Unpublished Newswire
Some First Nations are raising concerns about the federal government's plan to provide up-front approvals for major projects, with one grand chief calling it a "fool's errand."
May 30, 2025 - 18:16 | | CBC News - Canada
Canada is calling on Israel to abandon plans unveiled Thursday to authorize 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, which Canada says would be illegal.Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and East Jerusalem, in the 1967 Arab–Israeli war and the Palestinians want all three territories for a future state.
May 30, 2025 - 18:04 | Dylan Robertson | The Globe and Mail
In the former Bond Place Hotel in downtown Toronto, which is now a supportive housing building, a brightly decorated six-foot-tall vending machine is placed in the facility’s newly renovated lobby, ready to dispense items. Instead of confectionery or other snacks, it distributes life-saving supplies – naloxone, clean syringes, HIV testing kits, personal hygiene products – for free.
May 30, 2025 - 17:58 | Matthew Konhauser | The Globe and Mail
The Toronto District School Board has been stopped from erasing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas from its schools.
The new legislation, introduced by Ontario education minister, Paul Calandra, on May 29, will require a board to apply to the minister before changing the name of an existing school.
If a board began using a new name on Jan. 1, 2025 or afterward, the law would still enable the minister to require a board to apply for approval.
Then it will be open to the minister to approve or reject the new name.
The legislation...
May 30, 2025 - 17:49 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Premier Doug Ford says he encouraged efforts to remove a wooden structure that, for five years, has hidden the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on the Ontario Legislature’s front lawn, saying the province has to support Canada’s first prime minister and stop worrying about the past.The decision to reveal the statue, pushed by Progressive Conservative and Liberal members of a legislative committee earlier this week, has reignited debate about Macdonald’s tainted legacy at a time when the province is facing new tensions with First Nations.
May 30, 2025 - 17:48 | Laura Stone | The Globe and Mail
A suspect has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a public bathroom in Vancouver on Wednesday, police say. The incident was part of an "alleged crime spree" that included a second assault and a bank robbery.
May 30, 2025 - 17:47 | | CBC News - Canada
