TORONTO – Ontario’s long-term care minister says the province is giving $1.25 billion in the next fiscal year to homes for hiring and staff retention. The province has committed to ensuring long-term care residents receive, on average, four hours of direct care per day by March 31, 2025. The money […]
Canada
By James McCarten
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden will spend two days in Canada beginning Thursday to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and speak to a joint session of Parliament, his first visit north of the border since taking the oath of office in 2021. Visits to Canada have historically been […]
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EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the families of two Edmonton police officers who were fatally shot this week are each to receive $100,000 from the province’s Heroes’ Fund. Smith made the announcement Saturday during her weekly provincewide radio program while addressing the deaths of Const. Brett Ryan and […]
By Mickey Djuric
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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OTTAWA – Google said it will volunteer some of its top executives to testify at a parliamentary committee that is studying the actions of the Silicon Valley giant after it ran a five-week test that blocked news links to some of its Canadian users. The test was meant to assess […]
By Allison Jones and Liam Casey
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Ontario is failing to effectively protect some of the critical habitat for boreal caribou, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has warned in a letter to the province. Ontario Environment Minister David Piccini is announcing Wednesday that the province will spend $29 million over four years to support boreal caribou habitat restoration, […]
By Jordan Omstead
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TORONTO – Multiple murderer Dellen Millard said he was cast as the “perfect villain” in Tim Bosma’s murder, asking Ontario’s highest court Wednesday why he would be so “sloppy and careless” if he had planned to kill the 32-year-old father. Millard is representing himself before the Ontario Court of Appeal […]
By Patrice Bergeron
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AMQUI, Que. – The driver of a pickup truck that killed two people and injured nine others Monday in the Quebec town of Amqui was facing dangerous driving charges after police said he drove into pedestrians chosen at random, including children. Court documents signed Tuesday by a justice of the […]
By Brett Bundale
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Tonya Johnson, 39, is single, happy and freezing her eggs to buy a little more time before she starts a family. The procedure is costly – as much as $15,000 for one egg freezing cycle with medication – putting it out of reach for many. But Johnson works for one […]
By Kiera O'Neil, Manager, Developmental Psychobiology Research Centre, Mount Saint Vincent University and Jennifer E. Khoury, Assistant Professor, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Mount Saint Vincent University
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought changes to many people’s daily lives, and resulted in high levels of mental health problems. The pandemic was especially difficult for pregnant people. New research investigates the long-term impact of the pandemic on pregnant and postpartum people and their infants. There is concern that the difficulties […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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An Ontario board of health is asking the province to amend the building code to mandate higher standards for ventilation, in light of the spread of COVID-19. The chair of the board of health in Peterborough, Ont., wrote this month to Health Minister Sylvia Jones and Municipal Affairs and Housing […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Ontario’s libraries are asking the government to create a provincewide digital public library, to ensure residents in smaller municipalities have the same access to materials as people in large, urban centres. Libraries are mostly funded by municipalities, so each library system has to purchase their own material, said Dina Stevens, […]
By Jordan Omstead
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The jury that found Mark Smich guilty of helping his once-close friend Dellen Millard murder an ex-lover was not properly told how to balance the evidence against him, his lawyer argued before Ontario’s highest court Monday. But the Crown says the cases against the two men for the murder of […]
