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Politics The Liberal government says it will slash the number of international student visas it issues by another 10 per cent. Liberal government to slash number of permits by 10 per cent Anja Karadeglija · The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 18, 2024 1:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago Immigration, Refugees and…
Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada says her country is in dire need of armoured vehicles and hopes Canada’s plan to supply rebuilt troop carriers proceeds quickly. Yuliya Kovaliv appeared Tuesday before the House of Commons defence committee, where she fielded a series of questions about Canadian military support for Ukraine’s defence in its war with Russia. Earlier this…
The Paris Olympics ended less than two months ago, but Canadian gymnast Félix Dolci is already thinking about Los Angeles 2028. “L.A. was already in my mind before I even showed up in Paris, to be honest with you,” Dolci said in an interview on Monday. Dolci, 22, from Laval, Que., was a member of…
In the summer of 1978, against his top political strategist’s advice, Pierre Trudeau called a full slate of byelections to fill 15 vacancies in the House of Commons, including seven seats the Liberals had won in the previous election. As recounted in John English’s Just Watch Me, the Liberal Party’s own pollster said the governing…
The sixth-ranked Canadian women will face World Cup champion Spain in an international friendly next month. Third-ranked Spain will host Canada on Oct. 25 at Estadio Francisco de la Hera in Almendralejo. The game will be the first for the Canadian women since the Paris Olympics, where they lost to Germany in a quarterfinal penalty…
Health Canada authorized Moderna’s updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday to roll out in fall immunization campaigns. The federal vaccine portal lists approval of Moderna’s product. Provinces and territories plan fall immunization campaigns aiming to protect people from severe hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19. Guidance from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) strongly recommends updated COVID-19 vaccinations starting this fall…
The Juno Awards are reversing course on their plan to shelve three awards after strong blowback from the music community. Junos head Allan Reid posted a message on his Instagram Tuesday saying that given the feedback the organization has decided to reinstate the categories for the 2025 show. He said the children’s album, reggae recording…
Two Quebec cabinet ministers say the province will not fund a proposed graphite mine north of Gatineau because it doesn’t meet the government’s standards for local support. B.C.-based Lomiko Metals has been testing samples from its La Loutre site near the town of Duhamel, which the company says on its project website has shown “excellent graphite properties” for making…
A New Democrat MP urged the House of Commons to put politics aside and find immediate policy solutions on Monday night, as legislators held an emergency debate following six incidents in just two weeks where First Nations people were killed by police. The first day of the fall parliamentary session saw MPs sit until midnight in Ottawa,…
It’s not every day we get to see the tiny world that exists beyond our vision, but that’s what the Nikon Small World in Motion competition is all about. This is the 14th year of the competition, where past winners revealed extraordinary insights into things like the stomach contents of a termite, human cells fusing and dying during…
