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June 23, 2025 - 04:01 | | CBC News - Canada
OTTAWA
— Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he is “open” to including the term “femicide” in the Criminal Code, which has long been called for by researchers and advocates looking to shine a spotlight on the issue of the killing of women and girls.
The term broadly refers to when a woman is killed by a man based on the fact that she is a woman, with varying definitions that speak to previous patterns of abuse by a male perpetrator...
June 23, 2025 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
Forty years after the Air India bombing, the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, more than half of Canadians say that it has never been treated like a national tragedy.
On June 23, 1985, Canadian Sikh terrorists blew up a bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, en route from Montreal to London, with a final destination of Mumbai. The plane exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329 people aboard. The debris washed up in Ireland.
Of those aboard the plane, most of them were Canadian citizens.
Yet, 32 per cent of Canadians told the Angus Reid Institute that they had never...
June 23, 2025 - 04:00 | Tyler Dawson | National Post
The Liberal government appears to be backsliding on its promise to provide an immediate 20-per-cent raise to Canadian military personnel, instead now unsure of when that pay hike will come and how much it will actually be. Read More
June 23, 2025 - 04:00 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
Re: Public service language rules knocked, June 17. Read More
June 23, 2025 - 04:00 | Christina Spencer, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
People who continue to suffer the effects of COVID-19 long after contracting the illness say they're concerned to be losing a major resource in Ottawa.
June 23, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
