Canada

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed this year’s Canadian Screen Awards winners in a digital series of pre-recorded online videos this week. The videos were being live-streamed on the academy’s website as well as on its Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels. The annual in-person Canadian Screen Awards galas celebrating homegrown film, TV and digital media earlier scheduled to ...

Democracy is at your fingertips in this richly illustrated Virtual Experience of the Parliament. Scroll through Parliament and watch as the building emerges around you, its walls filled with voices from Canada’s past. It is accessible from any mobile or desktop device for you to see the Senate, the House of Commons, and the Library of Parliament come to life ...

The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights is planning to challenge the constitutionality and logic behind the Liberal government’s recent ban of many assault-style guns.  The coalition says such rifles have been used by shooters for decades for hunting and sporting purposes. The coalition is seeking the court to strike down new regulations as unlawful and beyond the scope of the ...

Three-time World and Paralympic gold medalist Sonja Gaudet from Vernon, B.C. made it into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in the Class of 2020-21. After an unfortunate equestrian accident that left her paralyzed from the chest down, Gaudet – at age 31 and with support from her husband, two young kids aged six and three at the time of her ...

Meng Wanzhou lost the first round in her bid to avoid extradition to the United States on Wednesday as the B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled the extradition case against her would continue, bringing Meng a step closer to facing fraud charges in the US. The 48-year-old Meng is the oldest daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and serves as the ...

In a major relief to the international students who were planning to come to Quebec for their studies in the Fall 2020 or Winter of 2021 sessions, Quebec’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEES) allowed them to begin their studies online while they are forced to stay in their country of origin because of coronavirus-related travel restrictions in the ...

Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Gulabo Sitabo is all set to be digitally released worldwide on Amazon Prime. Earlier the film was to be released in theatres in April 2020 but due to the Coronavirus pandemic producers decided to withhold its release. To keep the show going, the team has finally decided for its Digital release on June 12th, ...

Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) for small businesses provides relief for small businesses experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. It offers unsecured, forgivable loans to eligible commercial property owners to reduce the rent owed by their impacted small business tenants and to meet operating expenses on commercial properties. With the CECRA, property owners will reduce rent by at least ...

Dismissing the demand by customers whose flights were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic to give any cash refunds, Air Canada has further modified its travel credit policy. Canada’s largest domestic carrier on Friday said customers can either roll the flight’s value and additional 65 per cent into air miles points or receive a travel voucher with no expiry date. ...

As a major relief to international students applying for their Study Permits and Post-Graduation Work Permits (PGWP), Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will be accepting even incomplete applications. Due to Coronovirus pandemic, many applications centers are either close or are operating with very limited resources and hence some students are unable to complete three essentials components of their application ...