Month: May 2020

OTTAWA — An Ontario centre that helps women and girls who have been victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation has to shut one of its key support programs next month due to a federal fund that has expired, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Megan Walker, executive director of the London Abused Women’s Centre,…

B.C. RCMP are looking for help to identify a suspect who attacked an 84-year-old woman who was using a walker.  Police released a video (watch above) showing the April 3 Burnaby, B.C. incident near the Metrotown Skytrain station.  The Asian senior was walking alone when she fell after she was tripped by the female suspect.…

Novices dans le cinéma de Gus van Sant, Mia Wasikowska et Henry Hopper reviennent sur leur expérience, aux côtés du réalisateur, à l’occasion de la sortie en salles du très beau et très doux “Restless”. Habitué des festivités cannoises, Gus Van Sant était encore une fois de la partie cette année, dans la catégorie Un…

EU Confidential #154: Commission’s €750B recovery plan — Battles ahead — Making ‘Parlement’ funny By Cristina Gonzalez 5/28/20, 9:53 PM CET Listen to the podcast on Spotify | Apple | Google | Soundcloud | Stitcher The European Commission this week unveiled a sweeping €750 billion proposal to get the EU’s economies back on track. POLITICO’s budget guru Lili Bayer, along with Andrew Gray, Matthew…

EDMONTON — The Alberta Opposition says Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservatives have a new “sugar daddy” in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and should not accept a federal COVID-19 wage subsidy the party has applied for. NDP finance critic Shannon Phillips says Kenney and his colleagues need to do more for Albertans fighting to get through…

OTTAWA — Canada joined with its major allies Thursday in condemning China for imposing a new national security law on Hong Kong, one day after a contentious B.C. court ruling in the Meng Wanzhou affair. The statement of “deep concern” with the United States, Australia and Britain comes as experts are warning that two Canadians…

TORONTO — Inspectors refused to go into long-term care homes early in the COVID-19 pandemic because they feared for their safety, prompting the government to call in the military, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday. Some of the inspectors were carrying out inspections by phone in April because they were afraid of contracting the novel coronavirus,…

TORONTO — Toronto’s mayor says he hopes an investigation into the death of a woman who reportedly fell from her 24th-floor balcony while police were in her home will give the community the answers it needs. John Tory offered condolences Thursday to the family and friends of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, and said he knows questions have been…

OTTAWA — The Canadian researcher who was among the first to predict the deadly spread of COVID-19 says the world needs to change the way it monitors for and reacts to disease outbreaks. Dr. Kamran Khan set out to make a “smoke alarm” that would detect disease outbreaks around the world when he created his…

OTTAWA — An Ontario centre that helps women and girls who have been victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation has to shut one of its key support programs next month due to a federal fund that has expired, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Megan Walker, executive director of the London Abused Women’s Centre,…