OTTAWA Canadians who fly into the country and have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer be forced to self-isolate for 14 days after arriving, and will no longer have to stay in a quarantine hotel, CTV News has confirmed. Fully vaccinated travellers will still have to take a COVID-19 test upon arriving in Canada and will have to isolate until that test result comes back negative. The federal government will officially announce these changes to its pandemic border measures later Wednesday, sources say. The easing of restrictions will apply to any Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
OTTAWA The federal government announced Wednesday that it will extend the eligibility for the 2006 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement to those who attended residential schools during the day but returned to their community at night. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said each eligible survivor of day schools would receive $10,000, the same amount provided to those who stayed full-time at the sites. “While many Canadians are aware of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, few are aware that not all survivors of residential schools could receive compensation under that agreement. The day scholars, those who attended a residential school during the day, but returned home at night could seek compensation for physical and sexual abuse suffered on the school premises but unlike residents, they were not eligible to receive compensation for the experience,” she said.
“And perhaps I m naive but I m a man of faith, I m not Catholic, I’m Protestant. I ve spent time in those institutions, I have good faith in others, I am hopeful in all this…I expect people to follow a court process and if there s any suspicion that these documents would be eventually subpoenaed, then those institutions have an obligation.” The Catholic Church oversaw the majority of residential schools in Canada and unlike other churches, like the United and Presbyterian churches, it has not formally apologized for the damage they caused to Indigenous Peoples. On May 28, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Since, then, there have been calls by First Nations leaders, human rights advocates, and opposition politicians for accountability and support from all levels of government as well as cooperation by the Catholic Church to find answers.
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A second senior member of the Canadian Armed Forces was quietly removed from his role in Canada’s vaccine rollout campaign in May after a complaint was made regarding language he allegedly used.