Afghan women ministers made pleas to Canadian politicians for help two months before the Taliban took control of Kabul, Sen. Salma Ataullahjan says.
Day: October 4, 2021
Audiences across Canada will be able to share in powerful Indigenous storytelling, including seven National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced works, as the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (October 19–24) offers six days of online programming.
U.S. Open finalist Leylah Fernandez will lead Canada’s team into the finals of the Billie Jean King Cup women’s international tennis tournament in November.
Kevin J. Johnston has been sentenced to 18 months behind bars for publicly branding Toronto restaurateur and philanthropist Mohamad Fakih a “terrorist” and a “baby killer” after being ordered to stop defaming the Paramount Fine Foods owner in 2019.
The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of “a racially unjust medical system.”