Tag: Canada
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada finishes atop CONCACAF despite a stumble in Panama

The Canadians did enough to allow themselves some last-minute glitches, including losses in two of their final three ...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

She’s trilingual, has a PhD and work experience. But getting a job in Canada was an ordeal. What’...

Many immigrant women are downplaying their credentials, truncating their names, altering accents or changing their ap...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
foodanddrink.scotsman.com

Funnel cakes come to Edinburgh

Canadian chef, Danielle Sullivan, who works in The Little Chartroom, is bringing funnel cakes to the capital

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

‘We’re going to Qatar.’ Canadian men’s national team clinches first World Cup appearance since 1986

John Herdman’s side put on a performance worthy of clinching Canada’s first berth at soccer’s biggest tournament sinc...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

After Costa Rican gut punch, Canada pushing for ‘historic night’ at home against Jamaica

John Herdman’s squad has another chance to become only the second Canadian men’s team to earn a spot in the World Cup...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Here’s how the Indigenous delegation’s visit with Pope Francis will unfold

There are some 170 participants — Indigenous elders, knowledge keepers, residential school survivors and youth, along...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

This Canadian cleric has been a ‘bridge’ between the Vatican and Indigenous people. And he, too, ...

Archibishop Donald Bolen has walked for years with the Indigenous communities toward healing and reconciliation with ...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

John Herdman has been the important person in Canadian soccer

The master motivator has turned around two programs, leading the women to the Olympic podium before taking the men on...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada’s unbeaten dream is gone after loss to Costa Rica, but World Cup berth can be earned on ho...

One dream died with Thursday’s loss to Costa Rica, on a night when multiple scenarios, including a second-half goal, ...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Costa Rica has been ‘evolving and growing’ in World Cup qualifying, Canada coach John Herdman warns

The Costa Ricans have been in five World Cups since 1990 and still could qualify this year.

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

A ‘troubling narrative’ has been revealed within Canada’s system to help abused migrant workers

Study sheds light on the shortcomings of special program designed to help workers leave abusive and exploitative work...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

‘We never thought our dream would end like a nightmare,’ says woman whose adoption under Muslim l...

For years, this Canadian couple went through fertility treatment 10 times before resorting to adopt in Jordan. In 201...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

She’s endured threats, attacks and now exile. But it’s red tape that may keep this Afghan activis...

Farzana Adell Ghadiya, a high-profile Afghan women’s rights activist, has been in exile before to escape from the thr...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

World Health Organization ‘likely’ to reject Canadian-developed COVID vaccine over tobacco ties, ...

Quebec-based Medicago is the only Canadian-developed dose to have been greenlit by Health Canada

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canadian auto parts firms say they have jobs for Ukrainian refugees

Canadian automotive companies are ready and willing to hire hundreds of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
politico.eu

EU hits Russia with new sanctions on luxury goods, metals and energy projects

New sanctions come as Russia shows no sign of ending Ukraine conflict.

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
politico.eu

Removing Russia’s trade privileges — what you need to know

Removal of privileges is the largely symbolic first step before countries face tougher decisions over what penalties ...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada sanctions Abramovich and others, considers airlift of Ukrainian refugees

Trudeau said his government will look at all the ways to more quickly help transfer some of the over 2 million Ukrain...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

‘We are all standing with you’: Justin Trudeau meets refugees in Poland as exodus from Ukraine co...

Thousands of traumatized refugees, mostly women and children, crowded Thursday into Warsaw’s massive central train st...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
nationalworld.com

This is when the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World is on TV

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World is coming to an end, with nine international superstars competing to win the covet...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

How the Ukrainian refugee crisis has put a spotlight on Canada — and prompted calls that it do more

Despite Canada’s speedy response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, critics say those measures may not have gone far en...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
politico.eu

Brussels paves way to slap trade tariffs on Russia

Moscow will not face the new duties immediately.

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Putin’s ‘irrationality’ means a no-fly zone over Ukraine is too risky, Canada’s top diplomat says

Russia President Vladimir Putin has displayed “irrationality” in his invasion of Ukraine, prompting NATO countries to...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Aid shipments to Ukraine have this Toronto delivery company ‘slammed in the best possible way’

This Ukrainian-Canadian family business has offered free deliveries of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and is running out...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada eases Ukraine immigration requirements, strips Russia’s trading status and increases milit...

The federal government rolled out new measures Thursday to help Ukraine and punish Russia and its military ally Belarus

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Possible deer-to-human Covid transmission detected in Canada

The suspected infection happened last November in Ontario and involved an unnamed person who had 'close contact with ...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Ottawa sends mixed signals to Canadian companies affected by sanctions on Russia

The federal government sent conflicting signals Wednesday about whether it would compensate Canadian companies hurt b...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Mother, 35, was so drunk she tipped her BABY out of its pram

Deirdre O'Riordan tried to put the buggy on the moving staircase at Canada Water station in central London but it top...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada hits more Russians with sanctions, including former president

Canada is hitting several more of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top political lieutenants with economic sanction...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Justin Trudeau’s political opponents demand more aid for Ukraine

Canada’s opposition lawmakers are backing the Liberal government’s response to the crisis in Ukraine, for now, but th...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

New report details how autocrats use the internet to harass and suppress activists in Canada

Digital technologies have given authoritarian regimes a wider reach to stifle the advocacy work of their dissidents a...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada to send anti-tank weapons and rockets to Ukraine

The Canadian government is sending lethal military supplies to Ukraine, including anti-tank weapons and rockets, cutt...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Canada travel rules ease for vaccinated Brits today with Covid test changes

Canada travel restrictions for vaccinated travellers are easing from today with PCR test requirements scrapped - but ...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Georgian refugee family waiting to resettle in Canada told to stay in their current location: Ukr...

They fled persecution in Georgia and have been stuck in Kyiv since 2012. Ottawa opened the door to the two older chil...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada’s embassy staff leaves Ukraine

Canada’s embassy personnel fled Ukraine as Russian troops launched an invasion of the eastern European country from l...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada lets Arnold Clark Cup get away with loss to Spain

Some newcomers impress bit the Canadian women are still struggling to score goals

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Russia vows to retaliate as Canada readies more sanctions

Canada is ready with a “biting” next round of penalties including export controls and financial penalties on “oligarc...

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Up-and-coming Spain the last challenge for Canada at the Arnold Clark Cup

The Spaniards boast the world’s best player and a domestic league that includes the Champions League winners.

Read Full Article
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

This 21-year-old Afghan skier fled the Taliban and fears for her life. Canada has turned her away

‘With the Taliban around, she would be dead,’ says a Canadian businessman trying to support Nazima Khairzad, now stas...

Read Full Article