Category Archives: National
A Liberal candidate is flipping properties in Vancouver. Someone got Twitter to gag me for revealing it.
By Rohana Rezel I tweeted recently about how a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in the upcoming election was engaged in property flipping. This morning, less than a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a snap election,
COVID-19: Quebec minister slams anti-vaccine passport protesters wearing yellow star
MONTREAL — Quebec's minister for the fight against racism is denouncing protesters who he said wore yellow stars at a protest earlier this week against the government's vaccine passport system. People protested Tuesday outside a Montreal-area gym where...
Taliban checkpoints, bureaucratic hurdles limit hope as military lands in Afghanistan
OTTAWA — Ongoing complaints about roadblocks in Kabul and bureaucratic hurdles in Ottawa tempered any sense of relief on Thursday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed on the campaign trail that the Canadian military has arrived back in Afghanis...
‘Waiting to see what their actual true colors are:’ Worries for women in Afghanistan
Canadians observing the Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan say they're skeptical of the group's claims that women's rights will be respected under Islamic law. Recalling the period of Taliban rule in the 1990's, they worry the regime change will ...
B.C. Human Rights office’s first public inquiry will examine white supremacy and hate
VANCOUVER — The first public inquiry from British Columbia's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner will examine white supremacy and the "disturbing surge of hate" during the COVID-19 pandemic. The commissioner's office said in a news release there ha...
Trudeau blames Taliban — not bureaucracy — for pace of evacuations from Afghanistan
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau blamed Taliban checkpoints rather than bureaucratic red tape and delays on Wednesday as his government continued to face questions about the pace of Canada’s effort to evacuate hundreds of Afghans from their country. Yet Trudeau...
Eight-lane tunnel under Fraser River to replace aging crossing in Metro Vancouver
RICHMOND, B.C. — An eight-lane tunnel under the Fraser River will replace an obsolete crossing that has frustrated Metro Vancouver drivers for decades. The B.C. government announced the new tunnel connecting the cities of Delta and Richmond on Highway ...
‘No hope left’: Afghans in Canada who lived under Taliban say regime can’t be trusted
MONTREAL — Quebecer Fakhria Rezaie was seven years old when her family fled Afghanistan and says her memories from life under the Taliban are horrific. Rezaie, 29, says the Taliban's takeover of Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998, the city where she grew up
COVID-19 cases more than double in the Northwest Territories in one day
YELLOWKNIFE — A long-term care home in the Northwest Territories declared a COVID-19 outbreak Wednesday and a hard-hit community asked for policing help as cases in the territory rise steeply. The N.W.T. recorded another 52 new cases Wednesday for a to...
Military officer who led vaccine campaign faces sexual assault charge
OTTAWA — The military officer who led Canada's COVID-19 vaccine distribution campaign has been charged with one count of sexual assault. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin presented himself to police in Gatineau, Que., Wednesday after a warrant for his arrest was i...
