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Canada 7th in foreign aid spending, but a fifth goes to refugees inside the country
OTTAWA - While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world's richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada's borders. Some 19 per cent of Canada's aid...
May 23, 2024
In the news today: How foreign aid flows, New citizenship bill to be tabled in Ottawa
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... A fifth of foreign aid goes to refugees in Canada While Canada is one of the to...
May 23, 2024
New bill would let Canadians to pass citizenship rights down to children born abroad
OTTAWA - A new government bill tabled in the House of Commons on Thursday would allow Canadians to pass citizenship rights down to their children born outside the country - a move that would add an un...
May 23, 2024
Plan to wake serial killer Robert Pickton from coma: Quebec police
QUBEC - A spokesman for Quebec's provincial police says British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton is in a medically induced coma after a prison attack and doctors planned to try to wake him soon. ...
May 23, 2024
Université du Québec à Montréal seeking injunction against pro-Palestinian encampment
MONTREAL - Universit du Qubec Montral has filed for an injunction against pro-Palestinian protesters who set up an encampment on its downtown campus a little over a week ago. UQAM is asking the Quebec...
May 23, 2024
After cemetery strike, grieving Montreal families still waiting to bury loved ones
MONTREAL - For more than a year, an urn holding the ashes of Bridget Heffernan's brother has remained in her Montreal-area home instead of being buried in the plot at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery wh...
May 23, 2024
RCMP adds ribbon skirt to uniform in effort to build bridges with Indigenous people
OTTAWA - The RCMP has added a traditional Indigenous ribbon skirt to its uniform. Commissioner Mike Duheme has announced on social media that officers can now wear the ribbon skirts when donning the r...
May 23, 2024
B.C. mayor hopes wildfire evacuees can return to Fort Nelson early next week
FORT NELSON, B.C. - The mayor of the regional municipality that includes Fort Nelson, B.C., that was evacuated due to a threatening wildfire says local officials are pushing for a Monday or Tuesday de...
May 23, 2024
Ottawa police charge 74-year-old woman after woman's hijab removed at Israel protest
OTTAWA - The Ottawa police hate-crime unit has charged an unnamed older woman with assault, harassment by threatening conduct and mischief after a woman's hijab was pulled off at a recent protest. Pro...
May 23, 2024
Removing religion as hate speech defence an idea worth exploring: antisemitism envoy
OTTAWA - Canada's special envoy for combating antisemitism is "very interested" in exploring the idea of removing religion as a possible defence against hate speech charges, she said Thursday, raising...
May 23, 2024
