Local CUPE members took part in a political protest on Friday, to fight a legislation which imposed a contract and made a strike illegal. The political action closed school locally and across the province on Friday and today. However, this morning Premier Doug Ford offered to repeal the legislation in […]

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is justifying his proposal to remove land from the environmentally protected Greenbelt in order to build homes by saying the housing crisis has worsened and will become more dire because of increased immigration. Ford says he welcomes a recent federal government announcement that it is seeking […]

By Nicole Thompson
THE CANADIAN PRESS

A “frenzied and sleep-deprived” Ontario Labour Relations Board hearing to determine the legality of a strike by education workers stretched into a third and final day on Sunday, with a government lawyer arguing it doesn’t matter whether the contract that now binds 55,000 employees was negotiated with their input or […]

By Eric Shih
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source

Two men from the Rainy River area are out thousands of dollars and have had their hunting licences suspended after shooting a deer from a roadway and trespassing on private property. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry released details of the case involving two men from Devlin, which took […]

By Stephanie Taylor
THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – The mayor of Windsor, Ont., will testify today at a public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to clear ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters blockading streets around Parliament Hill and several border crossings. The scheduled testimony from Drew Dilkens comes as a piece of evidence shows […]

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MONTREAL – Quebec’s highest court is set to begin hearing appeals on the constitutionality of the province’s secularism law, known as Bill 21. Both the Quebec government and groups opposing the law are challenging an April 2021 court decision that largely upheld the controversial religious symbols law, while striking down […]

By Cara Anna
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – A new round of talks began Monday between Ethiopia’s government and Tigray regional representatives to work out military and other details of last week’s signing of a “permanent” cessation of hostilities in a two-year conflict thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. The meetings […]

By Samuel Petrequin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

French construction company Vinci said on Monday that one of its subsidiaries has been summoned by an investigating judge to answer charges that it did not respect the rights of migrant workers who were hired to build infrastructure for the World Cup in Qatar. The charges relate to a complaint […]

By Jim Gomez
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Philippine authorities filed murder complaints on Monday against a top prisons official and an aide who they accused of masterminding the killing of a radio commentator in a crime they said showed how the country’s prisons system had been turned into a “criminal organization.” The complaints […]