By 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…
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By Noé Chartier Challengers to Ottawa’s vaccine mandate for domestic travel filed a notice of appeal with the federal court on Nov. 18 in hopes of overturning a previous decision that…
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Emergencies Act Invoked Based on Threat of Serious Violence, Say Top Public Servants
by EditorTBy Noé Chartier The federal government’s top public servants defended the rationale to invoke the Emergencies Act as they testified on Nov. 18, telling the Public Order Emergency Commission that a threat of…
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Write-Off From Pandemic Loan Relief Program May Cost Canadian Taxpayers Billions
by EditorTBy Isaac Teo Canadian taxpayers may be on the hook for $2.4 billion due to a projected write-off of debts from a pandemic loan relief program, federal records show. The expected loss stems…
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Feds Allowed Chinese Forces to Attend ‘Military Sciences’ Conference in Canada: Report
by EditorTBy Peter Wilson Personnel from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) were reportedly given permission to attend an international “military sciences” conference in October 2021 hosted by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) at Canada’s largest military college…
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Indictment of 7 Chinese Nationals for ‘Forced Repatriation’ of US Resident to China Shows Similar Operations in Canada
by EditorTBy Andrew Chen A federal court in New York has charged seven Chinese nationals for harassing and coercing a U.S. resident to return to China as part of Beijing’s international extralegal…
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By Andrew Chen The RCMP has begun an investigation into reports of unauthorized Chinese police stations in Toronto. A September report from the human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders found that over 30 police stations are…