Canada: increase in asylum seekers after Covid restrictions blocked border entry
Numbers ticking up again after Canadian border police had refused entry to all asylum seekers to try to stop Covid spread Snowy northern winters tend...
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Killers confronted: humpback whale turns on orca pod in rare encounter
Footage shows five-year-old humpback in Canadian waters stalking and ambushing group more used to role of attackers An aggressive humpback whale appeared to turn the...
Canada ignored warnings of virus infecting farmed and wild salmon
Government was in possession of a newly-released report that linked large-scale farms and wild salmon to contagious virus Canada was warned in 2012 by its...
Salt spat highlights Canadian national park’s troubling history
Park agency’s order to stop harvesting salts for commercial gain has angered Indigenous community For years, Melissa Daniels has been travelling to the vast wilds...
Spiraling housing prices are an ‘intergenerational injustice’, says Canada’s deputy PM
Chrystia Freeland, who also serves as the finance minister, says the issue is her top domestic concern amid affordability crisis Canada’s finance minister has described...
‘Hurricane Hazel’: political icon, 101, hired to run Canada’s largest airport
Hazel McCallion retired as mayor of Mississauga after 36 years in 2014 but the ‘pragmatic populist’ has shown little sign of easing up When Hazel...
Canada bans foreign homebuyers for two years in effort to cool market
Government under pressure after prices climbed by more than 20% last year, while rental rates have also been rising Justin Trudeau’s government has announced it...
Thieving sea lions break into salmon farm and refuse to leave
Conservationists say the farms are a danger to sea lions and other marine mammals, who can become entangled in their nets Dozens of thieving sea...
Canada police renew effort to arrest ‘devil priest’ for alleged abuse of Inuit children
Royal Canadian Mounted Police say an arrest warrant was issued last month for Johannes Rivoire, who currently lives in France Police in Canada have laid...
Canada’s ‘maple syrup heist’ thief must repay millions for sweet stolen goods
Perpetrators siphoned syrup from barrels stored in Quebec’s strategic maple syrup reserves and replaced it with water Richard Vallières’s plan to make millions of dollars...
