Some of the children — who are between the ages of 12 and 17 — were transferred hundreds of kilometres away from their home communities without any advance notice

A TPL spokesperson said the library will be “reviewing the books to determine whether there are racial and cultural representation concerns.”

Case spotlights debate over public pressure versus quiet diplomacy

Six Toronto-area cultural attractions — including the Metro convention centre and Royal Ontario Museum — will receive $27 million from the provincial government as they struggle financially because of ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

A senior investigator found the Crown corporation contravened federal labour laws when it “failed to notify” the employment ministry after first becoming aware of a potential outbreak.

After four months of turbulent negotiations, industry leaders and politicians have expressed optimism that a deal is imminent. “I know that they’re very close,” Unifor head Jerry Dias said.

With vaccine supplies limited in Canada, delaying second doses in favour of vaccinating more people with a first dose offers the potential to rapidly accelerate vaccination programs across the country and return large swaths of normalcy by summertime.

Crown prosecutors are opposed to a family of government computer specialists — accused in an alleged $11 million COVID-19 fraud — using legal defence funds to sue the province.

A year into Canada’s COVID-19 lockdown, a full picture of the disruption of the pandemic on the country’s immigration system has finally emerged.

Justice Anne Molloy said Wednesday she hoped that by not saying Alek Minassian’s name, she would deny him the infamy he had been seeking. “That is not an order I will make, it is merely a wish, perhaps a naive one,” she said.

Chinese envoy denies genocide and tells Canada and others to butt out of its “domestic affairs.”

Minassian has been found criminally responsible for killing Renuka Amarasingha, Andrea Bradden, Geraldine Brady, So He Chung, Anne Marie D’Amico, Betty Forsyth, Chul Min (Eddie) Kang, Ji Hun Kim, Munir Najjar and Dorothy Sewell, and injuring 16 others.

Meanwhile, life expectancy in Quebec dropped in 2020 due to an increase in deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Israel is steps ahead of other nations in vaccine distribution. In a phone call earlier this year with Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory table, officials detailed how they got ahead.