Month: April 2019

Mark Farrant asked himself a natural question after he was summoned for jury duty. How am I going to get out of this? It’s the same thought that dogged him long after the 2014 trial wrapped with a guilty verdict in the murder of a young woman, when the darkness of that experience followed him…

It didn’t take long for the death threats to start. Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13-year-old environmental activist, had just been featured in an Agence France-Pressearticle republished by Breitbart News about dozens of students staging a “die-in” at United Nations headquarters in New York. Villaseñor was protesting that day in mid-March for the same reason that she…

MONTREAL — Quebec’s deputy premier and public safety minister is urging those affected by flooding to exercise extreme caution and vigilance as rising water levels continue to wreak havoc on the province after claiming a life. “Do not take unnecessary risks, please,” Genevieve Guilbault said at the Ti-Oui Snack Bar in Saint-Raymond on Saturday. The…

MONTREAL — Mental health issues have been making headlines, and new data from Quebec’s health-care system has revealed an increase in youth hospitalizations related to suicide. According to statistics compiled for HuffPost Quebec by the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec (INSPQ), the rate at which children and teens ages 10 – 19 are…

MONTREAL — The Quebec government called for federal assistance Friday — including Canadian Forces soldiers on the ground — as the province braces for heavy spring flooding over the weekend. The risk level hasn’t changed in recent days, but authorities now expect the brunt of flooding will begin on Sunday and last longer than expected,…

MONTREAL — Plans to celebrate a Concordia University college’s 40th anniversary are in disarray after the school decided to disinvite a Harvard professor because of his controversial views on feminism. Last November, the Montreal university’s Liberal Arts College asked Harvey Mansfield, a professor of government at Harvard, to speak during a gala scheduled for May.…

PARIS — More than $1 billion in donations have poured in for the vast restoration of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral, but a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that it will be completed within five years was facing accusations of being wildly off track. Macron said the renovations to restore iconic 19th century spire,…

OTTAWA — A new commemorative loonie is sparking concern among academics and advocates who fear it could perpetuate myths about Canada’s treatment of lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and two spirited persons. The Royal Canadian Mint will unveil the new one dollar coin in Toronto next week as it joins government departments and agencies to mark…

More than half of Canadians think it is not only a good idea but a necessary one to bring in term limits for elected officials, a new poll suggests. According to numbers the Angus Reid Institute released Thursday, 54 per cent of respondents told the firm that term limits for elected politicians are necessary, while…

TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government released a new ad against the federal carbon tax Wednesday that the opposition decried as publicly funded partisan advertising — something the Tories railed against before they were in power. The ad features a female narrator saying the tax will see people pay more to heat their home, drive…