Category Archives: Social
Study suggests pandemic-induced recession could impact paternity leave take-up rates
OTTAWA — New research suggests a bump in the number of fathers who planned to take time off with a new baby under a nascent national leave program could be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been just over a
Sen. Murray Sinclair, former head of TRC, set to leave the upper chamber next January
OTTAWA — Sen. Murray Sinclair is planning to leave the upper chamber at the end of January. The Manitoba senator says he wants to spend more time writing a memoir and to focus on his work as a legal mentor on
Trudeau says $542M bound for Indigenous bodies to set up child-welfare services
OTTAWA — The federal government is sending $542 million to Indigenous groups to help them set up welfare services for children and families, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. The Canadian government has been promising to transfer control over ...
Tory MP Duncan pushes Health Minister to finally end the gay blood ban
OTTAWA — Eric Duncan, the first openly gay Conservative MP, laced into the federal health minister Thursday over the Liberals failure to end a ban on gay men donating blood. In a heated and emotional exchange during a late-night committee
Advocates aim to shape ‘Vancouver model’ for drug decriminalization
VANCOUVER — City councillors in Vancouver voted unanimously this week to ask the federal government to decriminalize small amounts of illicit drugs for personal use, a decision advocates hope will blaze a trail in other municipalities. It's within Heal...
Essential business distinction leaves some in Peel, Toronto without options
TORONTO — Christmas decorations, clothes and kitchenware are visible from the front window of National Thrift on Toronto's Keele Street, but people who stop by are greeted with a sign on the door that says the store is closed due
Newly imposed rent control won’t solve N.S. affordable housing shortfall: landlords
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's major landlords' association says a two per cent annual cap on rents brought in by the Liberal government won't solve the shortage of affordable housing and may even make it worse. Kevin Russell, executive director of the
B.C. homework assignment asks for ‘positive experiences with residential schools’
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — A school superintendent in British Columbia is apologizing to an Indigenous mother who pointed out a homework assignment that asked students to find "positive experiences with residential schools."Krista MacInnis said she began cryin...
Professional athletes the main beneficiary of national interest exemptions at border
OTTAWA — Four national interest exemptions to COVID-19 border restrictions, covering 1,300 professional athletes, have been issued by the federal immigration minister, his office confirmed Wednesday. The details came after MPs at the House of Commons i...
Five people dying every day from toxic illicit drugs in B.C.: Coroner
VICTORIA — Doctors and nurses are being asked to support British Columbia's safe supply drug program and other substance use measures, as an average of five people a day die from illicit drug overdoses, the B.C. Coroners Service says. There were
