Month: June 2020

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia park that straddles the 49th parallel with Washington state will be closed because it’s overwhelmed with visitors using it as a cross-border meeting point. The government says Peace Arch Provincial Park was scheduled to be shut Thursday evening to address public safety and traffic concerns after the volume of visitors…

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s premier says there’s no excuse for “dehumanizing behaviour” after some emergency room staff were accused of playing a game to guess the blood-alcohol levels of Indigenous patients. “I am outraged by reports of ugly, anti-Indigenous, racist behaviour at multiple health-care facilities in B.C.,” John Horgan said in a statement Friday. “No…

WINNIPEG — Leadership at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is apologizing for censoring displays about LGBTQ history at the request of some school groups. Six members of the executive team signed an apology released Friday that says the practice was contrary to everything the museum stands for. It comes a week after…

TORONTO — An Ontario bill will make it harder to launch class action lawsuits like the ones accusing nursing homes of negligence during the COVID-19 pandemic, lawyers and advocates say. “If Bill 161 is law, our most vulnerable citizens, seniors in long-term care homes overrun with COVID, will not be able to use class actions to…

Découvrez le clip de “When We Were Young” de Take That, chanson qui servira pour le générique de fin des “Trois mousquetaires” de Paul W.S. Anderson. On se doutait un peu, en voyant la bande-annonce, que Les Trois Mousquetaires de Paul W.S. Anderson allaient plus être à cheval sur les cascades que sur la vérité historique.…

Les moqueries et intimidations subies par les adolescentsaméricains LGBTQ+ sont encore très fréquentes aux Etats-Unis, révèle un nouveau sondage. L’enquêtementionne un taux de brimades subies par les camarades de classe deux fois plus élevé chez les adolescents LGBTQ+ que chez les jeunes hétérosexuels interrogés dans le cadre de précédentes études. Parue dans l’ American Journal…

Racing Point technical director Andy Green says physical distancing and safety protocols will impact life in the garage this year, with lead times associated with many tasks increasing significantly. Racing Point warmed up its 2020 car and crews at a filming day at Silverstone yesterday, the purpose of which was mainly to practice part of…

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OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s accusation that a Bloc Quebecois MP is a racist has boiled over into a second day of tense exchanges in Ottawa. Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet defended the actions of Bloc MP Alain Therrien, whom Singh called a racist for blocking a motion Singh wanted to present Wednesday on systemic…

The contenders for the federal Conservative leadership traded fewer pointed barbs during the English-language debate in Toronto on Thursday, appealing for more party unity to defeat Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. After the presumed front-runners, Peter MacKay and Erin O’Toole, had several heated exchanges during a bumpy debate in French the night earlier, neither showed the…