Category: World

Ottawa’s New Round of Sanctions on Russians Includes Celebrities, Wagner Group Heads

Canada is sanctioning more Russians whom Ottawa accuses of supporting Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and mercenary violence in Africa. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has announced new sanctions against 38 individuals and 25 entities. The list has a focus on the paramilitary Wagner Group, which has sent combatants to Ukraine and across Africa. The sanctions…


Toronto Council Passes Chow Motion to Declare Intimate Partner Violence an Epidemic

Toronto city council has declared gender-based violence and intimate partner violence an epidemic in the city. The declaration was part of a motion from newly-minted mayor Olivia Chow and calls on the provincial and federal governments to make the same move, which Ontario recently declined to do. It also urges the other levels of government…


ANALYSIS: How to Improve Housing Affordability by Motivating Developers

Alleviating Canada’s housing affordability crisis revolves around increasing the supply of homes. But with Ontario’s environment of rising interest rates, labour shortages, high input costs, and even inter-provincial migration out of the bigger cities, analysts are suggesting solutions range from incentives for developers and builders to re-thinking land-use policies. Ontario has a goal of building…


‘I can change my story’: Addiction Recovery Journey Boosted by Helping Others

Libby Szarka looked around at the people who had become her “new family.” They were a poor comparison to the family she had left behind—three daughters, the youngest only 8 when Ms. Szarka started living on the streets of Calgary, dealing and smoking crack. “They wouldn’t think twice to stab you up for a hoot…


Gan Jing World Launches Competition in Spirit of Good Times and Togetherness Over Food

Food and shared mealtimes have the power to bring families and friends together. Social media platform “Gan Jing World” has launched a competition celebrating the power of food and fun called #MealtimeTogether. The competition started on July 10 and runs through Aug. 31. Participants are encouraged to share their own memories of good times and togetherness…


BC Army Reservists Provide Tough Challenge for Upcoming Episode of ‘Amazing Race Canada’

A group of soldiers from the army reserve unit in Victoria, B.C., played a prominent role in an upcoming episode of “The Amazing Race Canada,” set to air on July 25. Episode four of season nine of the popular reality TV show was filmed with the participation of the Canadian Scottish Regiment, an infantry unit…


COVID-19 Disruptions to Healthcare Access Linked to 80 Higher Risk of Hospitalisation, Study Finds

Patients whose access to health care was disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic are 80 percent more likely to be hospitalised, a study found. The study, published in medical journal BMJ by researchers led by University of Liverpool lecturer Mark Green, said more than a third of people (35 percent) in England were estimated to have experienced…


Russia Strikes Ukraine Ports, Threatens Ships, Jolting World Grain Markets

MYKOLAIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine—Russia jolted world grain markets with an escalation in the Black Sea, mounting a third straight night of air strikes on Ukrainian ports and issuing a threat against Ukraine-bound vessels to which Kyiv responded in kind. At least 27 people were reported hurt in the air strikes on the ports, which set buildings…


Climate Engineering to Fight Global Warming? What Could Go Wrong!

Commentary Two years ago, a documentary, “The Dimming: Exposing The Global Climate Engineering Cover-Up,” was released by Dane Wigington of Geoengineering Watch. The documentary claimed that climate engineering had been going on for decades, and there had been a massive cover-up. In fact, Yahoo Finance reported in 2019 that “Bill Gates backs plan to tackle…


Meet the Young Canadians Spending Summer on the Frontlines of Wildfire Fight

When Reese Lange was in kindergarten, she dreamed of joining the police. But it was in high school that she realized her true calling. The 21-year-old is now part of an army of young men and women, many of them college students, who are spending their summer battling what could be one of Canada’s worst…