By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Canada’s coronavirus epicenters are shifting from dense urban zones to more rural or remote areas that have lower vaccination rates and fewer public health resources.
Canada appeals decision on indigenous children but seeks settlement talks
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Moira Warburton – Reuters
The Canadian government on Friday appealed a federal court decision upholding a ruling that it individually compensate indigenous children and their caregivers harmed by a discriminatory welfare system, but said it would pause the appeal while engaging in talks with the initial complainants.
Canada defends pandemic policy on asylum-seekers while letting more enter through exemptions
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
The Canadian government is trying to quash a legal challenge to its policy of turning back asylum-seekers entering the country between border crossings, saying the group bringing it lacks standing, even as it has granted a growing number of exemptions to the policy.
Canada will look to make more temporary migrants permanent, minister says
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Canada may extend the deadline of a program created this year to give temporary residents working in key sectors a route to permanent residency, and is considering expanding the program’s eligibility to include refugee claimants, Canada’s immigration minister told Reuters on Thursday.
Court backs ruling that Canada must compensate indigenous foster children for discrimination
My brain on ketamine
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Globe and Mail
I do not, as a rule, like to have things up my nose.
Canada vows to resettle Afghan interpreters, citing threat from Taliban
Hunt for indigenous children’s unmarked graves in Canada ‘barely scratched the surface’ -researcher
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
A juvenile rib, a tooth and survivors’ testimony that children were dragged from their beds in the middle of the night to dig graves in an apple orchard gave clues on where to conduct the radar search that found unmarked graves of children at a former Canadian residential school, researchers said on Thursday.
Canada looks to relocate Afghan interpreters, staff amid U.S. drawdown
Canada indigenous groups in nationwide hunt for more graves after new discoveries
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
A second discovery this week of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former Canadian residential school is giving fresh impetus to nationwide searches for more remains by indigenous groups, complicated by land rights restrictions, incomplete records and disagreements over how to honor the dead.
a business of misfits 