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OTTAWA — The lawyer for a Canadian woman who spent two years in Syrian prison camps says he's trying to help get her home from Iraq after Ottawa agreed to give her an emergency travel document. Lawyer Paul Champ says he is working with Global Affairs Canada to get authorization from Kurdish officials in northern Iraq for her departure and to identify an appropriate flight. In a letter Thursday to Champ, a Justice Canada official says the Immigration Department has authorized the issuance of a tr.
A Toronto community health centre that primarily serves Black patients dramatically improved its cancer screening rates after launching a targeted campaign several years ago.
Cancer screening rates tend to be lower in some diverse communities due to a lack of race-based data in Canada. OTTAWA — Internal government documents are providing the clearest picture yet of the impact that emergency aid is having on federal support to low-income seniors and families.
Thousands of benefit recipients have seen a decline in the value of payments because they received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit or its successor, the Canada Recovery Benefit, last year.
Documents show low-income families were expected to see the sharpest drops in support through the Canada Child Benefit, and feder. The Black Pete character, often played by adults wearing blackface makeup, has sparked a decade of demonstrations and counter-demonstrations in the Netherlands by protesters who consider him a racist caricature and supporters who insist he is a harmless children's character. Amid the long-running p. A group of Indigenous women gathered at Montreal's Cabot Square Friday to raise awareness about the number of Inuit women who have died during the past year and a half.
We need to have a voice in order to keep our voices strong as Inuit and all Indigenous women," said Emily Angnakuk, who has lived in Montreal for 13 years. The Inuk elder said she is not going to stop speaking about her fellow Inuk sisters who died during the pandemic, just as she speaks about mi. They're just adorable in all kinds of ways and even more so when it's a penguin. The last successful birth was two years ago.
In , three c. The U. Robinson was given two yellow cards in Friday night's win over Mexico, and McKennie received his second yellow card of qualifying after getting one in the opener at El Salvador on Sept. Both left camp before the U. A woman has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after a car struck a pole on Saturday, Toronto police say. Police said they received report of a single vehicle crash on The Queensway, west of the Humber River at p.
The car was upside down after it had struck a pole, ripping in half as a result, and one woman became trapped inside, police say. The gun has been controversial since its introduction into the Canadian marketplace.
Colt recently announced it will stop producing the AR for the civilian market, though other manufacturers will continue to make versions of the weapon available to the general public. The AR appeared in the Canadian market by the mid to late s. Some Canadians immediately began to express concern about the gun.
Read more: Calls for stronger handgun laws in Canada have deep roots. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police also raised concerns about such firearms, and in the federal government declared the AR a restricted weapon, meaning that a potential purchaser had to pass a higher threshold to acquire the gun. An advocate for firearm owners, Michael Martinoff, responded by declaring before a parliamentary committee that he would refuse to register his AR The complaints of the gun community led the government of former prime minister Joe Clark to reclassify the AR as a non-restricted firearm.
Some gun advocates claim the gun has never been used in Canadian criminal activity. In , Saskatoon police shot year-old hostage-taker Richard Landrie after a lengthy standoff. Landrie was dressed in battle fatigues and armed with an AR Australia introduced a buyback program in the s and New Zealand launched its own program after a mass shooting attack on two mosques in Christchurch in The Canadian legislation also includes provisions that could allow individual municipalities to ban handguns.
Under the proposed law, municipalities could pass local bylaws that restrict handgun storage and transportation. If an individual with a federal firearms license breaks those rules, they could face a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment and the possible revocation of their license, the government said.
John Tory said in a statement that the city looked forward to receiving details from the federal government on how a local-level ban would work and its impact on gun violence. Write to Kim Mackrael at kim. All Rights Reserved. Skip to Main Content Skip to Search.
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