For some workplaces, extending sick leave is the reasonable price of doing business.
Rural Manitoba churches try to make their case in court that pandemic restrictions contravene the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
People drink coffee outside a shop in the Psiri district of Athens on Monday. Cafes and restaurants have reopened in Greece for sit-down service for the first time in nearly six months, as part of the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions.(Petros Giannakouris/The Associated Press)
Kenney fumes as Alberta s COVID-19 case rates remain high
Alberta Health Services has said, that effective Monday, testing for coronavirus variants will now be limited to: health-care workers, hospitalized and emergency room patients, patients involved in outbreaks and recent international travellers.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu says her government embraces the concept of "vaccine passports" and will come up with a form of certification to allow vaccinated Canadians to travel internationally again.
We ve seen in the pilot project, on more than one occasion, where somebody was acting violently towards the officers and when they were advised of [the camera], it changed, said Gordon Snyder, a Thunder Bay Police Service staff sergeant who oversaw the pilot project. Not only does it add a level, obviously, of transparency and public trust and officer accountability, but it also de-escalates situations simply by having it present.
All officers are expected to wear cameras by June:
Those in the uniform patrol will wear ones on their chest that will capture what s in front of them.
Traffic unit officers will continue to wear cameras that can be attached to glasses or headwear, to gather footage from their line of sight, which had been used during the pilot project.
Canada s spy agency wants more power. How would that work?
The agency he runs fell afoul of the Federal Court and now the country s chief spy is intensifying his campaign for new powers and sounding the alarm on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service s ability to keep an eye on hostile foreign states. But civil liberty advocates say Parliament should be wary if it agrees to change CSIS’s legislation.
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