Unpublished Newswire
When Parliament resumes this fall, a Conservative MP says her party will introduce legislation to end consideration of immigration status when a judge is sentencing a convicted criminal who is not a citizen.
Michelle Rempel Garner, MP for Calgary Nose Hill and shadow minister for Immigration, said the practice has essentially resulted in a two-tier justice system that allows non-citizens to get lighter sentences than Canadians convicted of the same crime.
“This offends all principles of fairness that should be foundational to our justice system,” Rempel Garner said at a press...
August 13, 2025 - 20:30 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
With its frequent fog, rainstorms and snow squalls barrelling in from the Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland and Labrador has long been known as a place with unpredictable weather. But until recently, dangerously hot and dry summers weren’t something people had to worry about. As unprecedented wildfires chase thousands from their homes in the eastern part of the province, Newfoundlanders are concerned that their usually damp island is entering new territory.
August 13, 2025 - 20:14 | Greg Mercer | The Globe and Mail
A motivated herd of lean biting machines is back on duty and cleaning up an overgrown park in northwest Calgary. About 800 goats are grazing the 58 hectares, gnawing on excess vegetation and reducing the risk of fire and promoting biodiversity.
August 13, 2025 - 20:10 | | The Globe and Mail
Two nine-month-old Scottish Highland bulls are making their debut at the Toronto Zoo. The zoo's manager of wildlife care says the brothers were born and raised at a local Ontario farm before moving there.
August 13, 2025 - 19:56 | | The Globe and Mail
Conservative MPs are calling for a parliamentary investigation into Spanish drugmaker Grifols’s GIFOF use of Canadian-donated blood plasma to make medicines for sale abroad.The call follows a Globe and Mail investigation that found Canadian Blood Services is selling some blood components to Grifols to manufacture a product called albumin, as part of a complex arrangement between the international pharmaceutical company and the Canadian charity to collect and process blood plasma.
August 13, 2025 - 19:38 | Chris Hannay | The Globe and Mail
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says the federal government needs to do more to fight Canada’s devastating forest fires.Speaking to reporters Wednesday in Ottawa, the Alberta MP accused Ottawa of “inaction” on wildfires. She also blamed that lack of action for new measures restricting activities in the forests of two provinces — even though those bans were imposed by the provinces themselves.
August 13, 2025 - 18:26 | Nick Murray | The Globe and Mail
