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Indigenous Manufacturing and Contracting Network (IMCN) has been working to connect Indigenous-owned businesses in the manufacturing and contracting sector to non-Indigenous industries. “I’ve always heard growing up and throughout my career ‘we have to hire Indigenous,’” said IMCN executive director, Nick Crighton. “There is an interest from industry and Government …

Discussions about a public inquiry on foreign interference have stretched well into the summer, as House leaders put aside political jabs that dominated Parliament for much of the year in exchange for “collaborative” chats from hotel rooms and the cottage. Alex Marland, a professor in Acadia University’s politics department, said …

Residents living in one of a few Winnipeg neighbourhoods testing out lower speed limits say they’re already noticing an improvement in their freedom of movement in the area. Morgan Willacy, a resident in the Bourkevale area of the city, said walkability in the neighbourhood is already better. “It just makes …

A daycare operator in Regina says the current flu season has been even worse than when “we were in full COVID.”  “People were isolating at that time and whatnot, but now everyone is back,” said Megan Schmidt, director of First Years Learning Center. “It just seems that everybody is catching …

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has tested positive for COVID-19 just two weeks ahead of the provincial election.  Horwath said she tested positive on a rapid test Thursday morning. “Like many others in this pandemic, this morning I tested positive for COVID-19,” Horwath said in a tweet. “We’re doing our best to …

New Delhi: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the worlds ‘oldest reigning monarch, tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday and is suffering moderate symptoms, according to Buckingham Palace. She intends to resume modest responsibilities this week, news agency Reuters reported. The 95-year-old queen’s health has been in the limelight since she spent a …

New Delhi:  At least 29 students of a residential school in West Bengal’s Nadia district have tested positive for Covid-19. According to sources, the affected students are from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kalyani, and belong to Class 9 and Class 10. Thirteen boys and 16 girls tested Covid positive.  School officials …

New Delhi: Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to the chief secretaries and administrators of all states and Union Territories stating the 27 districts in 10 states and Union Territories reporting high Covid positive rates in the past two weeks need to be monitored very closely. “In this context, …

Chennai: Days after Kerala’s Onam festival, the state once again reported a new high on Wednesday with 31,445 people testing positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of active cases to 1,70,292.  A release from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the state tested 1,65,273 samples on Tuesday and the …

<p><strong>Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka):</strong> In a tragic and shocking incident a 72-year-old retired assistant tehsildar reportedly killed himself by shooting himself in the head on Monday after testing positive for Covid, the police said.<br /><br />The police said that the poignant point of his suicide note is that he was deeply troubled …