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Was it a protest by staff or marketing for a change of programming? Listeners to Kiss Radio 104.9 FM had plenty of time to wonderEarly on Wednesday morning, someone at a pop and soft rock station in Vancouver, Canada, began playing the song Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine.Then they played it again. Continue reading...

Fiasco involves automated system that has led to 200,000 government workers being overpaid, underpaid or not paid at allA woman in Newfoundland has lost her house after the government of Canada stopped paying her while she was on contract with its own revenue agency.Joanne Nemec Osmond’s ordeal is the latest case in a debacle surrounding an automated payroll system which has led to 200,000...

Discovery in the Klondike ranks as the most complete mummified mammal found in the AmericasIt was a young miner, digging through the northern Canadian permafrost in the seemingly aptly named Eureka Creek, who sounded the alarm when his front-end loader struck something unexpected in the Klondike gold fields.What he had stumbled upon would later be described by the territory’s palaeontologist as “one of the...

Ban on manufacture and import of six popular types of items will begin in December 2022, and sales a year laterCanada laid out its final regulations on Monday spelling out how it intends to apply a ban on plastic bags, straws, takeout containers and other single-use plastics.“Only 8% of the plastic we throw away gets recycled,” said federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos in French,...

Health Canada confirms reviews into trials following complaint of ‘alleged investigator misconduct’All clinical trials into the psychoactive drug MDMA are being reviewed by Canadian regulators after complaints about abuse of study participants by a trailblazing American psychedelic research organization.The California-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps) has led the way in conducting trials into the medicinal qualities of the drug. In May 2021, it...

Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual assault at the schools was rampant and has apologizedCanadian police said they arrested a 92-year-old retired priest for a sexual assault more than 50 years ago at one of Canada’s residential schools for Indigenous children.Sgt Paul Manaigre of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Friday that police arrested retired Father Arthur Masse for the assault....

Retired Lt Gen Trevor Cadieu preparing to return home to face two charges relating to alleged incidents in 1994 when he was a cadetA former Canadian general who reportedly went to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders has been charged back home in Canada with sexual assault, after a months-long investigation.Retired Lt Gen Trevor Cadieu faces two counts of sexual assault that relate to alleged...

Black people are 2.2 times more likely to have a police interaction and 1.6 times more likely to have force used on them, police statistics showBlack, indigenous and other racialized communities have faced disproportionate use-of-force and strip searches by Toronto police, chief James Ramer said on Wednesday, as he apologized and promised to address systemic racism in the department.“As an organization we have not...

Hans Island ‘whisky war’ – described by some as a ‘pseudo-confrontation’ – ends after formal division agreedIt has been described by some as a “pseudo-confrontation”, and by others as a diplomatic afterthought. Now, however, the so-called “whisky war”, which was never really a conflict at all, has finally been resolved with the formal division of a tiny barren Arctic island between Canada and Denmark.Sitting...

Five-member crew was detained after they found a bag of cocaine on 5 April and spent nine days in jail in a ‘hellish situation’A five-person Canadian airline crew caught up in a drug-trafficking investigation is begging their government to repatriate them after two months trapped in the Dominican Republic.“It’s absolutely horrendous – terrible, terrible stuff we’re going through,” said captain Robert Di Venanzo, who...

Witnesses at Monday hearing describe devastation from 2018 attack in which Alek Minassian ploughed rented van into sidewalkA self-described “incel” who killed 11 people when he plowed a rented van into a busy Toronto sidewalk in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison.Alek Minassian – who was motivated by a hatred of women – was convicted in March of 10 counts of first-degree...

Trees and grass are emitting more pollen than usual, scientists say – and it’s likely to stay that way in the coming yearsFirst, he had the symptoms. Then he saw the yellow fog. A thin layer of gold-coloured dust coated the patio furniture, the patio, his children’s swing set – everything in the garden of Ubaka Ogbogu’s home in the Canadian city of Edmonton.“The...

