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By C. Nadine Wathen Guest Writer A woman or girl is killed in Canada every 2.5 days. In a recent interview with Maclean’s magazine, Maryam Monsef, Canada’s minister for women and gender equality, called the problem of gender-based violence a “four-alarm fire.” ...

By Linda Straker News Correspondent ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – The Grenada government confirmed, yesterday, that an educational facility, set up to assist young women who have dropped out of school as a result of becoming pregnant, ...

  By Jessica Cooke and Sheri Madigan Guest Writers “How was your day at school?” “Fine.” Does this sound familiar? This is the dreaded response to a well-intentioned question that parents might ask. The robot-sounding response is what parents hear ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – Residents in the Caribbean were keeping an eye on tropical storm, Gabrielle, which strengthened over the open Atlantic Ocean, today, even as Bahamians are coming to terms with the devastation and death, caused ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – A police constable has been sentenced to a total of 62 years in jail, after he was found guilty of abducting and raping a nurse at gunpoint, in December, last year. But Constable ...

  By Lauren Bialystok Guest Writer Ontario has been embroiled in controversy over sex education since 2015, when updates to the province’s health and physical education curriculum drew vocal opposition from a minority of parents. As is typical for such ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – The St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) confirmed, today, that the island had experienced a total shutdown, lasting nearly three hours. In a statement, LUCELEC said that the outage had been caused ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – Police say the body of the 45-year-old husband of a bank employee, who was murdered in front of her son, on Monday, had been found hanging from a tree, ...

By Jen Gilbert Guest Writer In time for back-to-school 2019, the Ontario government released a revised health and physical education curriculum. Commentators have noted that despite Premier Doug Ford having stressed the need for an overhaul, the new curriculum is ...