Month: July 2020

Remember how people would joke about moving to Canada when things would go terribly, politically? Like, say, after America had invaded the wrong country. People here, especially liberal Seattle people, would vow: “That’s it, I’m moving to Canada.” Well it turns out we need a new joke. Because Canada isn’t having it anymore. They don’t […]

Ottawa 67’s coach and vice president of hockey operations Andre Tourigny is a positive face for Canadian junior hockey these days. From winning the Brian Kilrea Award as the CHL’s coach of the year in 2019-20 to taking over as head coach of Canada’s defending gold medal winning world junior squad, the junior world is […]

Individually, each member of the Nurse family makes for an interesting story. Combined, their athletic achievements are remarkable enough to have caught the attention of a filmmaker who is producing a documentary on the talented kids and their parents. The hour-long profile being made by Uninterrupted Canada has been in production for months and is […]

Air Canada’s Chief Medical Officer today issued a letter urging the Canadian government to consider a science-based approach to easing the Quarantine Act restrictions, which have been essentially unchanged since March, to strike a better balance for travellers and for the Canadian economy without adversely impacting public health. Air Canada is not proposing relaxing the U.S. border […]

The letter circulated by Huawei Technologies Co. was blunt. Canada was becoming dangerously entangled in the diplomatic feud between Washington and Beijing, it said, and there was only one answer: for Justin Trudeau’s government to free the state-championed tech giant’s chief financial officer and let her go back to China. It sounds like a warning from the […]

The NHL and NHLPA’s four-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) extension reportedly will include a possibility for NHL players to return to the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China in 2022 and Milan, Italy in 2026. NHL players were made available for the event for five straight games prior to the 2018 games in PyeongChang, South Korea. […]

Just when and how the next hockey season will commence is still uncertain, though optimism has been buoyed, at least somewhat, by Canada’s relative success in combatting COVID-19. Lingering questions about the status of the coming campaign, however, have done little to dissuade Sudbury Wolves prospects from making arrangements for 2020-21, with several committing to […]

Canada is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in the wake of new Chinese national security legislation and could boost immigration from the former British colony, top officials said on Friday. China imposed the legislation this week despite protests from Hong Kongers and Western nations, setting what is a major financial hub on a more authoritarian track. Prime […]

Two Americans have been charged after police say they failed to comply with Canada’s mandatory quarantine order. The Ontario Provincial Police say two people from Excelsior, Minn. entered the country through the Fort of Frances port of entry on June 24. “Along with other stipulations, the two were instructed by Canada Border Services Agency to […]

Migrant workers and other non-permanent residents — many of whom have been working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic — took to the streets in cities across Canada on Saturday, calling on Ottawa to grant them greater rights and protections. Temporary foreign farm labourers, care workers, international students and undocumented workers who have been working […]