Staff at MPC wear the face shields the company began making after the pandemic started.HANDOUT When businesses were ordered to shut down in March of 2020, David Yeaman was thinking of ways to keep his enterprise afloat. “We had 55 staff, 23 molding machines and a lot of capabilities. So, we thought: how do we … Read more
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a news conference after the Speech from the Throne in Edmonton, on Nov. 29.JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press Alberta Premier Danielle Smith introduced her proposed sovereignty act on Tuesday, a bill that would give her cabinet far greater powers than she promised, including the ability to rewrite laws and order … Read more
Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on April 5.Spencer Colby/The Globe and Mail Payment problems Re Most Of The Waste In Government Is On Purpose (Dec. 9): Controversy has arisen about how much money was stolen, misdirected or overpaid to undeserving individuals and corporations in Canada. Other countries are apparently aware of the same chicanery and bureaucratic … Read more
good evening, let’s start with today’s top stories: Neil Doef, a 17-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., was a few shifts into the biggest hockey game of his life when he crashed headfirst onto the boards. It was December, 2014, and Doef had been chosen to represent Team Canada East at the World Junior A Challenge, … Read more
Jitender Sareen, the head of the psychiatry department at the University of Manitoba, says the daunting task to resolve issues related to expanding medically assisted death to people with mental illness by March.Shannon VanRaes/The Globe and Mail The association representing the lead psychiatrists at Canada’s 17 medical schools is calling on the federal government to … Read more
25 October 2022 McCarthy Tetrault LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On September 28, 2022, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada (“FINTRAC“), released its latest Operational Alert for Laundering of Proceeds from Illicit Cannabis (“Operational Alert“). The purpose of the Operational Alert … Read more
The Canadian dollar CADUSD was unchanged against its US counterpart on Friday, with the currency holding on to its prior day’s gains as global equity markets rose and despite domestic data showing factory sales fell for a fourth straight month. Stocks rose and bond yields fell amid speculation of a British government U-turn on fiscal … Read more
People shop for produce and seafood at the Granville Island Market in Vancouver on July 20, 2022.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press The International Monetary Fund said it expects “substantial further cooling” of the Canadian economy, and advised the federal government and provincial governments to refrain from spending windfall revenues as the country teeters on the edge … Read more
Janet Conners underwent a cancer biopsy on Aug. 4, which revealed stage 4 lung cancer. She spent the last two weeks of her life in a palliative care facility.Scott Munn/The Globe and Mail On April 14, 1993, then Nova Scotia health minister George Moody announced that the province would be providing compensation to a couple … Read more
Hello, Scientists and researchers marched on Parliament Hill Thursday for a Support our Science rally, with the group calling for a living wage for early-career researchers. The group is calling for a funding increase for grad students and post-doctoral scientists who are supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, an open … Read more
