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Reçu aujourd’hui — 17 septembre 2025Canada
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  • Former swim instructor in Nova Scotia faces dozens of sexual-abuse charges
    The Nova Scotia RCMP have laid dozens of sexual-abuse charges against a former swim instructor who worked at a provincially run youth detention centre for nearly three decades.Donald Williams, 75, was arrested at his home last week in Dartmouth and faces 66 charges for sexual assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm, sexual exploitation, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and assault.
     

Former swim instructor in Nova Scotia faces dozens of sexual-abuse charges

17 septembre 2025 à 11:25
Staff Sergeant Rob McCamon, acting officer in charge of major crime and behavioural sciences, alleged the swim instructor sexually assaulted over 300 victims.

The Nova Scotia RCMP have laid dozens of sexual-abuse charges against a former swim instructor who worked at a provincially run youth detention centre for nearly three decades.

Donald Williams, 75, was arrested at his home last week in Dartmouth and faces 66 charges for sexual assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm, sexual exploitation, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and assault.

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  • Palestinian visa applications for Canadian asylum blocked without explanation, lawyer says
    When immigration lawyer Hana Marku opened her email weeks ago to a photo of an emaciated infant in the Gaza Strip, she said she felt helpless. The child is among about 50 Palestinians the Toronto-based lawyer is representing. She said each one was blocked without explanation from submitting applications under the temporary visa program the Canadian government created to help them flee the Israel-Hamas war.
     

Palestinian visa applications for Canadian asylum blocked without explanation, lawyer says

17 septembre 2025 à 07:40
‏Palestinians displaced by the Israeli military offensive take shelter in a tent camp in Gaza City, on Tuesday.

When immigration lawyer Hana Marku opened her email weeks ago to a photo of an emaciated infant in the Gaza Strip, she said she felt helpless.

The child is among about 50 Palestinians the Toronto-based lawyer is representing. She said each one was blocked without explanation from submitting applications under the temporary visa program the Canadian government created to help them flee the Israel-Hamas war.

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  • Federal union expands campaign denouncing staffing cuts at Canada Revenue Agency
    The federal union representing workers at the Canada Revenue Agency has started the second phase of its online campaign denouncing staffing cuts.The “Canada on Hold” campaign was launched last month with a focus on CRA call centres but has now been expanded to draw attention to staffing cuts across the agency.Marc Brière, national president of the Union of Taxation Employees, says the CRA has cut almost 10,000 jobs since May 2024 and the campaign looks to highlight the impact of cuts on the deli
     

Federal union expands campaign denouncing staffing cuts at Canada Revenue Agency

17 septembre 2025 à 07:29

The federal union representing workers at the Canada Revenue Agency has started the second phase of its online campaign denouncing staffing cuts.

The “Canada on Hold” campaign was launched last month with a focus on CRA call centres but has now been expanded to draw attention to staffing cuts across the agency.

Marc Brière, national president of the Union of Taxation Employees, says the CRA has cut almost 10,000 jobs since May 2024 and the campaign looks to highlight the impact of cuts on the delivery of services to taxpayers and businesses.

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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) national headquarters in Ottawa on June 28, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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  • Morning Update: Israel’s ground invasion pushes into Gaza City
    Good morning. Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City has begun, with missiles flattening neighbourhoods and families fleeing on foot – more on that below, along with the coming federal budget and Robert Redford’s cinematic legacy. But first:Today’s headlinesChrystia Freeland will leave her cabinet post to serve as Canada’s special representative for UkraineThe suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk is charged and prosecutors will seek the death penaltyWashington was hoping for a ‘bigger’ deal wi
     

Morning Update: Israel’s ground invasion pushes into Gaza City

17 septembre 2025 à 06:53

Good morning. Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City has begun, with missiles flattening neighbourhoods and families fleeing on foot – more on that below, along with the coming federal budget and Robert Redford’s cinematic legacy. But first:

Today’s headlines

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Displaced Palestinians in Gaza City move south as Israel launches its ground invasion.

Some cities declare states of emergency over public disorder triggered by fentanyl crisis

17 septembre 2025 à 06:00
Barrie, Ont., declared a state of emergency last week to address encampments, lawlessness and disorder.

The small B.C. town of Smithers is the latest Canadian community to table extraordinary measures to deal with the chaos and disorder triggered by the fentanyl crisis.

