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Canada leaders affirm right to choose after leak of draft U.S. ruling overturning abortion rights

May 3, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada’s Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister affirmed on Tuesday their support of women’s right to choose after a leaked draft ruling suggests the U.S. Supreme Court is prepared to strike down a landmark decision legalizing abortion.

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Canada to lift blood donation ban on sexually active gay, bisexual men

April 28, 2022May 3, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada said on Thursday it is lifting a ban on blood donations from sexually active men who have sex with men, first imposed decades ago, as part of an effort to create a “more inclusive” system.

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Exclusive: After pandemic drop, Canada’s detention of immigrants rises again

April 27, 2022May 3, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada is locking up more people in immigration detention without charge after the numbers fell during the pandemic, government data obtained by Reuters shows.

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Graying of Canada’s workforce threatens to worsen labor crunch

April 27, 2022May 3, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canadians nearing retirement outnumbered those entering the workforce by a record margin in 2021, census data released on Wednesday showed, raising fears the country’s labor shortage could worsen in coming years.

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As COVID restrictions ended, a busy winter for asylum-seekers at the Canada border

April 25, 2022May 3, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Snowy northern winters tend to see a drop in asylum-seekers crossing from the United States into Canada at Roxham Road, Quebec. Not this past winter.

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Some Canadian hospitals face COVID cancellations – again

April 21, 2022May 3, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Some hospitals in Canada’s most populous provinces are cancelling or postponing medical procedures in the face of another wave of the coronavirus pandemic, increasing backlogs of procedures that health practitioners say will take years to work through and could cost more lives.

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Canadian refugee groups gird for Supreme Court fight over asylum-seeker pact

April 6, 2022April 8, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canadian refugee advocates have filed arguments gearing up for a Supreme Court fight over an asylum-seeker pact with the United States as they seek to overturn a Federal Court of Appeal ruling they say wrongly shields government action from scrutiny.

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After Pope’s apology, Canada’s indigenous survivors want compensation, records

April 4, 2022April 8, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Pope Francis’s long-awaited apology to Canada’s indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be followed by millions of dollars in compensation and the release of residential school records, survivors and indigenous leaders said.

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Canada faces rising COVID wave as restrictions ease

March 30, 2022April 8, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Allison Lampert – Reuters

Much of Canada is facing a fresh COVID-19 wave just as authorities ease measures meant to curb the spread of the virus, emboldened by a brief drop in cases and relatively high vaccination rates.

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Impermanence nation: Canada’s growing reliance on temporary residents to meet labor needs

March 27, 2022April 8, 2022amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada is increasingly relying on temporary residents to meet its labor force needs, according to a Reuters analysis of official data, but this phenomenon makes workers vulnerable and fails to provide wage growth or stability to businesses, warn workers, advocates, economists and industry groups.

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