Friday, December 8th, 2023
‘They just don’t care’: Palestinian-Canadians plead with Ottawa to help them get families out of Gaza
It’s hard for Shouq Alnajjar to hold her anger in check when she talks about the the family she left behind in Gaza. “They’re living in hell,” she said. “It’s so dangerous there.” Alnajjar, a Palestinian-Canadian, was living in Gaza City with her Palestinian husband when Israel declared war on Hamas following Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians. After weeks of waiting and anxious phone calls to Global Affairs Canada, Alnajjar was able to get herself, her husband and her mother on the approved list to leave Gaza through theRead more
MPs pass 24-hour mark of marathon voting session
MPs have been voting for more than 24 hours straight as the Opposition Conservatives fulfil a promise to stall the Liberal government’s legislation with an avalanche of votes unless it agrees to scrap parts of its carbon tax. The Tories are forcing delays by prompting 135 votes in the House, most of them on the government’s budgetary estimates. The party said this will result in round-the-clock voting that likely will last until late Friday night and stall the Liberal agenda. As proceedings moved into Friday evening, Deputy Speaker Chris d’Entremont hinted at how MPsRead more
It’s not just COVID anymore, or a triple-demic. Welcome to the ‘new norm’ of seasonal illnesses
It’s another busy fall in Canadian hospitals, with emergency department closures, long wait times, and ongoing staff shortages all making headlines. The situation can turn deadly: Two people died while waiting for care at the Anna-Laberge hospital in Châteauguay, Que., just last week. And as health-care teams remain dangerously overstretched, they’re also grappling with the pressure of what some physicians are calling a “new norm” for seasonal illnesses — a range of viral and bacterial infections all back in circulation, with COVID-19 still chief among them. “This is probably the first year since COVID started where weRead more