As the two-year anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears, the federal government says it’s spending almost $500,000 to help expand access to basic legal advice for Ukrainians looking to settle temporarily in Canada. The three-year funding envelope will not pay for lawyers to advocate on behalf of individual clients, but will be used … Read more
The government of Canada did not see any evidence backing up Israel’s claim that staff employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) colluded with Hamas before suspending funding to the agency, CBC News has learned. Government sources tell CBC that Israel still has not shared evidence with Canada to substantiate its claim that 12 employees of … Read more
CEO pay in the oil and gas sector has soared with the industry’s post-pandemic resurgence and will likely increase even more with the completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion this year, a new report projects. The report released Wednesday by the Bedford Consulting Group looked at C-Suite salaries, bonuses and other forms of executive … Read more
“War,” said British philosopher, mathematician and pacifist Bertrand Russell, “does not determine who is right — only who is left.” Those words might be the perfect lens through which to view what probably lies ahead for Ukraine in the coming year as its troops dig in — and dig deep — along a front roughly 960 kilometres wide. … Read more
