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Quebec to scale back free COVID-19 shots this fall after Alberta limits eligibility

17 septembre 2025 à 18:24
It will cost between $150 and $180 to receive a shot if an individual is not eligible for free COVID-19 vaccination, according to AQPP.

Quebec has become the second Canadian province after Alberta that will no longer provide free vaccination against COVID-19 for all its population.

Instead, only certain categories of people will still receive the shot at no cost: seniors, health care workers, residents of remote regions and medically vulnerable patients.

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • Toronto police arrested accused of smuggling Indian family to U.S. out of fear he would flee Canada
    A Minnesota court requested the arrest of a Canadian resident this month so he can stand trial in the U.S. after he allegedly helped with the 2022 cross-border smuggling of an Indian family of four who froze to death in Manitoba. U.S. authorities were concerned that Fenil Patel, 37, who also goes by the name Fenilkumar Kantilal Patel, would flee Canada – possibly to India – according to new court documents filed in Ontario and Minnesota, verified by The Globe and Mail.
     

Toronto police arrested accused of smuggling Indian family to U.S. out of fear he would flee Canada

17 septembre 2025 à 17:55
Jagdish Patel, 39; his wife Vaishaliben Patel, 37; their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi; and their three-year-old son, Dharmik in a handout photo.

A Minnesota court requested the arrest of a Canadian resident this month so he can stand trial in the U.S. after he allegedly helped with the 2022 cross-border smuggling of an Indian family of four who froze to death in Manitoba.

U.S. authorities were concerned that Fenil Patel, 37, who also goes by the name Fenilkumar Kantilal Patel, would flee Canada – possibly to India – according to new court documents filed in Ontario and Minnesota, verified by The Globe and Mail.

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • Ottawa calls on Supreme Court to clarify the law around use of Charter’s notwithstanding clause
    Ottawa is calling on the Supreme Court of Canada to clarify the law around governments’ use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, arguing that courts should have a bigger role in such cases than previously granted by legal precedent.If the Supreme Court accepts Ottawa’s arguments, it will mark the first substantive limits on governments’ use of the notwithstanding clause to override the rights of Canadians since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982.
     

Ottawa calls on Supreme Court to clarify the law around use of Charter’s notwithstanding clause

17 septembre 2025 à 16:07
The federal government detailed its arguments in a legal filing at the Supreme Court on Wednesday as part of the landmark case on Quebec’s secularism law.

Ottawa is calling on the Supreme Court of Canada to clarify the law around governments’ use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, arguing that courts should have a bigger role in such cases than previously granted by legal precedent.

If the Supreme Court accepts Ottawa’s arguments, it will mark the first substantive limits on governments’ use of the notwithstanding clause to override the rights of Canadians since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982.

B.C. Premier David Eby travels to Ottawa to lobby Carney for major projects funding

17 septembre 2025 à 12:51
Prime Minister Mark Carney with British Columbia Premier David Eby, April 7. Eby is leading a mission to Ottawa that will last until Thursday.

British Columbia Premier David Eby is off to Ottawa to lobby the federal government for more investment in major infrastructure projects in the province.

The Premier’s Office says in a statement that Eby is leading a mission to Ottawa that will last until Thursday, and the itinerary includes a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on priorities for B.C.’s economic growth.

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • 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 of sexual assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm, sexual exploitation, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and assault. The charges relate to 30 victims − all boys but one.
     

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

17 septembre 2025 à 11:25
The Nova Scotia Youth Centre in Waterville, N.S., pictured on Wednesday. The province's RCMP says Donald Williams was arrested at his home last week in Dartmouth on sexual-assault 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 of sexual assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm, sexual exploitation, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and assault. The charges relate to 30 victims − all boys but one.

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • 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.

  • ✇The Globe and Mail
  • 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.

© Sean Kilpatrick

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) national headquarters in Ottawa on June 28, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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