Social / CSR in Canada
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CANADA, 2017/01/16
Canada's "apartheid system" of reserves shares some of the blame for a string of suicides that devastated an Innu community on Quebec's North Shore in 2015, a coroner's inquest has found.
Coroner Bernard Lefrançois was tasked last year by the Quebec government with looking into the deaths of four women and one man over a nine-month period in Uashat-Maliotenam, an Innu reserve near Sept-Îles, Que.
Report on Innu suicides hopes to shed light on causes
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CHINA, 2016/09/02
The Canadian government will open seven additional visa application centres in China to help serve a growing number of Chinese tourists who are crossing the Pacific to explore Canada.
The two nations confirmed the agreement Thursday in a joint statement that followed the initial leg of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official visit to China.
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CANADA, 2016/07/11
Employment was little changed in May (+14,000 or +0.1%). With fewer people searching for work, the unemployment rate declined 0.2 % points to 6.9%, the lowest rate since July 2015.
Full-time employment rose by 61,000 in May. This increase was largely offset by a decline of 47,000 in part-time work.
In the 12 months to May, employment increased by 109,000 or 0.6%, the result of gains in full-time work. Over the same period, the number of hours worked grew by 0.8%.
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CANADA, 2016/07/11
Alberta's unemployment rate surged from 7.2 to 7.8 % in May as the massive wildfire in Fort McMurray forced production shutdowns in the oilsands, even as the province continues to transaction with an economic downturn.
The total number of hours worked across all industries as well fell 5.1 %, marking the major monthly decline in the province in 30 years, according to Statistics Canada.
Alberta unemployment rate ticks up to 7.2% in April as jobs stagnate nationwide
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CANADA, 2016/07/11
The pain of the oil price crash in Alberta has mostly been expressed through job losses, with the idea being that if we can put a number on it, we can get a sense of just how bad the downturn has been.
"We want to know about the drop in employment, because it tells us how a lot of people are going through a particularly tough time in their life," said Trevor Tombe, an economist with the University of Calgary.
"If it's just a drop in profit or shares fall, it's a different kind of pain, it's much additional broadly and evenly spread, but job losses are a concentrated type of cost that's felt by individual families, so it's an significant number to know."
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CANADA, 2016/07/11
Faced with a continued unwillingness by Canada and the U.S. to lift contentious visa requirements, the European Commission has given the European Union's Parliament and Council three months to "urgently launch discussions" on the "appropriate way forward."
April 12 had been set as a deadline for five nations — Canada, the United States, Brunei, Japan and Australia — to comply with the EU's policy of visa reciprocity, which requires nations whose citizens don't need EU visas to, in return, allow visa-free travel for all EU nationals.
EU visa standoff strains allies Canada needs to pass trade deal
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CANADA, 2016/03/04
What has been considered a joke is presently being taken seriously.
Next Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's Super Tuesday surge, Google reported a 1,500 % increase in searching variations of the phrase "how to move to Canada."
Last month, a resident of the Canadian island of Cape Breton invited Americans who hate to see having Trump as their president to live in his land.
Rob Calabrese, a 39 year-old local radio disc jockey, created a website called "Cape Breton If Donald Trump Wins" to pitch the Nova Scotian island as a perfect escape from a Trump presidency.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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CANADA, 2014/03/05
As concerns heighten over the recall of former St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Deputy New York Consul General, Edson Augustus, the Canadian government has announced that it is cracking down on citizenship fraud.
Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said he is reinforcing the government’s commitment to tackling citizenship fraud through measures proposed in Bill C-24, the “Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act.”
“The government is cracking down on citizenship fraud by enforcing stronger penalties for those who do not play by the rules,” said Alexander in a statement.
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CANADA, 2013/10/13
Canada's Alice Munro won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her short stories that focus on the frailties of the human condition, the 13th woman to win the coveted award.
The Swedish Academy described Munro, 82, as a “master of the contemporary short story,” a genre that has only rarely been honored with the world's most prestigious literary prize.
Munro said she was “just terribly surprised” — and delighted — to learn that she had won the Nobel, next being woken by her daughter with the news.
