By Peter Wilson Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today told reporters that the federal government sufficiently prepared for and successfully prevented any attempts of foreign interference in the 2019 federal election, during which 11…
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PR Firm Denies Allegation That Its Employee Was the One Carrying Nazi Flag During Freedom Convoy
by EditorTBy Noé Chartier Strategic communications firm Enterprise Canada is denying that one of its employees had carried a Nazi flag during the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, after the allegation was…
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Mendicino Says Protesters Wanted to Overthrow Government, Based on Repudiated ‘Manifesto’
by EditorTBy Noé Chartier The effects of last winter’s protests and blockades, tied to their intention to “overthrow” the government, led Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to judge it was necessary to invoke the Emergencies…
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College Affiliated With University of Waterloo Confirms Closure of Beijing’s Confucius Institute
by EditorTClosure is part of a growing trend from institutions in North America and other parts of the world cutting ties with the Beijing-led program By Isaac Teo A college affiliated with…
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CSIS Director Told Trudeau Emergencies Act Was Needed Despite Seeing No National Security Threat Under Its Mandate
by EditorTBy Noé Chartier The director of CSIS told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 21 that he advised the prime minister the Emergencies Act should be invoked, even though his agency had found that…
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By Mary Hong Four Republican U.S. senators have introduced a proposal that aims to provide greater scrutiny of visas for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members. It would ban the issuance of nonimmigrant visas…
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Ontario’s Lowest-Paid Education Workers to Get 4.2 Percent Salary Increase If New Deal Ratified
by EditorTBy Marnie Cathcart The tentative government deal offered to Ontario education support workers threatening a strike would provide the lowest-paid members a 4.2 percent yearly salary increase, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said Monday at a press…
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Tentative Deal With Ontario Education Workers Will Avert Strike, Keep Schools Open
by EditorTBy Marnie Cathcart At nearly the final hour of bargaining, before a scheduled strike of 55,000 education support workers would have shut down most Ontario schools tomorrow, the government said a tentative agreement…
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Toronto Transit to Drop Vaccine Mandate, No Back Pay for Terminated Staff
by EditorTBy Marnie Cathcart The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) tweeted on Nov. 17 that it plans to lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Nov. 27 and “invite those whose employment was terminated under the…
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Edmonton Doctor Sentenced to Four Years in Jail for $827K Billing Fraud
by EditorTBy Marnie Cathcart In what may be one of the largest cases of doctor billing fraud in Canada’s history, Yifei Shi, a 35-year old Edmonton family doctor, was sentenced to four…