Nearly a year after it closed its embassy in Afghanistan following Kabul’s fall to the Taliban in 2021, the federal government was trying to plan flights out of the country to bring in an estimated 12,000 Afghans it believed were “current and future” clients of Immigration Canada, CBC News has learned. Read More Government
DUBAI (Reuters) – At least 30,878 Palestinians have been killed and 72,402 have been wounded since Oct. 7 in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday. (Reporting by Clauda Tanios; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne) Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters. Read More Health
By Matt Spetalnick and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone on Thursday to Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and told him there was an urgent need to accelerate the transition to a more inclusive government, a senior State Department … Read More Government
By Matt Spetalnick and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone on Thursday to Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and told him there was an urgent need to accelerate the transition to a more inclusive government, a senior State Department … Read More Government
Revenue, spending and net debt are all up as the Yukon government posted a $119-million budget surplus Thursday. Read More Government
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s government will on Thursday make a formal decision for the country to join NATO, it said in a statement, giving a green light to its foreign minister and prime minister to hand accession documents to U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. The Swedish handover of documents … Read More Government
Efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion may have lost some of their “flashiness” of late, but a prominent public health leader says commitments to the process remain as organizations strive to achieve greater health equity. Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the former chief medical executive for the … Read More Health
As March arrives and brings with it the promise of warmer weather, CBC is thrilled to offer exciting new shows and podcasts to captivate your senses. Watch, Listen and Stream CBC’S Top 5 for March. Read More Entertainment
The head of the largest organization in the U.S. representing African American physicians and their patients says empathetic leaders who are willing to embrace diverse viewpoints are critical to advancing equity at a time when momentum to do so has slowed. Dr. Yolanda Lawson, president of the Read More Health
The head of the largest organization in the U.S. representing African American physicians and their patients says empathetic leaders who are willing to embrace diverse viewpoints are critical to advancing equity at a time when momentum to do so has slowed. Dr. Yolanda Lawson, president of the Read More Health
