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Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are in Montreal this week for a joint operation. Details are slim, but media reports suggest the forces are working together on an investigation regarding stolen cars. An OPP command post was parked Wednesday at a Montreal police east operations centre in St-Léonard. …
Read More »CRA says 20 employees fired for claiming COVID-19 benefits while working – National
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says 20 employees have been terminated after an internal review found they claimed COVID-19 benefits while still working at the tax authority. The CRA said in a late Friday statement that more workers could be fired as it investigates about 600 employees who may have …
Read More »Ontario coroners looking to unionize over working conditions and upcoming reforms
Burned out and fed up with working conditions they say are unfair, Ontario’s coroners are pushing to be allowed to unionize – despite their first raise in more than a decade and a law preventing them from doing so. The Ontario Coroners Association says coroners are frustrated with a new …
Read More »Canada’s health system not working, Trudeau says ahead of summit with premiers – National
Ahead of a high-stakes health summit on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the country’s health-care system is not working for Canadians and that his negotiations with premiers will focus on targeted investments aimed at improving results. All 13 of Canada’s premiers are in Ottawa for a first ministers meeting …
Read More »Iran spying: Canadian firm’s axed 2019 deal raises questions about working with regime – National
A small Canadian telecom service firm is taking issue with a tech watchdog’s report that it discussed working with an alleged front company to help Iranian officials spy on civilians. Citizen Lab, the Toronto-based digital and human rights organization, alleged in a Monday report that Port Coquitlam, B.C.-based PortaOne was …
Read More »Police working to identify motive in ‘horrendous’ Vaughan condo mass shooting
Police north of Toronto are working to determine the motive in what they’ve called a “horrendous” shooting at a condo that left five people, plus the suspected gunman, dead. News Source link
Read More »This long-term care home radically changed the way it operates. Residents say it’s working
Like so many people contemplating long-term care, Louis Capozzi said he was nervous about what he would find when he started looking at homes. “I heard so many awful things about, you know, people getting not well taken care of, laying in bed, needing to be changed and people hitting them …
Read More »N.L.’s premier asked doctors to contact him directly about working in the province. They had a lot to say
Their names are redacted for privacy reasons. But their experiences trying to practise medicine in Newfoundland and Labrador are not. There’s the St. John’s-born and -raised doctor, trained at Memorial University’s medical school before moving away, who outlined a list of hurdles to coming back — including lower pay, child-care concerns and a …
Read More »Emergencies Act inquiry to hear how protesters affected those living and working in Ottawa
The public inquiry examining the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act will hear later this morning how the protesters who took over Ottawa streets last winter affected those who live and work in the capital. Ottawa-based lawyer Victoria De La Ronde and Zexi Li — an Ottawa resident who helped secure …
Read More »Ottawa working on program to regularize status of 500,000 immigrants
The federal government is aiming to create a program that will provide a path to permanent residency for up to 500,000 immigrants who are working in Canada but do not have official standing. The program would have unprecedented scope and apply to people whose visa or work permits had expired, and to …
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