Since early April, health officials around the world have been on alert for healthy, young children suddenly developing severe cases of hepatitis with no known cause. According to the latest estimates by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), there are atContinue Reading
In the month since Russia’s retreat from Ukraine’s north, the capital Kyiv has seen a frenzy of high-profile visitors: 11 prime ministers, Austria’s chancellor, the U.S. secretaries of state and defence, its House speaker, the UN secretary-general — even Hollywood star Angelina Jolie. Canada has not sent even a cabinet minister. Ukraine has noticed.Continue Reading
It will become a tad more expensive to move to Canada with permanent residency come May. On April 5, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) updated on their website that Canada was increasing fees for all permanent residence (PR) applications, including economic, permit holder, family and humanitarian classes. The change will come intoContinue Reading
On Tuesday, April 5, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which would ensure that major digital platforms fairly compensate news publishers for their content and enhance fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace, including the sustainability of independent local news businesses. Eligibility criteria The legislation wouldContinue Reading
Today, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pablo Rodriguez, introduced Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which would establish a new legislative and regulatory framework to ensure fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace and for independent local news businesses, including rural and remote news organizations, by ensuring that news media andContinue Reading
The federal government is allowing Canadian employers to hire significantly more temporary foreign workers as part of changes to its immigration rules, a move aimed at easing labour shortages that have aggravated businesses during the recovery from the pandemic. The federal employment ministry announced changes to the Temporary Foreign WorkerContinue Reading
The Government of Canada continues to be committed to advancing gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. Today, at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development, celebrated International Women’s Day by announcing the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund, the next phase of the $6-billion Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. The Minister was joined by Julie Dabrusin, MemberContinue Reading
Ontario is moving to deregulate traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture because the current system prevents people who only speak Cantonese or Mandarin from writing licensing exams, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday. Practitioners said they were shocked by the proposal because they had not been calling for it, nor were they consulted. ButContinue Reading
On Sunday, dozens of riot police descended on this illegal camp beside an Ottawa baseball stadium, seizing diesel and gasoline, stunning protesters. “That they came in and they were taking the fuel they were showing force by standing there with their weapons.” This was a targeted strike to choke offContinue Reading
Like driving through a blizzard, pandemic uncertainty is exhausting. Some are now impatiently racing towards any light on the horizon, but no one knows what’s up ahead. As director general from world health organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “It’s premature for any country either to surrender or to declare victory.”Continue Reading
