The issue of separation was back on the table when the Scots voted in an election on Thursday. CBC’s Margaret Evans explains how independence came back to life just seven years after Scotland voted to stay in the UK
Canada Revenue Agency officials are “overwhelmed” by “tax giants” when it comes to cracking down on extraterritorial tax cheats, union leader representing CRA auditors said Thursday to deputies. Debi Daviau, President of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), said her members are passionate about their work, but they need a better structure and the right tools […]
Police targeting drug traffickers raided a slum in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and at least one policeman and two dozen others died after being shot, authorities said. The Civil Police press office confirmed the deaths of the cop and 24 suspected “criminals” in a message to the Associated Press. A police helicopter flew over the Jacarezinho slums as heavily […]
A Hamilton police officer has been charged with assault after a video posted online appeared to show him pouncing on a woman. On February 11 at around 4:30 p.m. ET, two officers responded to a dispute between a landlord and a tenant near King Street East and Sherman Avenue, police said. Surveillance footage appears to show what happened next. In […]
Kirsten Neuschafer’s plan to go around the world didn’t include rearing up this winter in Prince Edward Island. But the island, its people, and their boat building skills have turned out to be just what this sailor needs. Neuschafer has his sights set on next year’s Golden Globe Race around the world, and his sailboat is now in Prince Edward […]
The last: Campaigners cheered, pharmaceutical companies complained, and government leaders assessed next steps after the Biden administration’s successful decision to support patent easing and other protections on COVID-19 vaccines which, hope very much, will help poorer countries to get more doses and hasten the end of the pandemic. The decision to support the lifting of intellectual property protection on vaccines […]
Three years ago, a man who signed a contract to buy Mike Armstrong’s rustic cabins on Errock Lake in British Columbia suddenly disappeared from the map. The closing date came and went, but the buyer stopped responding to messages from their real estate agent. Failure to comply with the buy and sell agreement meant that the buyer lost a total […]
The advent of COVID-19 vaccines has given hope that there will soon be a return to something closer to what we remember as “normal”. But with it came a whole new set of experiences and dilemmas. What kinds of questions are it okay to ask people about the vaccine? Is it fair to ask someone how they got the vaccine […]
More Canadians ended up in hospital after using substances like opioids, alcohol and stimulants during the pandemic than in the past. In the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to September 2020), up to 81,000 Canadians had to be hospitalized for harmful substance use. This is an increase of around 4,000 from the previous year over the same […]
Logging operations have come to a halt in part of southern Vancouver Island after an altercation erupted Tuesday between forestry workers and blockers, a flashpoint in a months-long dispute over a basin unmarked slope in the region. Video of the incident, which took place near the Walbran Valley, northeast of Port Renfrew, B.C., was shared by activist group Rainforest Flying […]
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