Health care and social services see record vacancy levels Job vacancies reached a record quarterly high of nearly one million in the first three months of 2022, continuing a trend started in the first quarter of 2016. Statistics Canada data shows the number of job vacancies increased 2.7 per cent […]
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By Erika Ibrahim
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Last month, British Columbia became the first jurisdiction in Canada to make changes to ensure drug users will not be arrested or charged for carrying up to 2.5 grams of illicit drugs as of next year. It’s the first jurisdiction in the country that will decriminalize possession of […]
By Stephen Wade
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO (AP) – The final price tag for last year’s COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics was put at $13 billion (1.4 trillion Japanese yen), the organizing committee said Tuesday in its final act before it is dissolved at the end of the month. The cost was twice what was forecast in 2013 […]
By Lori Ewing
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse has been knocked out of the national track and field championships by COVID-19 just a month before the worlds. The six-time Olympic medallist had been rounding into form after an early-season foot injury, winning the 100 metres at the Oslo Diamond League meet last […]
Dan Leavens Sr. and Jr. spend some time on Rainy Lake together for Father’s Day weekend, and enjoyed some success. They caught these, and more, in a day of catch and release fishing. – Submitted by Mary Ann Laevens
By Mia Rabson
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada will ban companies from importing or making plastic bags and Styrofoam takeout containers by the end of this year, their sale by the end of next year and their export by the end of 2025. The move to ban exports will be a welcome […]
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By Allison Jones in Toronto
By Allison Jones in Toronto
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet will be sworn in on Friday, as he gets set to name an executive council out of his new and larger Progressive Conservative caucus. The ceremony is set to take place at 10 a.m., followed by remarks by the premier. Invitations have gone out to […]
By Tyler Griffin
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) says the province is facing an increase in the rate of farmland loss as urban sprawl swallows up land previously used for growing. The farmer-led organization called on municipal governments and the province Saturday to better protect farmland and food production when planning new […]
By Paola Loriggio
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
An Ottawa-area woman and a civil rights group are asking an Ontario court to strike down a law they say allows officials in Ontario jails and detention centres to strip search those in custody “even in the absence of any specified reason or security rationale.” The constitutional challenge was filed […]
By Kelly Geraldine Malone
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WINNIPEG – A 92-year-old retired priest has been charged after a decade-long investigation into the Fort Alexander Residential School in Manitoba. Arthur Masse faces one count of indecent assault in relation to a 10-year-old girl who was a student at the school, RCMP said Friday. The alleged offence took place […]
By Bill Graveland
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY – It could be a character on a Saturday morning kids show, but this rescue robot is anything but fantasy. “It’s not science fiction. It’s science and this thing exists,” said Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano at the unmanned vehicles robotarium lab at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of […]
By Jill Lawless
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON (AP) – Britain is facing its biggest rail strikes for decades after last-minute talks between a union and train companies failed to reach a settlement over pay and job security. Up to 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and station staff are due to walk out for three days this […]