Last week, the northern mountain town of 5,400 announced that it will be hiring a team of private security guards to patrol a homeless encampment and the wider downtown from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. weekdays and 24 hours on weekends and holidays.

Reçu hier — 16 septembre 2025Canada
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  • Rushed crash safety measures creating new risks, Ontario daycare operators say
    Ontario’s Minister of Education has ordered child-care operators to immediately block parking spaces that could endanger children, a directive prompted by a Richmond Hill crash that killed a toddler and described by operators as a rushed response that has created new risks.One-and-a-half-year-old Liam Riazati died when a vehicle crashed through the front window of the First Roots Early Education Academy last Wednesday. Six other children were injured – two critically – along with three adults.
     

Rushed crash safety measures creating new risks, Ontario daycare operators say

16 septembre 2025 à 21:47
Police and fire crews work to remove a vehicle from First Roots Early Education Academy after it was driven through the daycare's window in Richmond Hill, Ont., on Sept. 10.

Ontario’s Minister of Education has ordered child-care operators to immediately block parking spaces that could endanger children, a directive prompted by a Richmond Hill crash that killed a toddler and described by operators as a rushed response that has created new risks.

One-and-a-half-year-old Liam Riazati died when a vehicle crashed through the front window of the First Roots Early Education Academy last Wednesday. Six other children were injured – two critically – along with three adults.

Pilot narrowly avoids soccer fields, pickleball courts to safely land after plane loses power

16 septembre 2025 à 21:18
A plane crashed near the sports field at Monarch Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto on Tuesday.

David Sydney-Cariglia saw the struggling plane before he heard it.

He’d been focusing on his son playing soccer at St. Patrick Catholic Secondary School in Toronto’s east end. It was a cloudless Monday night in September. As dusk settled in and the floodlights hummed, a strange shape whispered over the field.

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  • Canadian resident accused of smuggling Indian family who froze to death near U.S. border arrested
    A Canadian resident has been arrested after his alleged involvement in the high-profile smuggling of a young Indian family of four who froze to death along the U.S. border in Manitoba in early 2022. Fenil Patel, 37, who also goes by the name Fenilkumar Kantilal Patel, was apprehended on Sept. 5, based on an extradition request from the U.S., said Kwame Bonsu, a spokesperson for the Department of Justice Canada. The official declined to provide further details, including about any pending charges
     

Canadian resident accused of smuggling Indian family who froze to death near U.S. border arrested

16 septembre 2025 à 20:48
The bodies of the Patel family – Jagdish, 39, Vaishali, 37, Vihangi, 11, and Dharmik, 3 – were found with signs of severe hypothermia just a short distance away from the Manitoba-Minnesota border in January, 2022.

A Canadian resident has been arrested after his alleged involvement in the high-profile smuggling of a young Indian family of four who froze to death along the U.S. border in Manitoba in early 2022.

Fenil Patel, 37, who also goes by the name Fenilkumar Kantilal Patel, was apprehended on Sept. 5, based on an extradition request from the U.S., said Kwame Bonsu, a spokesperson for the Department of Justice Canada. The official declined to provide further details, including about any pending charges, describing the matter on Tuesday as part of “confidential state-to-state communications.”

Ione Christensen, first female Whitehorse mayor and former senator, dies at 91

16 septembre 2025 à 20:05
Ione Christensen waits outside the Senate Chambers to be sworn in as senator in Ottawa, 1999.

A powerhouse politician who broke glass ceilings in Canada, Ione Christensen is being remember both for the trails she blazed and the international acclaim she earned for the century-old sourdough starter she protected in the back of her refrigerator.

A former senator and the first woman to be mayor of Whitehorse, Christensen died Monday at the age of 91.

Man faces extradition for human smuggling in case of family who froze to death at border

16 septembre 2025 à 19:48
The Patel family was dropped off near the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba.

Another man has been arrested in connection with a human smuggling operation that saw a migrant family freeze to death on the Canada-U.S. border near Emerson, Man.

Fenil Patel was arrested Sept. 5 on an extradition request from the United States, the Justice Department in Ottawa said Tuesday. The 37-year-old faces a hearing this week in Ontario Superior Court.

