hard time recruiting. “I’ve lost a handful of very experienced people that served anywhere from 25 to 55 years on their local department. And trying to bring up the…
Clinics that publish success data can apply for a CFAS compliance seal, but only three, all of them private, have one: Ottawa Fertility Centre, Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine, and Olive Fertility in B.C. The seal indicates statistics are presented in a standardized way, but allows success to be based on “clinical pregnancy” — the…
Australian Federal Police have begun inquiries into allegations that Israeli defence personnel sexually assaulted Australian activists who were detained after joining a humanitarian flotilla attempting to reach Gaza last month. A group of Australian activists met with Foreign Minister Penny Wong at Parliament House on Monday, in an “emotionally charged meeting” where the activists said…
The minister of artificial intelligence, Evan Solomon, took the podium to introduce his boss in glowing terms: a great leader who cared deeply about the “scourge” of antisemitism in Canada. The event was highly anticipated, for some. Canadian Jews have been targeted with increasingly violent and frequent incitement and hatred. Carney has had little, if…
We are blessed to live in Canada, as is anyone fortunate enough to live in the wider western world. An inheritance of liberty, the rule of law, wealth and stability that’s unmatched in all of history is to be cherished and protected. And yet, in country after country, there have been movements to dismantle all…
The Carney government signalled for months that it would pass a law to protect kids from online harms, including by banning access to social media for those under age 16. What we got instead may be the biggest threat to free expression in decades: mandatory censorship of social media and AI. Read More
Now, there is growing uncertainty about the basic foundations of the economy: land title, permits, investment, and even democracy itself. Angus Reid Institute data suggest that 53 per cent of British Columbians think DRIPA has gone too far in curbing the authority of the provincial legislature. Last year, it was 44 per cent. Two-thirds want private property…
Four people have been killed while the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and cultural history, caught fire, in the heaviest Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital in two weeks, authorities say. The fresh strikes came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had spoken to US President Donald Trump and…
The trial of a private schoolboy who allegedly planned to carry out an attack on the Liberal Party has begun in Brisbane. The Crown alleges the defendant, who was 15 at the time, planned to use a bomb to target a public event. He has pleaded not guilty to one count of acts done in…