Several Hongkongers applied for a Canadian immigration pathway using illegitimately obtained academic qualifications, including a candidate found to have finished a year’s worth of coursework in just two weekends, according to court papers. The cases came to light in documents from Canada’s Federal Court, which has rejected at least seven open work permit applicants from…
NEED TO KNOW Aziz Benharref of Ottawa, Canada, was among the 16 killed in the Sept. 3 funicular crash in Lisbon, Portugal His wife, who survived, said that they swapped sweats as they got on board “I kept asking and for like two nights nobody knows or at least he didn’t told me what happened…
Gov. JB Pritzker wants to keep cellphones out of classrooms. He’s told educators he’ll sign legislation requiring districts to have policies in place for the upcoming school year. Superintendents in the Illinois Valley said they’re already there – in fact, many districts have policies governing electronic devices, not merely cellphones. Oglesby Elementary Superintendent Michael Pillion…
Apr 05, 2025 07:16 AM IST While details of the incident were not known immediately, the Indian embassy in Canada said police has taken a suspect into custody. The Indian Embassy in Canada on Saturday morning said it was deeply saddened by the death of an Indian national in Rockland near Ottawa, due to stabbing….
A Chinese-Canadian member of parliament at the centre of a foreign interference controversy has decided to drop out ahead of high-stakes national elections this month, after his former party chose not to nominate him. Han Dong, previously an MP for the governing Liberal Party, resigned from the party in 2023 after a news report alleged…
Justin Trudeau met with new Liberal leader and prime minister-designate Mark Carney on Monday to start the transition of power after Carney’s landslide win at the Sunday party election. After the meeting Carney told reporters on Parliament Hill that the transition is expected to be “seamless” and “quick.” Meanwhile Trudeau has started the process to…
The Canadian government was slow in responding to efforts by China and India to interfere in the country’s elections but their outcome was unaffected by the meddling, an official probe said in a final report released on Tuesday. The report was the culmination of a probe set up in September 2023 in response to media…
Exercising and eating more healthily before major surgery could speed recovery and halve risk of complications, a study found. The process is known as “prehabilitation”, a term dating back to World War II when the British Army used a similar approach to improve the general health and fitness of military recruits. Researchers reviewed data from…