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Author: Matteo Cimellaro
Publication Date: February 18, 2026 - 04:01
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Asylum seekers to face brunt of IRCC cuts through co-payments of dental and prescription coverage: analysis
February 18, 2026
Almost half of the spending reduction in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will come from a single cut to the health coverage of asylum seekers, according to a new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Read More
A Toronto anti-Israel demonstration can go ahead on Saturday as planned.
An Ontario judge denied the provincial government’s attempt to obtain a court injunction to shut it down.
The dismissal of the request arrived less than an hour before the Al-Quds Day rally in downtown Toronto was scheduled to begin. Similar rallies are planned for other Canadian cities.
Ontario’s lawyers were grilled during the Saturday afternoon hearing as they argued the protest was a forum for antisemitism and should be shut down given heightened tensions that have arisen around the U.S.-Israeli war in...
March 14, 2026 - 14:46 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
March 14, 2026 - 14:44 | Laura Stone | The Globe and Mail
A court has rejected the Ontario government’s request to stop an Al-Quds Day protest in Toronto, ruling the province did not meet the legal threshold required to block the rally.
March 14, 2026 - 14:39 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Canada





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