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  • B.C.’s record-setting deficit ‘understated,’ Auditor-General says
    British Columbia’s independent Auditor-General says the province’s record-setting deficit forecast for this year is understated, because Finance Ministry officials were slow to account for a multibillion-dollar settlement that the provinces reached in March with big tobacco companies over health damages.This week, B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey tabled a fiscal update that shows the provincial deficit in the current fiscal year is forecast to hit $11.6-billion.
     

B.C.’s record-setting deficit ‘understated,’ Auditor-General says

16 septembre 2025 à 19:29
B.C. Premier David Eby and Finance Minister Brenda Bailey in Burnaby, B.C., on July 7. Mr. Eby says the dispute between his Finance Ministry and the Auditor-General is just a technical disagreement about accounting tactics.

British Columbia’s independent Auditor-General says the province’s record-setting deficit forecast for this year is understated, because Finance Ministry officials were slow to account for a multibillion-dollar settlement that the provinces reached in March with big tobacco companies over health damages.

This week, B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey tabled a fiscal update that shows the provincial deficit in the current fiscal year is forecast to hit $11.6-billion.

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  • Union leaders to meet with Amazon workers at Delta, B.C., facility ahead of bargaining
    The regional director of a union representing workers at the Amazon AMZN-Q facility in Delta, B.C., says leaders are scheduled to meet its members for the first time on the company’s property.Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarrigle says six, hour-long meetings will be held over three days this week to allow the union to inform workers about next steps in bargaining for their first collective agreement.
     

Union leaders to meet with Amazon workers at Delta, B.C., facility ahead of bargaining

16 septembre 2025 à 17:54
Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarrigle says six, hour-long meetings will be held over three days at the Delta, B.C. facility this week.

The regional director of a union representing workers at the Amazon AMZN-Q facility in Delta, B.C., says leaders are scheduled to meet its members for the first time on the company’s property.

Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarrigle says six, hour-long meetings will be held over three days this week to allow the union to inform workers about next steps in bargaining for their first collective agreement.

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  • Doug Ford says he expects Carney to back his Highway 401 tunnel proposal
    Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he believes Prime Minister Mark Carney will support his plan to build a tunnel under Highway 401 through Toronto and will include it among the major projects the federal government intends to fast-track.Mr. Ford has spoken out about his plan to build a new driver and transit tunnel expressway under Highway 401 and included it on the list provided to Ottawa of five projects the province believes are in the national interest to build.
     

Doug Ford says he expects Carney to back his Highway 401 tunnel proposal

16 septembre 2025 à 17:21
Ontario Premier Doug Ford believes Mark Carney will include the Highway 401 tunnel among the major projects the federal government intends to fast-track.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he believes Prime Minister Mark Carney will support his plan to build a tunnel under Highway 401 through Toronto and will include it among the major projects the federal government intends to fast-track.

Mr. Ford has spoken out about his plan to build a new driver and transit tunnel expressway under Highway 401 and included it on the list provided to Ottawa of five projects the province believes are in the national interest to build.

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  • U.S. to begin public consultations on USMCA trade pact
    The United States is officially starting the process of reviewing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as President Donald Trump continues to shake up continental trade with his tariff agenda.The U.S. Trade Representative is beginning 45 days of public consultations ahead of the mandated review of the trade agreement, better known as USMCA, next year.
     

U.S. to begin public consultations on USMCA trade pact

16 septembre 2025 à 16:57
The U.S. Trade Representative is beginning 45 days of public consultations ahead of the mandated review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The United States is officially starting the process of reviewing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as President Donald Trump continues to shake up continental trade with his tariff agenda.

The U.S. Trade Representative is beginning 45 days of public consultations ahead of the mandated review of the trade agreement, better known as USMCA, next year.

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  • B.C. government workers escalate job action, target mining sector
    British Columbia’s public service workers are escalating job action aimed at slowing work in the mining sector just as the province moves to fast-track several projects. The BC General Employees’ Union and Professionals Employees Association say staff in mineral and mines offices in Vancouver and Cranbrook will join picket lines.
     

B.C. government workers escalate job action, target mining sector

16 septembre 2025 à 15:49
The union is into its third week of strike action.

British Columbia’s public service workers are escalating job action aimed at slowing work in the mining sector just as the province moves to fast-track several projects.

The BC General Employees’ Union and Professionals Employees Association say staff in mineral and mines offices in Vancouver and Cranbrook will join picket lines.

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