Month: June 2020

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is “appalled” a for-profit long-term care company has committed to pay $10.7 million in dividends to shareholders so far this year, while it spent only $300,000 of its own money on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Extendicare is a Markham, Ont.-based company that owns 69 long-term care and retirement homes…

TORONTO — Julie Wheeler expected 2020 to be the year Sunnyside Home adopted a new approach to caring for its residents. At a public ceremony in January, the home’s administrator announced the Kitchener, Ont. long-term care facility, would adopt the “Butterfly Household Model” of care. Wheeler said the model, which moves a facility away from…

A pilot drew a raised fist in the sky over Nova Scotia Thursday to honour George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by police in Minneapolis on May 25. Floyd’s death has spurred protests in the U.S., Canada and other around the world against racism and police brutality. Dimitri Neonakis wanted to send a…

Ryan Gosling pourrait intégrer le casting du nouveau projet de Terrence Malick… si l’on en croit Nicolas Winding Refn. Lui-même annoncé un peu partout ces derniers temps (l’effet Drive), Nicolas Winding Refn a expliqué lors d’une séance de questions-réponses que “son” acteur Ryan Gosling pourrait travailler prochainement (après le tournage d’Only God Forgives et avant…

Formula 1 has been advised by the FIA that it may scrap its pre-race grid build-up this summer to ensure physical distancing and safety at upcoming events. The sport’s governing body has published a series of guidelines for event organisers in which it advises on how to analyse and manage health risks at events in…

TORONTO — The agency that investigates police conduct in encounters resulting in serious injury will begin collecting race-based data later this year, it said on Thursday, but critics say the information by itself will have little effect on addressing racial inequities in policing. Currently, the Special Investigations Unit only collects data on the age and…

Click:wps官网下载 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out swinging against Conservatives Thursday over his minority government’s failure to quickly pass emergency legislation to send financial aid to Canadians living with disabilities. “The Conservatives’ choice to put politics ahead of helping people will have caused extra hardship for Canadians,” he said during a press conference at an…

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — New video has emerged of the violent arrest of a prominent chief of a northern Alberta First Nation. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says the RCMP dash-camera video was released publicly as part of a court application to get criminal charges against Chief Allan Adam stayed. The 12-minute video, posted by…

WASHINGTON — Public anger over the police killing of George Floyd is unearthing difficult questions in the United States, Canada and around the world about statues, monuments and other permanent tributes to historical figures whose legacies include oppression, racism and cruelty. For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, there’s only one answer: the time to do away with…

The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) says a decision to increase their wages by only 1 per cent is “insulting and demeaning” given that nurses have been at the front lines of the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses have been in an almost year-long fight with the province for wage increases since Premier Doug…