Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Joe Bongiorno
Publication Date: January 24, 2025 - 14:04
Ottawa planning processing centre for asylum seekers in Quebec near U.S. border
January 24, 2025
Canadian authorities are planning to open a processing centre for asylum seekers near the United States border in Quebec in case there is a sharp rise in the number of would-be refugees entering Canada.Earlier this week, the federal government published a notice seeking office space it could lease to accommodate reception and meal distribution areas as well as a waiting room for up to 200 people at a time.
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Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste says his decision to drop out of the federal Liberal leadership race was partly motivated by a lack of money.The Indigenous politician from Cape Breton said Friday that raising enough cash to cover the $350,000 deposit required by the party by Feb. 17 would have been a huge challenge.
February 1, 2025 - 07:42 | Michael MacDonald | The Globe and Mail
'I do think their ideology is definitely not pacifist... they're willing to do violence. There were times when they believed violence was justified when normal people would not'
February 1, 2025 - 07:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
The sentence for first-degree murder – 25 years in jail without the chance of parole – faces a legal reckoning after a judge in British Columbia this week ruled the law’s inflexibility violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.The B.C. Supreme Court ruling from Justice David Crossin, published Wednesday, reopens a national debate and potentially sparks a years-long legal odyssey over one of the country’s longest-standing mandatory minimum criminal punishments.
February 1, 2025 - 07:00 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
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