Category Archives: National
Two new Arctic and offshore patrol ships named in honour of Canadian naval heroes
HALIFAX — Two of Canada's new Arctic and offshore patrol ships were formally named on Sunday in a move intended to preserve the stories of two of the country's naval heroes during the Second World War. Bottles of Nova Scotian
Quebec’s use of notwithstanding clause in language law opens constitutional debate
MONTREAL — When federal Justice Minister David Lametti reacted last week to the adoption of Quebec's language law reform, he took aim at the provincial government's proactive use of the notwithstanding clause to shield the law from constitutional chall...
Ukrainian victims of sexual violence need reproductive health care: Sajjan
OTTAWA — International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says he told Canadian officials in Ukraine and neighbouring countries to ensure that women sexually assaulted by Russian troops get the help they need — including access to abortions if they wis...
Second federal flight carrying Ukrainians bound for Canada lands in Montreal
MONTREAL — Dozens of well-wishers bearing balloons and flowers packed a Montreal airport on Sunday to welcome hundreds of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their home country and poised to begin rebuilding their lives in Canada. The second of three
Understanding B.C.’s old-growth logging deferrals by the numbers
A process is underway in British Columbia to temporarily defer logging in priority old-growth forests, allowing time for the government to work with First Nations to decide how they should be managed in the long term. The province appointed a five-memb...
B.C. wants First Nations to agree before old-growth logging deferred on shared lands
The British Columbia government wants First Nations to reach consensus before logging is deferred in old-growth forests on shared Indigenous territories. Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow Nation's hereditary chiefs' office in north...
Calling social conservatives dinosaurs was ‘wrong terminology’, says Patrick Brown
OTTAWA — Federal Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown says calling social conservatives "dinosaurs" in a book he wrote about his time in Ontario politics was "the wrong terminology" "I guess a better way to articulate that would be to say:...
Migrant women workers continue to face abortion access barriers: advocates
OTTAWA — While she has helped several migrant workers access abortion services in Canada, Evelyn Encalada Grez said one woman comes to mind. “The migrant woman was so afraid of being found out that she needed to be taken by
Canada raids emergency stockpile to send medical equipment to Ukraine
OTTAWA — Canada has tapped into its own strategic stockpile of emergency medical supplies — stored for a national emergency — to help Ukraine. It has donated over 375,000 items of medical equipment and medicines from Canada's strategic stockpile since...
Police waited 45 minutes to breach classroom in Uvalde, believing kids not at risk
WASHINGTON — Public safety officials admitted to a deadly lapse in judgment while gun-rights advocates were deferential but defiant Friday as a divided, heartbroken nation continued to mourn the lives of 19 fourth-grade students and their two teachers ...