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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 29, 2024 6:11 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto entrepreneur Mohammad Al Zaibak is the latest addition to Canada’s Senate. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office announced the appointment today, describing Al Zaibak as a community leader who …
Read More »West Island food bank holds drive to fill empty shelves, prepare for holiday season – Montreal
Descrease article font size Increase article font size One home at a time, dozens of volunteers and staff from the West Island Mission went door to door in Pointe-Claire on Sunday morning. They were collecting food from people’s porches to bring back to the food bank’s pantry. Usually, the West …
Read More »As cost of living soars, school food programs struggle to fill growing need
Canadian school food program operators are seeing the highest demand ever as children prepare to go back to school. They say it points to the urgent need for a national school food policy. The Breakfast Club of Canada and The Coalition for Healthy School Food say the growing demand for …
Read More »John Tory ramps up appeal for fiscal help to fill Toronto’s $815M budget gap
Toronto Mayor John Tory is ramping up his appeal for financial help from the province and federal government, stressing that the city needs them to step up and fill an $815-million budget deficit created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to both Premier Doug Ford and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland …
Read More »Montreal couple forced into 14-day quarantine for failing to fill out ArriveCAN entry app
Ron Daymond and Evelyn Herskovitz were stunned when they were ordered to quarantine for 14 days after returning to the Canadian land border on May 22 following a day-trip to Plattsburgh, N.Y. The fully vaccinated couple said a border officer told them they must quarantine because they didn’t fill out the ArriveCAN …
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