‘Poison in every puff’ message proposed amid government concern photo warnings on tobacco packages have lost impactCanada is poised to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette.The move builds on Canada’s mandate to include graphic photo warnings on tobacco products’ packaging, a policy that started an international trend when it was introduced two decades...

Public inquiry hears of police delays and communication failures during attack in Nova Scotia in which 22 people died Two people died in the time it took Canadian police to get internal approval to tweet a warning to the public about the suspect in the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, a public inquiry was told on Wednesday.Lia Scanlan, former director of strategic communications for...

Beijing warns Australia of ‘serious consequences’ if it does not stop ‘provocations’ after incident Canberra called ‘very dangerous’Beijing has accused Australia and Canada of “spreading disinformation” over allegedly dangerous manoeuvres by Chinese military pilots in international airspace.China also warned Australia to stop “provocations” or face “serious consequences” after the Albanese government said a Chinese jet intercepted an RAAF plane in a dangerous manoeuvre in...

Canadian planes enforcing UN North Korea sanctions had to avoid colliding with Chinese jets in encounter in international airspaceJustin Trudeau has denounced Beijing’s “irresponsible and provocative” actions after a recent encounter in international airspace over Asia.The incident, in which Canadian aircraft deployed in Japan encountered, and in some cases had to avoid colliding with, Chinese jets, has again raised tensions between Beijing and Ottawa,...

While jury deliberated in Toronto, news broke that the Canadian rock musician had been charged with another sexual assaultThis story contains descriptions of sexual assaultThe Canadian rock musician Jacob Hoggard has been found guilty of violently raping a young woman, but acquitted of sexually assaulting a second – all while facing a new, third charge of sexual assault.After a month-long trial and six days...

The British Columbia program was abruptly shut down and nine officers are reportedly under investigation after the incident Policing experts in Canada have called for an overhaul of undercover tactics after reports that officers at a training session participated in “disgusting, appalling” behaviour, including penetrating a colleague using a vegetable, defecating on another and exposing genitalia.According to Global News and CTV, the BC Municipal...

Leadership ‘incapable of examining which aspects of its culture have been the most deficient,’ writes Louise Arbour in reportSome members of the Canadian military face greater harm from their comrades than from the enemy, according to a new report on sexual violence in the Canadian armed forces (CAF).Called the Arbour report after its author, the former supreme court justice Louise Arbour, the 404-page document...

Jury finds Anthony Bilodeau and his father guilty in the deaths of Maurice Cardinal and his nephew, Jacob Sansom, who were MétisA white man who shot and killed two Indigenous hunters on a country road in the Canadian province of Alberta has been found guilty of murder and manslaughter in a case that laid bare racial tensions in the region. The man’s father was...

Policy aims to stem record number of overdose deaths by easing a fear of arrest by those who need helpCanada’s government has announced that it will allow the province of British Columbia to try a three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs, hoping it will help stem a record number of overdose deaths by easing a fear of arrest by those...

Government’s to introduce Bill C-21, as Justin Trudeau says sport shooting and hunting the only grounds for ‘everyday’ gun ownershipCanada’s government is to legislate for a national freeze on handgun ownership that would prevent people buying and selling them anywhere in the country.“The day this legislation goes into effect it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns in Canada,”...

Officials in Nunavut say there are 31 cases of active tuberculosis in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500A tuberculosis outbreak in the Canadian Arctic has prompted frustration in a remote Inuit community and highlighted the persistence of an illness that has largely been wiped out in the rest of the country.The outbreak also lays bare the dismal living conditions and overcrowding in...

Arkansas-born showman – known as ‘The Hawk’ – cut his teeth on the South’s tough 50s circuit but settled in Canada where he nurtured local talentRonnie Hawkins, the Arkansas-born rock’n’roll legend who mentored the young Canadian and American musicians later known as the Band, has died.Hawkins, described in tributes as the most important rock’n’roller in Canadian history, died at the age of 87 after...