A coalition of groups devoted to eliminating gender-based violence across Canada is urging Ottawa and Nova Scotia to refrain from using a restorative justice approach for a promised inquiry into the mass killing that claimed 22 lives in the Maritime province.
Migrant workers and other non-permanent residents — many of whom have been working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic — took to the streets in cities across Canada on Saturday, July 4, 2020, calling on Ottawa to grant them greater rights and protections.
Alberta is cutting business taxes, pumping billions into infrastructure and making a full court press to lure jobs from Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The family of a 62-year-old man who died after being shot by police west of Toronto over the weekend called for a public inquiry into the death, citing a lack of faith in the province's police watchdog to conduct a fair investigation.
Canada's death toll from COVID-19 passed the 5,000-mark on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the pandemic had exposed serious cracks in Canada's hard hit long-term care that governments will have to fix.
Young Canadians in Toronto and Ottawa and even expat students at Oxford University are uniting to provide help where it's needed, joining rock stars and restaurateurs in the effort.
As Canadians said farewell to the COVID-19-stricken Coral Princess cruise ship on Monday, April 6, 2020, for their long journey home, other recently repatriated high-seas travellers coped with the emotional exhaustion of their new normal on dry land.
Canada's most populous city has imposed a mandatory home quarantine on residents infected with COVID-19, as officials move to "aggressively halt" the spread of the virus.
For one traveller returning to Toronto from Vietnam, the way officials handled arrivals to Canada was startling when compared to strict COVID-19 guidelines in the southeast Asian country.