Justin Trudeau will turn his focus to the ongoing crises in Haiti as he speaks with some world leaders Monday ahead of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister will meet with the Caribbean country’s acting Prime Minister Garry Conille before delivering remarks at a high-level meeting for a UN advisory…
The outline of a liquor bottle is carved into boards just beneath the tip of the roof on one side of Chris Oliver’s barn, which sits a few feet away from the Canadian border which runs along the northern edge of his farm near Fort Covington, N.Y. The outline echoes another age along these borderlands…
The Current24:51China suddenly ends international adoptions A Quebec man and his wife are devastated after China suddenly stopped most international adoptions, dashing their hopes of adopting a little boy they’ve spent years getting to know. “We feel that we have a special connection with him,” said Pierre LeMay from Quebec City. “We receive pictures, we…
A Liberal MP says he was pushed by one of the protesters who have been gathering on Parliament Hill for the first week of the fall sitting. Several MPs say they have been harassed throughout the week by protesters who have been shouting and calling politicians and their staff “traitors.” Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed told…
New, tighter restrictions for international students at Canadian universities and colleges are worrying industry watchers, who warn that continued uncertainty about post-secondary could damage Canada’s reputation as an attractive place to study and live. Canada’s post-secondary sector was already adapting to a reduction of international study permits and other measures announced in January when Immigration Minister…
As It Happens6:34A Canadian man tried for months to get his sister out of war-torn Sudan. She died waiting When the federal government launched a program in late February to reunite people in war-torn Sudan with their families in Canada, Seif Omran Mansour was ready. The West Vancouver civil engineer got up at the crack…
Conservatives are denying any association with protesters who harassed Jagmeet Singh, among others, outside of Parliament Hill this week after Liberal ministers accused them of lending their support. A video circulated online Tuesday showing two men following the NDP leader, as one of them appears to call him a “corrupted bastard.” Singh turned around and…
Washington’s governor is set to attend an event at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla on Wednesday to mark the facility officially shutting down its death chamber. That same governor, Jay Inslee, issued a moratorium on executions early in his term, in 2014. Since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S. in the 1970s — after…
The federal government is expanding a list of Iranian officials that are inadmissible to Canada. Ottawa first introduced measures under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) in November 2022 that barred a number of senior Iranian officials from entering Canada. Those measures applied to people who were senior members of the Iranian government from…
Taylor Swift is nobody’s idea of an opening act, and she followed Kamala Harris’s first U.S. presidential debate performance minutes later by endorsing the Democratic nominee. Swift made the endorsement for the Nov. 5 presidential election in an Instagram post to her 283 million followers, calling Harris a “steady-handed, gifted leader.” “There were people this…
