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Canada

  • Quebec inks tentative deals on working conditions with all ‘common front’ labour unions
    Posted in: Canada, News

    As negotiations continue through the holiday season, the Quebec government has struck tentative agreements on working conditions with a “common front” labour alliance of four major unions representing some 420,000 public sector workers. The latest deal was reached at about 1 a.m. Wednesday with a union representing around 1,000 professional workers at several school boards […]

  • N.B. premier defends handling of Policy 713 changes in year-end interview
    Posted in: Canada, News

    New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he wouldn’t change how he and his government handled controversial changes to school gender identity policy. “I’m not sure what else that I would have done differently,” he said in a year-end interview with Media “Really, we had a policy that hides information from parents? That’s problematic.” News broke […]

  • Montreal-area family says police slow to investigate alleged racial attack
    Posted in: Canada, News

    A Montreal-area mother is expressing rage and horror about an alleged racially motivated attack against her 18-year-old daughter and three other young women. Lyndia Barthold says the four women were sitting in a parked car in Terrebonne, north of Montreal, when a man started swinging an axe at a closed window and screaming racial slurs. […]

  • Canada ready to pay two Michaels settlement for China prison time: report
    Posted in: Canada, News

    Canada’s government is willing to sign off on multimillion-dollar settlement packages for Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig to compensate them for the near three years they were incarcerated in Chinese prisons, the Globe and Mail reported on Tuesday, citing government sources. Federal lawyers are in compensation talks with the two men, who were detained in 2018, and are […]

  • Statement for International Migrants Day
    Posted in: Canada, News

    Ottawa, December 18, 2023—The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development, issued the following statement: “Newcomers, including refugees, play a vital role in shaping Canada. They enrich our society and communities, and contribute to our long-term economic prosperity. […]

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