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He spent two years working alongside Canadian soldiers in Kandahar as an interpreter and a food-supply contractor.Weeks before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, the 34-year-old man had already applied to Ottawa’s special programs to resettle former Afghan interpreters and locally engaged staff to Canada. The Department of ...

Pakistani entrepreneur Nazakat Nawaz had the money, so the process of moving to Quebec as an investor to start a new life in Canada seemed straightforward.The province wanted net assets of $1.2 million, two years of management experience and a five-year, interest-free investment of $800,000 entrusted with the province. ...

‘We’re spending more for less’: Canadian food bills are surging. These three families told us how they cope | The Star (","heading":"","fullWindow":false,"fullBleed":false,"showFullBleedOnMobile":false,"headColor":"","type":"html5mobile","textColor":"","mobileImageUrl":"","bgColor":"","imageUrl":"","registeredOnly":false,"linkUrl":"","aodaTitle":"Less for more","internalScroll":false,"displayStyle":"small-up"},{"text":"The recent surge in food costs has been 19 months in the making, fuelled by a combination of pandemic-era restrictions, supply chain problems, worker shortages and ...

Sean Fraser says he knew what he was getting into when he was tapped to be Canada’s next immigration minister.“Things are at such a strained point as a result of COVID-19 that I see an opportunity to make an extraordinary difference coming from this particular starting point,” the Nova ...

What remained after everything, all the lawsuits and the tumbling stock and the government cash, were the bracelets, black and never quite beeping like they should, one last little mystery, still unsolved, right in the heart of it all.It was mid-February 2021, in the brief lull between COVID waves, ...

For 47 days, Hussain watched from behind the curtains of his family’s tiny suite as Taliban soldiers passed by their window.The former Afghan interpreter for the Canadian Forces, his wife and their five children, all under the age of 10, had hunkered down in lodgings arranged by Canadian war ...

The dead ship left for the scrapyards of Turkey in gale-force winds.A tugboat named Hellas dragged the MV Miner, a retired Great Lakes freighter, from the Port of Montreal into the rough seas off eastern Canada. But the tow line broke, turning the dead vessel into a ghost ship.Untethered, ...

Premier Doug Ford is upping his efforts to blame the relative trickle of travel over the border for the ongoing spread of COVID-19 in the province as he seeks to rally public opinion on the need for tighter border restrictions.And a Facebook ad sponsored by one of Ford’s cabinet ...

The frustration is palpable in Joan’s voice, as over the phone from Nova Scotia she recounts how her husband never received the results of his at-home COVID-19 test from Switch Health after he returned to Canada on a recent flight from a country in Africa.And she is incredulous that ...