While many Canadians continue to struggle to pay for groceries and find a place to live, the federal parliament has been paralyzed for months with filibusters and scandals.  Then, just as the new year began, work in Ottawa came to an official grinding halt as Justin Trudeau prorogued parliament until late March. Many constituents have […]

A call to start the quit journey — and resources to help. This week, Canadians from coast to coast will unite to celebrate National Non-Smoking Week, an annual initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the benefits of living smoke-free. The Lung Health Foundation (LHF) is proud to support this important week by spotlighting its comprehensive quit-smoking […]

As the Government of Canada assumes the presidency of the G7 in 2025, a coalition of leading humanitarian, development, and advocacy agencies is urging Canada’s next Prime Minister to build on the momentum of past summits and secure renewed commitments to global education in order to combat rising inequality and extremism. At the upcoming G7 […]

The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) is proud to lead the annual Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) from Oct. 6 to 12, 2024. This national campaign aims to raise awareness about the ongoing challenges many Canadians face in accessing timely mental health and substance use health care. The theme for MIAW 2024, “Access for All: […]

By the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada   Today, the federal government launched a new Co‑operative Housing Development Program to support a new generation of co-op housing in Canada and help make housing more affordable.  For decades, co-ops have provided Canadians with secure, affordable, and community-oriented homes. The new $1.5 billion program – co-designed with […]

A nation-wide alliance of various police departments across Canada is in place to help coordinate and advance a series of threat/extortion investigations underway. The RCMP National Coordination and Support Team (NCST) has been established and is working with police departments in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and outside of Canada to address a number of similar […]

A Federal Court Justice has ruled in favour of conservation groups that challenged the federal Environment Minister for failing to take action to protect the critical habitats of at-risk migratory birds across the country. This includes the threatened Marbled Murrelet, a seabird that relies on coastal old-growth forests in B.C. for nesting. Ecojustice lawyers, on […]

A new survey has found 51 per cent of Canadians would miss their mortgage payment within three months if they lost their primary source of income, while 16 per cent of mortgage holders would fall behind on their payments within 30 days. The survey, which was commissioned by online mortgage marketplace ratefilter.ca, also found that […]

By Jeffery B. Meyers, for The Conversation I have written before that the far-right populist nationalism of the sort that fuelled the events of Jan. 6, 2021 in the United States and the so-called “freedom convoy” of February 2022 in Canada are not outlier events. We live in a period in which the validity of […]

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of 37-year-old Kyle Gordon Ordway of Nanaimo. In February 2021, Ordway was charged with Forcible Confinement, Assault with a Weapon and Theft. Ordway appeared in Nanaimo Provincial Court on these charges and was later released into the community. Shortly afterwards, Ordway breached his...