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April 20, 2021 - 9:12 AM OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government’s first budget in more than two years makes big promises on child care, the environment and readying the country’s economy for a post-pandemic rebound. But there is also a veritable grab bag of smaller promises as well. Here are some of the more interesting: — $100 million over three years for innovative mental health interventions for populations disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, including he...

Federal Budget 2021: A look at some of the promises you might have missed by The Canadian Press Last Updated Apr 19, 2021 at 4:44 pm EDT OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government’s first budget in more than two years makes big promises on child care, the environment and readying the country’s economy for a post-pandemic rebound. But there is also a veritable grab bag of smaller promises as well. Here are some of the more interesting: — $100 million over three years for innovative mental h...

Article content OTTAWA — The first federal budget in more than two years extends Ottawa’s COVID-19 “lifeline” for those still struggling after a difficult year — including aid for laid-off workers — another few months as it aims to pull Canada through the pandemic once and for all. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s first crack at a budget plan is also widely viewed as a pre-election platform. There is more than $100 billion in new spending over the next three years targeting a ...

Lawyers acting for women caught up in the CervicalCheck debacle have reported Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to the Data Protection Commission.

Yesterday it was revealed that 2950 rideshare drivers and driving instructors with a criminal record were illegally accredited by Commercial Passenger...

THE STANDARD By Charles Onyango | March 6th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Globally, Anti-microbial Resistance (AMR) is threatening the very core of modern medicine and sustainability of an effective public health response to infectious diseases. The transformation of our health system should actually be from one that provides easy access to drugs into that which provides easy access to appropriate anti-microbial treatment while reducing the risk of emergence and spread of resistance. Kenya shoul...

The Data Protection Commissioner has said she has concerns about the risks associated with the Minister of Children taking over as Data Controller of the archive of evidence given to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission when it is dissolved as expected on Sunday. Speaking on RTÉs Today with Claire Byrne, Helen Dixon said her office has been in almost constant contact with the Commission in recent weeks, and has been engaging with particular urgency about the redaction of the identity of witnes...

Monday, February 22, 2021 The internet broke barriers.  Some countries are fighting to reverse this trend and erect digital barriers on the internet.  Most of those countries are authoritarian regimes who insist on controlling information flows to their people. Some are governments trying to protect their people from the dangerous world outside their borders. In all cases, these barriers hurt U.S. businesses. Erecting barriers on the internet is called data localization. The movemen...

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