CALGARY India is battling record-setting COVID-19 infections and related deaths and some Calgarians who travelled there are having a tough time returning home since Canada halted incoming passenger flights from that country. Sangeeta Sharma admits she knew she was taking a chance when she landed in India on March 18
th but at that time numbers were tracking down. The president of NIWE Academy, a cosmetology school in Calgary, says she travelled to India for a business trip to finish a project that had been on hold because of the pandemic. Sharma says she contracted COVID-19 a week in to her trip. She quarantined for 14 days and says she has since recovered. She says cases started to surge about ten days after she arrived.
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OTTAWA Canada’s international trade minister on Monday would not provide details about whether the federal government has barred the flow of imported goods from China suspected of using forced labour, months after Ottawa introduced measures purportedly to stop the practice.
In a committee testimony, Minister Mary Ng declined to answer questions from a Conservative MP about how much, if any, imports from the Chinese region of Xinjiang Canadian authorities have intercepted since the Liberal government said it would be cracking down on the issue in January.
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Kitchener woman stranded in India heartbroken, super stressed after flight ban
A Kitchener, Ont., woman who travelled to India earlier this month for her father’s funeral says she’s scrambling to find a way home. Sandeep Sohal is stuck in Punjab after Ottawa banned passenger flights from India and Pakistan to Canada due to soaring COVID-19 case counts.
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EDMONTON An Alberta Christian university student council has disavowed its own apology, issued after a Black History Month speaker denied the existence of systemic racism in a speech on Biblical definitions of racism.
Last Monday, Ambrose University in Calgary said the speech, given in February by Samuel Sey, a conservative activist, blogger and Christian who is Black, “caused severe harm” to some students.
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“As a Christian, what I was saying should not be controversial to them at all, but because they disagree with what the Bible says on racism, it becomes offensive to them,” Sey told the National Post on Monday. “They are essentially, by attacking me, attacking the Bible; I didn’t go there to share my opinion, I was going there to explain what the Bible says