In an effort to attract more French-speaking students and future skilled immigrants to Canada, the federal government is extending a program designed to expedite study permit applications to international students from Morocco and Senegal. As of Sept. 9, students from Senegal and Morocco will be able to access the Student Direct Stream (SDS), an expedited…...إقرأالمزيد

LONDON, ON (August 22, 2019) – As a result of the continued investigation into the August 14, 2019, collision on Woodman Avenue that resulted in an explosion and fire, eight additional charges have been laid against a 23-year-old Kitchener woman. Daniella Alexandra Leis, 23, of Kitchener, is additionally charged with the following Criminal Code…...إقرأالمزيد

Young people bring such great hope, especially when they are driven to make this insane world a better place. Take Yvonne Stanley. She’s a photographer in Toronto. I have no idea how old she is. It matters not a whit. Stanley says she loves the Toronto Caribbean Carnival because “it’s all about the celebration of women of colour.”…...إقرأالمزيد

A British Columbia man is crediting a camping knife, a gift from his father, for helping him survive a terrifying attack by a grizzly bear earlier this week. Colin Dowler, 45, was cycling on his mountain bike around backcountry logging roads outside of Powell River, about 170 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, on Tuesday when he suddenly came upon…...إقرأالمزيد

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government has reached a new housing agreement with Nunavut to help address the housing crisis across Canada’s Arctic territory. Under the 10-year agreement the federal and territorial governments will provide nearly $316 million in targeted funding to protect, renew, and expand social and community…...إقرأالمزيد

Amazing video has been shared nearly 1,000 times on social media Jake Parsons and a few pals were out jigging for cod in Perry’s Cove, near Salmon Cove, on Sunday when a pod of killer whales arrived and performed a jig of their own. Luckily, Parsons’ quick-thinking friend Rick Chubey, visiting from Winnipeg, managed to get a video and post…...إقرأالمزيد

Groups fighting homelessness in Lanark County (Ontario) plan to house youth in tiny homes on private property CBC News, first published on July 24, 2019 Two-hundred square feet may sound small, but advocates for homeless youth are hoping it will be big enough to fix Lanark County’s affordable housing problem. Cornerstone Landing — a non-profit…...إقرأالمزيد

As the World Meteorological Organization was announcing that July was likely the hottest month in recorded history and new study published Friday found that last week’s record-breaking temperatures in Europe were made more intense by human-caused climate change, the so-called “travelling heat wave” has settled over Greenland,…...إقرأالمزيد

The federal government is marking the genocide of more than 500,000 Romani murdered and persecuted by the Nazis and their collaborators in Europe during the Second World War. Aug. 2 marks one of the most tragic mass murders committed against the Romani during the Second World War. On the night of Aug. 2 to 3, German guards at Auschwitz II-Birkenau…...إقرأالمزيد

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has awarded a federal grant to First Nations researchers at Canada’s University of Saskatchewan to establish an Indigenous-led centre devoted to addressing rising HIV rates among Inuit, First Nations and Métis. The $2.84-million will be allocated over five years for the project.   …...إقرأالمزيد