Populism Isn't Going Up In Canada, Samara Report Suggests
Click:全国楼凤论坛 Click:Oily scalp treatment Populist movements are suddenly all the rage, at least that may be the perception based on the political parties sweeping to power across the world — in the U.S., Italy, Spain, the Philippines and many other countries. But contrary to popular belief, Canadians may not be trending towards populism, a new…
Liberals Reduce Deferral Period For Blood Donations From Sexually Active Gay, Bisexual Men
OTTAWA — Men who have had sex with men will be able to give blood after a deferral period of three months, down from a year, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Wednesday. The decision was made at the request of Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec, Petitpas Taylor said on Parliament Hill, adding it’s meant…
Advocate Fights Back Against Saskatoon Killing Pigeons Off Sid Buckwold Bridge
SASKATOON — Crews tasked with cleaning a Saskatchewan bridge are in for a dirty job. The City of Saskatoon says that over the last 50 years one of its bridges has accumulated nearly 350 tonnes of pigeon poop — which is roughly equal to 230 cars parked on the bridge. It says the feces adds…
Gerald Butts, Trudeau's Former Top Adviser, Joins Eurasia Group Consulting Firm
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former top adviser, Gerald Butts, is taking on a new role with a New York-based global consulting firm, helping it to build a new practice advising clients on risks related to climate change. Butts says helping the Eurasia Group establish a “geopolitics of climate” practice is one of what…
Changes To Asylum Laws Will Be 'Deeply Harmful' For Female Refugees: Activists To Trudeau
OTTAWA — A group of Canadian women’s organizations has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to withdraw controversial changes to asylum laws in his government’s omnibus budget bill because of the harm they would cause to women targeted by harsh U.S. immigration policies. Last year, the United States said it wouldn’t accept asylum claims based…
Plane Crashes Into Florida River, No Deaths Reported
A charter plane carrying 143 people from the U.S. military base in Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river off the end of a runway Friday night, and while some passengers were hospitalized, no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said. A Boeing 737 arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville from Naval…
Quebec Student's Song Inspires Premier Legault To Rebuild Flooded School
MONTREAL — A town in Quebec’s Beauce region will be getting a new elementary school after a student’s song about its sorry state drew the attention of Premier Francois Legault. Legault said Monday the 84-year-old l’Accueil school in Scott, Que., which was damaged by recent floods, will be enlarged and moved to a new location…
'Simpsons' Canada-Based Episode Pokes Fun At SNC-Lavalin Affair, Ottawa Senators, Health Care
Sunday night’s episode of “The Simpsons” showed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau getting upset over something U.S. President Donald Trump said about him, holding a yoga pose, and then crawling out of his office to evade a question about the SNC-Lavalin affair. That’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, but here we are. The episode,…
Canada Offers To Take Back Garbage From Philippines, Ending Long Dispute
OTTAWA – Canada’s garbage is coming home from the Philippines. A spokesman for Global Affairs Canada told The Canadian Press on Thursday Canada made a formal offer earlier this week to have more than six dozen containers of Canadian household trash returned to the Port of Vancouver. The containers arrived in a port near Manila…
Jason Kenney: Trudeau Government Putting National Unity At Risk With Bill C-69
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and new Alberta Premier Jason Kenney put on polite faces for the cameras at the start of their first official meeting in Ottawa Thursday, but the cordial handshake and civil tone of their opening remarks belied the tension that exists between them. Just hours before the two met, Kenney…