Canada

The Windsor Police Service has charged a correctional officer with the alleged sexual assault of an inmate at a local detention centre.

Authorities say they were alerted earlier this month about alleged offences between May and November of this year while the officer was assigned to supervise female inmates.

The correctional officer is a 47-year-old man.

Investigators with Windsor police believe there may be additional victims who have not yet come forward. Anyone who believes they may have been sexually assaulted or victimized is urged to contact them.

The fifth estate obtained internal Health Canada reports that reveal the federal government was advised by its own experts to expand access to a greater range of safe and regulated drugs for people across Canada but that instead, at the height of the opioid overdose crisis, the government’s support for safe supply programs was watered down and eventually ended in March.

The internal documents reveal that in 2023 experts told Health Canada to support non-medical safe supply, such as legal and regulated compassion clubs. Months later, two people were arrested and charged with drug trafficking for opening a compassion club that was trying to save lives.

Hydromorphone tablets, also known by the brand name Dilaudid, were cheap to dispense and were already familiar to people who bought street drugs — on the illicit market they are often called “dillies.” The goal of prescribing them wasn’t to get people off drugs and into treatment. It was to keep them alive and away from the toxic street supply.

Democracy is not a political system that guarantees good results or fairness. It just allows ordinary people to have influence if they are willing to fight hard enough.

If you are not happy with politicians, get involved. Pay attention to parliament. Get involved. Write to them. Join an organization. Consider joining a party and running for office. Never take Canadian democracy for granted.

Lest we forget.

A report shows the Defence Department’s already poor transparency record is getting worse.

Winnipeg Transit’s crackdown on fare evasion has denied nearly 5,000 rides in just over two months, according to new figures released Wednesday that the city says shows progress on curbing revenue loss and safety concerns.

Since expanded enforcement began in September, transit inspectors have completed more than 6,800 fare checks while community safety officers have logged more than 1,400 hours on buses and at transit stops.

The city says those efforts have resulted in 4,944 denied rides, another 2,670 people walking away before being prompted to pay, 931 warnings and 359 riders paying after being asked.

Nearly two years after complaining to Hockey Canada about bullying and sexual misconduct on a Hamilton youth hockey team, a family is relieved they don’t have to keep it secret anymore.

“The big win is we can now talk about it,” said the mother of one of the victims. “The public needs to know when maltreatment is taking place and what the sanctions are.”

It found the team had a "toxic" culture and that coaches breached dressing room policy by “failing to properly supervise the dressing rooms.”

The six players denied any involvement and the coaches denied any knowledge of the activities.

Canada just lost its measles-free status. So here’s the question..

If an unvaccinated child spreads measles to someone else’s kid, why shouldn’t the parents be liable in small-claims court?

I’m not talking about criminal charges, just basic responsibility. If your choice creates the risk you should have to prove you weren’t the reason someone else’s child got sick.

Is that unreasonable?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55055190

Since last year, an investigation into the ability of new grocers to set up in the Halifax Regional Municipality has been quietly ticking along under Competition Bureau Canada.

The competition bureau is looking into the use of documents by Sobeys and Loblaw called property controls. These are legal instruments that can block competitors from setting up stores on certain properties.

While the agency is mainly focused on the Halifax area, it’s also looking into the use of property controls throughout Canada.

As Canada looks to recalibrate relations with China amid the ongoing trade war with the U.S., former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig is warning against making China “the core” of its economic diversification strategy.

“Making China the core of that strategy (is) not a good idea, because it’s not geopolitically a reliable partner,” Kovrig said in an exclusive interview with CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday. “As it’s demonstrated time and again, if you create dependency on China, it will weaponize it for political purposes and to silence Canada and constrain our foreign policy.”

Kovrig’s comments come one week after Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea. It was the first meeting between the countries’ two top leaders in eight years.

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Allegations of foreign interference against China have also persisted, with the final report of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference calling China “the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canada’s democratic institutions,” earlier this year.

While Carney described his meeting with Xi as a “turning point” in the relationship, he also acknowledged differences between the two countries when speaking to reporters afterwards.

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Kovrig has previously said dropping tariffs on Chinese EVs would be a mistake and would give China too much leverage in future negotiations.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55029033

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_municipalities_in_Canada_by_population

Just based on the cultural impact and references to both, I expected Vancouver, home of the canadian movie industry AND where a shitload of yank stuff gets shot to be a far more populous city than Winnipeg, whose landmark cultural touchstones are a joke about going back there in the simpsons, and "Winnipeg is a frozen shithole" by venetian snares.

EDIT : Oh, metropolitan vancouver still has more people than metropolitan winnipeg. Ignore this post I guess?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_Metropolitan_Region
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District

One party resolution called on the government to stop designating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

Cause you know the Alberta government knows better than the scientific community.

This is what happens when political leaders act irresponsibly.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/smith-apologizes-for-comparing-vaccinated-albertans-to-followers-of-hitler/