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Ten years since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)'s final report, more students are marking Orange Shirt Day each September. Also known as Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, many spend at least part of the day learning about residential schools, where Indigenous children were forced into government-funded, church-run schools to strip away their culture.

"Can we do it for the other 364 days?" he said from Yellowknife.

Sinclair believes many areas with a high Indigenous population — across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Northwestern Ontario, for instance — absolutely understand working together to achieve the TRC's recommendations, which spell out ways to address the legacy of residential schools.

Yet "in many corners of the country, we're still having a conversation about the why, not about the how," said Sinclair, whose father was the late Murray Sinclair, the judge and senator who chaired the commission.

After menopause, urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be more frequent, yet most Canadian women (82 per cent in a recent survey) don’t realize the two are associated.

Authors

• Erin A. Brennand - Gynecologist & Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
• Jayna Holroyd-Leduc - Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, University of Calgary
• Pauline McDonagh Hull - PhD Candidate, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Humber River Health is suing the consortium contracted to build and maintain its Toronto hospital for $100 million, alleging that negligent design and construction is creating health and safety problems for patients and staff.

The lawsuit, filed in early April, alleges that a "sizable portion" of the hospital's floors are not level or flat and that some of the flooring itself is deteriorating.

"Floor levelness is a critical operational and safety issue," reads Humber River Health's claim, filed in Ontario Superior Court.

"Non-level floors make it difficult for staff to move equipment, supplies, food, and patients on wheeled transportation devices. Often, wheeled carts have to be placed behind rubber stoppers to prevent the carts from sliding out of position."

The fraudster who called Judge asked for his birth date and mother's maiden name, which Judge shared. But then the fraudster asked him to share a "one-time passcode" — a type of two-step verification — that was texted to his phone.

Judge says he refused to do that, because the message also told him not to share the code with anyone, and said that no one from Scotiabank would ever ask for it.

The fraudster claimed that he stopped the charges from going through and hung up.

But two days later, Judge discovered a charge for $17,900 to Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. on his statement, and a second for $1,800, supposedly paid to someone by the name of Paula S. Taylor.

"All that the bank has done is accuse [Judge] of either negligence or malice," said Claudiu Popa, who has 35 years' experience in cybersecurity and wrote The Canadian Cyberfraud Handbook.

Maureen and Greg McBratney didn't have many options for places to stay when wildfire forced them to leave their home in Denare Beach, Sask., late last week.

Maureen, 65, has kidney failure and usually receives dialysis three times a week across the border in Flin Flon, Man., but that city has also been evacuated due to an out-of-control fire very close to the community.

"We're staying at a hotel right now because we don't know anyone in Yorkton," Greg said. "We've tried to contact Red Cross and our house insurance [to pay for a hotel]."

"We have nowhere to go after Friday. We're getting kicked out of the hotel because they're fully booked," Greg said.

"If you know anyone in Yorkton who wants to put up with a couple of old people for awhile, let us know."

Hundreds of wildfire evacuees who were allowed to carry only one bag with them as they scrambled to get out of northern Manitoba are in need of donations, as it could be weeks before they can go back home.

Roughly 240 evacuees from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, have been sheltering at the Winnipeg Soccer Federation North complex on Leila Avenue, along with about 400 people from Pimicikamak Cree Nation.

Thousands of people in both northern Manitoba communities were put under mandatory evacuation orders last week after separate out-of-control wildfires moved closer to the First Nations.

Mary Sylvia Caribou, an emergency measures co-ordinator with Pukatawagan, said each evacuee was only allowed to bring one bag with them from their homes, and donations are needed.

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Florence Girard, a woman with Down syndrome, weighed about 50 pounds when she died in 2018 in the Port Coquitlam home of Astrid Dahl, a caregiver funded through Crown corporation Community Living B.C. (CLBC).

After the week-long inquest into Girard's death in January, a jury made 11 recommendations to CLBC, including better pay for front-line caregivers and changes to support family members of a vulnerable individual who want to care for their relative in their home.

Now, the province says it is commissioning an independent review of the organization's home-sharing program, to be conducted by contractor Tamar Consultancy.

Tamara Taggart, the president of advocacy organization Down Syndrome B.C., said the province didn't need to hire a consultancy firm to make changes at CLBC, given the inquest's recommendations in January.

"I have no idea how much money this is costing, but whatever it is, it's too much because we know what the answers are," she told CBC News.

At 2 a.m. one night in March 2023, two Ottawa police officers pulled into a shopping plaza at the corner of Merivale and Baseline roads to get food at a fast food restaurant when they noticed something strange in the lot: a parked red Subaru, which was running, with someone asleep in the driver's seat.

That someone turned out to be a 29-year-old man known to police. And inside the vehicle, Const. Anthony Kiwan and Const. Ali Sabeeh found everything they needed to put him away for a while.

In plain view on the back seat was a prohibited Glock handgun with a round in the chamber and a prohibited over-capacity magazine capable of holding 30 rounds attached. The officers also found significant quantities of meth, cocaine, crack and Oxycodone pills. And to top it off, on his cellphone were pictures and videos of the man:

• Posing with 14 handguns, sometimes with multiple guns in the same image, some of which were equipped with prohibited over-capacity magazines.
• Preparing and packaging what looked like drugs.
• Flaunting large piles of cash.

But last month, he walked out of the Ottawa Courthouse a free and innocent man after the trial against him collapsed.

All the evidence found in the Subaru was excluded because the officers had seriously breached the man's Charter rights. They'd detained him under the guise of a sham impaired driving investigation, falsified their reports, then continued the lie in court under oath, according to the transcript of a decision read in court last month by Ontario Court Justice Mitch Hoffman.

A First Nations chief is calling on the Manitoba government to use the Emergency Measures Act to free up hotel space in Winnipeg to help house thousands of wildfire evacuees.

Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias wrote a letter to the provincial government Monday, imploring it to use emergency legislation to order hotels to prioritize accommodations for evacuees.

"This is about protecting lives, keeping families together and ensuring our people are not subjected to further trauma or indignity," Monias said in a statement.

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Crown corporation has asked Ottawa to force union vote on its latest proposals

Former prime minister Stephen Harper called on Canada to renew its ties with India, arguing in a speech on Saturday that the country is an indispensable partner in a volatile world.

He also said Canadian political parties — including the Conservative Party he once led — should cut all ties with activists calling for the creation of a Sikh nation.

In his remarks at an event in Brampton, Ont., Harper did not mention the RCMP linking the government in New Delhi to widespread acts of murder, extortion and coercion across Canada.

There was cautious optimism in the air as provincial and territorial premiers began arriving in Saskatoon to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The first ministers are meeting on Monday, and Carney has said he wants to hear provincial ideas for "nation-building projects."

The prime minister struck an optimistic tone as he spoke to the premiers in front of reporters at the meeting table on Monday.

"The coming weeks and months will be critical, really, to turn the momentum that's been created by you around this table — that the federal government is looking to add to — to translate that momentum, those ideas into action," Carney said.

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More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remain active and diminish air quality in parts of Canada and the US, according to officials.

Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba, which declared a state of emergency last week. About 17,000 people there were evacuated by Saturday, along with 1,300 in Alberta. About 8,000 people in Saskatchewan had been relocated as leaders there said the number could climb.

Smoke was worsening air quality and reducing visibility in Canada and into some US states along the border on Sunday.

Du lot, on retrouve notamment des dispositions pour « suspendre le traitement des nouvelles demandes [dans un programme d’immigration donné] pour des raisons jugées d’intérêt public », et ce, « en masse », peut-on lire dans un document d’information détaillant les mesures.