The Canadian economy posted its worst showing on record in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country shutting down businesses and putting people out of work.
Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product shrank 5.4 per cent in 2020, the steepest annual decline since comparable data was first recorded in 1961.
Peel Public Health has apologized after telling parents to keep their young children in separate rooms with no contact with the rest of the family during isolation.
“This report proposes an increase to the composition of the committee by the addition of two members who can bring expertise in an anti-racist feminist perspective,” writes the Anti-Racism Action Committee report.
Erin O’Toole is a good public speaker, and has relatively strong communication skills.
However, he is certainly not a charismatic and telegenic politician.
In this clip from a recent livestream, Ezra Levant reviewed footage from a Toronto anti-lockdown rally where our cameraman Mocha (@BezirganMocha on Twitter) caught some police radio chatter advising cops to arrest anyone with a megaphone or a sign.
From gun control to languages, the Liberals have been checking the boxes on unfulfilled promises and making new ones on the pandemic front.
In another example of the government trying to use this crisis to make long-term changes that nobody is asking for, the Trudeau Liberals are pushing for ‘vote-by-telephone’ in the next election.
The verdict in Toronto’s van attack trial will be broadcast on YouTube on Wednesday.
Alek Minassian has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 of second-degree murder.
He argues he should be found not criminally responsible due to his autism spectrum disorder.
Travellers say they’re frustrated by long wait times to book hotel quarantines and chaotic service during their stays.
Raymond Truesdale recorded a now-viral video of a crowd of hotel guests yelling at staff in a government-sanctioned hotel in Toronto on Friday. They said they hadn’t been fed for hours and weren’t getting clear answers from the front desk.
“It was a boondoggle. Pandemonium. You could see people really frustrated and I don’t blame them” he told CTV News in a video interview.
An anti-communist tweet from Health Canada’s official Twitter account sent alarm bells and panicked emails all the way up to the Minister’s office.
In September, a pro-Falun Gong message was retweeted by the ministry. The Falun Gong are a persecuted religious minority in China who have reportedly been subject to re-education, imprisonment, and organ harvesting.
A new educational resource is looking at the long history in British Columbia of racist policies and the resiliency of the many Indigenous, Black and racialized people who have been affected.
The open-source booklet Challenging Racist British Columbia: 150 Years and Counting was released today by co-publishers the University of Victoria (UVic) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The 80-page document is being made available as Black History Month wraps up and as B.C. approaches its 150th anniversary of joining Canada this July 20.
“In 1871, this province joined the Canadian federation and, ever since, communities of Indigenous, Black, and other racialized peoples have waged protracted struggles against the dispossession of Indigenous lands, institutionalized discrimination, and the politics of exclusion,” the report begins.
Canada is being described as a “vaccine pirate” after the latest announcement of COVID vaccine approvals showed we will be getting our doses from a facility funded to provide vaccines for the developing world.
It’s hard to believe it’s March again. But we’re in a better place now than we were last time this month rolled around. Along with public health measures that are keeping us safe, we’ve got vaccines being distributed across the country, with millions more on the way.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 1, 2021
I’m looking forward to reusing this post every March 1.
Mounties confirmed they are investigating several videos that show a confrontation between a man who refused to wear a mask and staff at the Canadian Tire in Burnaby, B.C.
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Audrey Roy Cloutier, spokeswoman for the director of prosecutions, confirmed Monday that the court last week declared Adam Riga not criminally responsible after he underwent a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he was fit to be arraigned.
