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POLITICS-CANADA: Homeless Fight to Retain Housing ‘Squats’
Poor and homeless people, along with their political supporters in some cases, are taking over unoccupied or abandoned buildings in major cities across Canada - until police arrive to kick them out.CULTURE-CANADA: Multicultural Toronto Showing Signs of Division
Is Toronto's experiment in multiculturalism fraying seriously at the edges? The local Star newspaper this month has used police arrest statistics to expose how members of the black minority are singled out for harsher treatment at the hands of officers in Canada's largest city.CULTURE-CANADA: Multicultural Toronto Showing Signs of Division
Is Toronto's experiment in multiculturalism fraying seriously at the edges? The local Star newspaper this month has used police arrest statistics to expose how members of the black minority are singled out for harsher treatment at the hands of officers in Canada's largest city.RIGHTS-CANADA: Pregnant Women Tested for HIV/AIDS Without Consent
Some Canadian doctors are breaking the law by automatically testing pregnant patients for HIV/AIDS unless a woman has explicitly refused to be tested.RIGHTS-CANADA: Pregnant Women Tested for HIV/AIDS Without Consent
Some Canadian doctors are breaking the law by automatically testing pregnant patients for HIV/AIDS unless a woman has explicitly refused to be tested./ARTS WEEKLY/BOOKS: Activists are Canada’s Driving Political Force
The brightest and most politically engaged people in a northern developed nation like Canada are citizen activists, argues Canadian journalist Tim Falconer in his new book.RIGHTS-CANADA: Pregnant Aboriginals Anonymously Tested for HIV
A three-year programme in Canada's west coast province of British Columbia (BC) to anonymously test the blood of pregnant aboriginal women in rural communities is creating some controversy among aboriginal AIDS activists.POLITICS: Canada Widens Laws, Tightens Borders After 9/11
One year after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, it is difficult to know how many people have been affected by Canada's new anti-terrorism measures.CULTURE-CANADA: Pope’s Visit No Time for Church Debate – Critics
Absent from the religious hoopla surrounding the appearance of an aging and ill Pope John Paul II here, are some of the difficult issues facing the administrators of this ancient Christian faith, church critics say.LABOUR-CANADA: Strike Over City Privatising Fits Global Pattern
A two-week strike by municipal workers in Canada's largest city that left rotting garbage strewn along streets and piled in neighbourhood parks fits a profile of labour unrest world-wide in recent years.RIGHTS-CANADA: Blood System Wrong to Target Gay Donors – Activists
The agencies charged with managing Canada's blood supply are contravening this country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms by excluding blood donations from men who have had sex with other men at least once since 1977, say activists.ECONOMY: Canadian Bank Closures Hit Poor, Immigrants
Canada's poor and immigrants are being seriously disadvantaged by the closure of bank branches across the country.RIGHTS-CANADA: HIV Testing Seen to Target Africans, Refugees
Canada's new mandatory HIV testing of all incoming immigrants and refugees appears aimed at areas of the world like sub-Saharan Africa where there is a higher prevalence of HIV and AIDS.ENVIRONMENT-CANADA: Toronto Not Waiting for Agreement on Kyoto
With Canada's senior politicians split over whether to support an international treaty to stem global warming, the country's largest city is going ahead with local solutions to cut greenhouse gases.FILM-CANADA: Inuit Legend ‘Atanarjuat’ Opens in Theatres
After winning the 2001 'Camera d'or' for best first feature at Cannes and sweeping Canada's film awards, the world's first movie entirely in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit of the northern Arctic, finally opened in Canadian theatres Apr. 12.LABOUR-CANADA: Public Workers Pension Fund Boosts Privatisation
Canada has so far resisted privatising public services on the scale of countries such as Great Britain, but there are signs that profit-makers are hungrily eyeing the huge rewards to be made, say union and NGO observers.MEDIA-CANADA: Gold Giant’s Lawsuits Silence Press
A litigious "war on reporters" by Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. may have kept the press from discovering what really happened when miners were evicted from a site in Tanzania now owned by Barrick, says a journalist sued by the company.ECONOMY-CANADA: Unemployment Scheme Shows its Limitations
Three women show up for an interview in a room at the Royal York Hotel here on, coincidentally yet symbolically, the same day the federal budget is being delivered. In faster times, they might have been smoothing out sheets or folding towels but hotel employees are among the first to be burned by a new recession.RIGHTS-CANADA: Tamils Transfixed by Refugee Case
Manickavasagam Suresh is in legal limbo and so, it seems, is much of Canada's Sri Lankan Tamil community.FINANCE: Immigrants Lack Lifeline as Experts Question Asset Freeze
The ability of immigrants here to support their families back home is emerging as a casualty of the U.S.-led "war against terrorism", experts say.ENVIRONMENT: Pollution Fears Unaffected by Airline Slump
The health and environmental effects of commercial aviation remain a concern despite a downswing in air travel following Sep. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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