In the March “Economic Action Plan” of 2012, a segment was devoted to the penny, the one cent coin. Originally made of copper, by 1997 to save production costs it was almost all zinc with a copper coating, and by 2000 mostly steel with a copper coating. Finance Minister Flaherty holds the last penny struck which will be entrusted to the…...إقرأالمزيد

The chief of police of the western city of Edmonton has formally apologized for wrongs committed against the LGBTQ2+ community. Chief Dale McFee extended the apology to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and two-spirited community both in the public and within the police service itself. ‘Our actions…created fear’…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is attending an emergency meeting of the Lima Group in Peru today, as Venezuela is sinking back into political stalemate following a failed military coup attempt by the Western-backed opposition. The pre-dawn military uprising on Tuesday, urged on by opposition leader and self-declared interim…...إقرأالمزيد

The maritime province of Nova Scotia announced it has ceased all its high-school rugby programmes. The decision was apparently based on insurance costs and injury rates. There’s no doubt that rugby is a rough and tumble game like most other contact sports, but Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation said statistics showed rugby had far higher…...إقرأالمزيد

The Canadian government announced it will provide a grant of $2.5 million to the Canadian Red Cross to support flood recovery efforts in eastern Canada. This is in addition to one million dollars that will be given to the Red Cross by the province of Quebec which is one of four affected by flooding. The situation appears to have stabilized in the provinces…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada has 550 shelters for women and children fleeing violence and 75 per cent of them are not funded adequately to do life-saving work, according to a report by the umbrella group, Women’s Shelters Canada. It says that in Canada, a woman is killed every 2.5 days and over half are killed by a current or former intimate partner. Statistics show…...إقرأالمزيد

For at least a decade in Canada’s western Arctic, the muskoxen Inuit rely on for everything from food, to employment as hunting guides, have been getting sick with diseases, some of which until recently had never been recorded in these Arctic animals. These changes are impacting everything from the economy to the transmission of Inuit hunting…...إقرأالمزيد

Three Indigenous groups from British Columbia will get a greater say in talks between Ottawa and Washington to modernize a bilateral treaty that coordinates flood control and hydropower generation along the Columbia River, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Friday. Representatives of three Indigenous Nations whose traditional territory…...إقرأالمزيد

In another blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a key political ally and very close friend is temporarily stepping away from his duties for health reasons. Dominic LeBlanc, 51, will be treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer, for several weeks. A statement from his doctor says LeBlanc has already begun treatments, has had “a positive…...إقرأالمزيد

There are people across Canada who strive try to protect ecologically sensitive landscapes they own, and now, they may get help from a new program funded by the Canadian government. It has pledged a $100 million program that will result in the conservation of 200,000 hectares of land that are home to species at risk. In some cases private land will…...إقرأالمزيد