Ottawa to offer universities, colleges low-cost loans to build new student housing
OTTAWA — Post-secondary institutions will be able to apply for low-interest loans to build student housing starting this fall, Housing Minister Sean Fraser says.
The federal government is tweaking an existing program to make universities, colleges, non-profits and private developers eligible for low-cost financing to build residences on and off campus.
“Canada needs more student housing and we’re going to help build it,” Fraser said at a news conference Monday.
The Apartment Construction Loan Program was topped up with an additional
Maine lawmakers consider request to give subpoena power to committee investigating mass shooting
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine legislative committee considered an emergency request on Monday to grant powers to a panel investigating last year’s Lewiston mass shooting that the state’s governor said are critical to unraveling how the killings unfolded.
An that killed 18 people in a bowling alley and a restaurant in the worst mass shooting in Maine history. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills said the panel needs subpoena power, in part to access the shooter’s military records.
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Judiciary
Lawyers push national body to pull support on expanding assisted dying eligibility
OTTAWA — The federal government is hitting pause on its plans to make medical assistance in dying available to people whose only medical condition is a mental illness — and Health Minister Mark Holland is offering no clues about a new timeline.
The country is not yet ready to take such a significant step, Holland acknowledged Monday, concurring with a findings of a joint parliamentary committee that released its final report earlier in the day.
That committee, which reconvened last year to explore whether medical professionals were prepared, concluded that fundamental issues around the
Church of England leader says a plan to send migrants to Rwanda undermines the UK’s global standing
LONDON (AP) — The leader of the Church of England said Monday that Britain will undermine its standing in the world if it enacts a government plan to send some asylum-seekers on .
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said U.K. politicians were seeking to “outsource our moral and legal responsibility for asylum seekers and refugees.”
Speaking as a member of Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, Welby said that “a pick-and-choose approach to international law undermines our global standing.
Amber Alert issued for 5-year-old girl believed to be with father accused in mother’s death
PRINCETON, Ky. (AP) — A 5-year-old western Kentucky girl reported missing after her mother was killed was found unharmed Monday with her father, who was taken into custody, police said.
The afternoon update came hours after Kentucky State Police issued an Amber Alert for Lela Black.
Troopers were called to the child’s home in Princeton on Sunday and found that her mother, Kelly Black, had been fatally shot, police said in a statement.
Authorities said they believed the girl was with her
Former Blue Jays manager Jimy Williams passes away at age 80
Former Toronto Blue Jays manager Jimy Williams has passed away at the age of 80, the club announced on Monday.
“We are saddened to learn of the passing of former Blue Jays Manager Jimy Williams,” the baseball club wrote in a statement.
“His impact on our organization will forever be remembered. Our hearts go out to Jimy’s family and friends during this difficult time.”
Ex-IRS contractor gets five years in prison for leak of tax return information of Trump, rich people
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service who to leaking tax information to news outlets about former President and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people was sentenced to five years in prison Monday.
Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., gave data to The New York Times and ProPublica between 2018 and 2020 in leaks that prosecutors said appeared to be “unparalleled in the IRS’s history.”
U.S. District Judge
Music Review: Paul McCartney and Wings’ release bare bones ‘Band on the Run’ on 50th anniversary
Sometimes less is more.
At least that’s the thought behind “Band on the Run (Underdubbed).”
Fifty years after its debut, the beloved album gets yet another rerelease, this time with a version that doesn’t include bonus tracks but instead pulls back some of the layers that were added after the original rough mixes. Hence, “underdubbed” in the title.
This isn’t the first time McCartney has revisited an album to strip off some of the bells and whistles to get closer to
A Palestinian is killed while with a group waving a white flag. Israel says it will look into it
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military announced it would review the who was killed in the Gaza Strip while walking in a group of people waving a white flag, saying footage of the episode raised concerns of possible wrongdoing by soldiers.
A video shows a group of five men walking slowly down a street in an area west of the southern city of Khan Younis, a current focus of .
As clouds of dark smoke billow overhead, the men hold their hands in the air. One waves a white flag, an
B.C. blocks new colleges seeking to enrol international students
SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia is banning new post-secondary institutions from applying to enrol international students for the next two years, as the province roots out “exploitive practices” plaguing the system.
Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson said Monday that the freeze is necessary to correct faults in an international education system that “has not been working as well as it should.”
Robinson said the province began looking into the system last March and found instances of “poor-quality education, a lack of