Asian Tribune Your Multilingual Newspaper covering World and local news News
One of the first things Deny Soto was told after her son was diagnosed with autism was “get on the list.” The Toronto mom didn’t really know what she was signing up for in 2022, but she listened. Now, four years later, her nine-year-old son Nico Tsirigotis is still on …
Read More »Grief grows as bodies of kidnapped workers of Canadian mining company identified in Mexico
Jaime Castañeda said he identified the body of his 43-year-old geologist brother on Sunday by viewing photographs presented to him by officials at the federal attorney general’s local headquarters in the coastal Mexican city of Mazatlán, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa. José Manuel Castañeda Hernández was working for Vancouver-based …
Read More »Minneapolis, Portland shootings spur protests over ICE crackdowns as outcry grows
Another round of protests were planned for Friday in Minneapolis over the killing of a local woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major city, a day after federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Ore. …
Read More »Why Canada’s food inspection agency won’t do interviews as avian flu outbreak in Ontario grows
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. As the number of birds culled in an avian flu outbreak on turkey farms near Strathroy, Ont., approaches 100,000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it …
Read More »PWHL’s 3rd season features growth and Olympics as league grows to 8 teams
The puck drops on the PWHL’s third season on Friday, officially beginning the league’s eight-team era. The Vancouver Goldeneyes and Seattle Torrent were built from scratch through an expansion draft process that pulled stars from the existing six teams. But will the riches gleaned through generous expansion rules, designed to …
Read More »Alice Lake Park under evacuation order as Squamish wildfire grows – BC
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Visitors are being evacuated from Alice Lake Provincial Park as an out-of-control wildfire in Squamish continues to burn. B.C. Parks issued an advisory online Wednesday evening, after the District of Squamish said the park was closed earlier that afternoon. “In the interest …
Read More »Amid 51st state taunts, King’s popularity in Canada grows
King Charles is enjoying a popularity boost and there is considerably more support for maintaining Canada’s ties to the Crown now than when he assumed the throne, according to public opinion polls released this week around his two-day visit to deliver a historic throne speech. After the long-reigning and hugely popular Queen …
Read More »‘Downtown has not kept up at all’: Pressure on Toronto parks grows as population climbs – Toronto
For a long time, the parks, parkettes and ravines scattered around Toronto were regarded as “nice to have” and as “frills,” advocate Dave Harvey says, but now he believes people have come to see them as vital infrastructure akin to schools, roads and hospitals. Harvey, the co-executive director of Park …
Read More »Sask. man grows produce due to worries about worsening food quality, inflation
Dean Sopher says he’s pessimistic about the world’s future. It’s why he bought land near Saskatoon and built his own homestead, growing crops and raising livestock to meet his family’s needs. 1:52 How one Sask. farmer grows tropical fruits in the middle of winter But Sopher isn’t gardening typical Prairie …
Read More »N.S. affordability crisis deepens as gap between living wage, minimum wage grows: report – Halifax
A new report indicates Nova Scotia’s minimum wage is getting increasingly more difficult for people to live on, as the rising cost of basic necessities continues to outpace pay increases. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual living wage report calculates what two adults working full-time would have to earn …
Read More »