Central bankers have handed us rates near zero to keep the economy going during the pandemic recession, but watch out, the good news is a reminder that bad news can’t last forever.
Day: November 10, 2020
Both the present and former ombudsmen for federal prisoners say the Correctional Service of Canada must make changes to a prison practice called ‘dry celling,’ where prisoners are kept in a cell with the lights constantly on, without a flushing toilet or running water.
The family of an Manitoba woman wants to know why she died in an RCMP jail cell hours after being picked up on suspicion of being intoxicated.
One of the country’s former top military commanders is helping to lead a push to honour some veterans of combat in the Afghanistan war with Canada’s highest military honour — the Victoria Cross.
A Toronto chemical engineering professor has won the $1 million Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, the country’s top science prize, for her work designing gels that mimic human tissues.