CANADA

A year-end look at some of the top Canadian stories By Noé Chartier, Joan Delaney, Rahul Vaidyanath and Omid Ghoreishi From the weeks-long protests against COVID-19 mandates that gridlocked the nation’s capital and border crossings,…

By Limin Zhou Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says that he doesn’t like the flags around the country that cursing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with profanity and he doesn’t like the…

By Peter Wilson An Ontario lawyer says he will be giving out COVID-19 vaccine exemption letters starting in the new year to applicants applying for jobs that still require COVID vaccination as a…

By Peter Wilson Canada’s top 20 percent of income-earning families pay over half of the country’s total taxes, and over 60 percent of all federal and provincial personal income taxes, according…

By Noé Chartier The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has announced a contract with a social media intelligence collection firm based in the U.K. to obtain data on vaccine hesitant individuals in order to…

By Peter Wilson Toronto police are warning of a scam involving fake money following the arrest of a man suspected of perpetrating the scam. It’s known as the “black money scam” or “wash wash…

By Marnie Cathcart Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique was “outraged” that one of the suspects in a police officer’s death is a repeat offender who had been released from prison and out…

By Noé Chartier The federal government suspended its vaccine requirement to work in the public service in June 2022 but is nonetheless facing legal action over the measure at home and…

Male suspect allegedly on bail for previous assault of police officer By Marnie Cathcart Police announced that two suspects have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Ontario Provincial Police…

By Omid Ghoreishi News Analysis Soon after repressive regimes seized power in countries like China and Iran, language began to appear across state communications that reflects those regimes’ ideology and propaganda. Some observers…