Canada

Canada · 21 d ago

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Jewish military members' claims rejected in $150-million racism settlement

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More than two dozen Jewish members of the Canadian Armed Forces were told their claims did not meet the settlement's racial identity criteria, according to reports.

Canada · 21 d ago

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Suspect in assault at a Toronto protest turns himself in

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Toronto police's hate crime unit alleges that Martin Salgatar, 20, of Mississauga, Ontario, attacked a man from behind without provocation while walking in an anti-Israel demonstration near Yonge and Grosvenor streets.

Canada · 21 d ago

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Parti Québécois MNAs sworn in, with no oath to the King

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The Parti Québécois won 59 of the National Assembly's 125 seats in the Oct 5 election, five short of the 64 needed for a majority.

Canada · 21 d ago

B.C. First Nations press the Major Projects Office over rushed consultations

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Pacific Link, a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia, was named a project of national interest on Oct 1, and chiefs say they had only 11 working days to review it.

Canada · 21 d ago

Quebec children placed with close relatives and friends take youth protection to court

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Children, their kinship foster families and the Fédération des familles d'accueil et des ressources intermédiaires du Québec filed an action in Quebec Superior Court on Thursday. They want sections of the law they call discriminatory struck down.

Canada · 21 d ago

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Ontario watchdog says police had no choice but to shoot in fatal Toronto raid

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Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a report released Oct 9 that the suspect fired several times at police, and that the officers who fired back were defending themselves. It found no basis for criminal charges against the officer who shot the suspect.

Canada · 21 d ago

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Author Steven Galloway tells his defamation trial his book sales collapsed after allegations

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The former chair of the University of British Columbia's creative-writing program is suing a former student, known as A.B. under a publication ban, and three other women who repeated her sexual-assault allegation.

Canada · 21 d ago

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Supreme Court sets a sentencing framework for Indigenous intimate partner violence cases

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In a 5-4 ruling on Oct 9, the court said judges must apply the principles for Indigenous offenders and for Indigenous women victims together, in a harmonious way.