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To relief of the hundreds of thousands of travelers who are facing challenges in travelling from India to Canada, may soon hear good news to cheer about. As per the sources, Canadian government is likely to relax travel restrictions for travelers from India. Under relaxed guidelines, pre-departure RT-PCR testing of air passengers from India may be permitted at several laboratories ...

In February 2007, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations filed a case under Canadian Human Rights Act 2007 claiming that the Canadian government discriminated by underfunding the First Nations Children. On 26 January 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal affirmed the complaint and ordered the Canadian Government to cease its ...

As per recent post by Candian High Commission New Delhi, In-person consular appointments at Canadian missions in New Delhi, Chandigarh and Mumbai have been suspended. This suspension is looked as a preventive measure towards the health and safety of all due to increasing number of Covid cases in the country. The missions continue to provide services by mail. For urgent ...

The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced the following diplomatic appointments to India. Cameron MacKay becomes High Commissioner in the Republic of India. Mr. MacKay is currently Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste. He will replace Nadir Patel as High Commissioner to India. Cameron Mackay joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995, and has served ...

Canada Elections 2021 After many weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister has called a federal election. The formal request came this morning at Rideau Hall when Trudeau asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and hold a 36-day election campaign with Election Day set for September 20th. The opposition party leaders had called for the Prime Minister to hold off on an election ...

Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth and a leading figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.The Duke of Edinburgh, as he was officially known, had been by his wife’s side throughout her 69-year reign, the longest in British history, during which time he earned a reputation for a ...

In an action attributed to the strict restrictions implemented by Ottawa, Montreal-based airline Air Transat is suspending all flights on routes from Toronto and few flights from Montreal for the rest of the winter travel season. Air Transat commenced the suspension of flights on Thursday (Jan 28) and will remain into force until April 30, 2021, according to Ms. Debbie ...

GM Canada, formally known as General Motors of Canada Company, has announced that the company has signed a tentative deal with labor union Unifor to make an investment of about CA$ 1 billion to manufacture commercial electric vans at its CAMI Assembly Plant located in Ingersoll, Ontario. As part of the tentative deal, which still needs to be ratified by ...

Kathleen Joan Heddle passed away, after battling long with cancer, at the age of 55 on Monday (Jan 14) at her home in Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned three Olympic gold medals in the sport of rowing for Canada in the 1990s and inspired a generation of athletes. Kathleen was struggling with breast cancer and lymph node cancer for many ...

On Wednesday (Jan 7), Canadian low cost carrier WestJet has disclosed that it intended to bring the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft back into the passenger service in next two weeks. The decision of the carrier will depend on the Transport Canada and Canadian Aviation Agency, which will approve the return to passenger service as scheduled. After 20 months of grounding, ...