Dene Moore

    National Affairs Contributor

  • Canadians are less tolerant of immigration than Americans, new survey says

    A new survey says Canadians are less tolerant of immigration than their American counterparts. Canadians are less tolerant of uncontrolled immigration than Americans. Canada tied with France and trailed only Israel, Belgium, Hungary and Serbia in opposition to the idea of letting in all immigrants who wish to enter.

  • The science behind why Vancouver sucks at dealing with snow

    For many Canadians, shoveling snow has become a winter tradition that rivals hockey and skiing. “Snow on the [west] coast has a whole lot more water in it,” said Norm Parkes, executive director of highways operations for the province of British Columbia. For example, 10 centimetres of the snow in Metro Vancouver contains about one millimetre of water.

  • What would president Hillary Clinton have done?

    Calling it the biggest investment in job creation since the Second World War, the Clinton team promised to make this their top priority out of the gate. The plan would have included a US$300 billion federal investment in infrastructure for roads, bridges, public transit and broadband internet. It would also have invested federal money in boosting manufacturing, research and technology, clean energy and small business.

  • Finding light in the darkness of Quebec's mosque shooting

    People gather to pay respect to the victims of the Quebec City mosque shooting. Now Muslim Canadians can only hope that the murders of six men praying at their Quebec City mosque might be that watershed moment for them — the flicker of hope to be taken from tragedy. Many of us can’t even believe that this has happened,” Amira Ellghawaby, communication director for the National Council of Canadian Muslims, told Yahoo Canada News.

  • PMO's public call-out on Fox News mosque error is new-era diplomacy: experts

    Fox News apologized and corrected a tweet that wrongly said the suspect in the Quebec City mosque shooting was of Moroccan descent, but only after the prime minister’s press secretary, Kate Purchase, very publicly called out the news agency on Twitter. National Post columnist Andrew Coyne said it was not the federal government’s job to correct the misinformation. Not its job, and not a good precedent,” he wrote on Twitter.

  • Security fund deadline extended after mosque shooting

    A makeshift memorial is set up near the Quebec City mosque where six people died as a result of an attack during evening prayers. The federal government has extended the application deadline for funding that helps improve security for communities at risk of hate crimes, in the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque. The Security Infrastructure program provides up to $100,000 for non-profit organizations to strengthen security.

  • ICYMI: 8 things Donald Trump did in Week 1 that affect Canadians

    U.S. President Donald Trump is signing up a storm. It’s been just a week since Donald Trump took office and the American president has already set a furious pace for reform south of the border that will have long-lasting impacts north of the 49th. Canada’s neighbour and largest trading partner is in new territory politically — and without a map it would seem.

  • With help from Ellen DeGeneres, Bell Let's Talk tally hits new high

    Ellen DeGeneres wants to talk about it. It was another record year for Bell Canada’s annual Let’s Talk Day, thanks in part to social media shout-outs from the popular talk show host and other high-profile supporters. Ellen implored her nearly 65 million followers to join in the company’s initiative to break down the stigma around mental health.

  • Bell Let's Talk keeps the conversation going on mental health

    It was personal tragedy that spurred Mary Deacon to sign on with Bell Canada when they came knocking seven years ago, looking for someone to spearhead their idea for an initiative on mental health. Deacon lost two brothers to depression and suicide. “My family has been very deeply and personally touched by mental health issues,” Deacon, chairwoman of the Bell Let’s Talk mental health initiative, told Yahoo Canada News.

  • Assisted-dying could save the government up to $139M, but money shouldn't factor: experts

    A new study sheds light on the potential cost-savings to the health-care system from newly legalized assisted-dying. Assisted death could save the Canadian health-care system between $35 million and $139 million a year, according to a new study sure to renew debate over the country’s controversial assisted death law. The study published in this week’s Canadian Medical Association Journal estimates medically-assisted deaths will one day account for 1-4 per cent of all deaths in Canada.

  • Quebec media calls O'Leary a 'coward' for avoiding French language debate

    Kevin O’Leary speaks during the Conservative Party of Canada convention in Vancouver, Friday, May 27, 2016. Columnist Yves Boisvert, in La Presse, lambasted O’Leary for what he called an obvious ploy to avoid the debate. “To not speak French and seek to be prime minister of Canada is already galling.

  • Is Trudeau's ethics probe really a first? Not exactly.

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Jan. 13 in London, Ont., is facing ethics complaints after a family vacation included a stop on a billionaire’s private island in the Bahamas. Canada’s federal ethics commissioner will look into whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated conflict-of-interest rules during his family vacation on a billionaire’s private tropical island — a move trumpeted as a “first-ever” investigation of a sitting prime minister in some media reports. “It is not the first-ever investigation of a sitting prime minister,” Duff Conacher, co-founder of the group Democracy Watch, told Yahoo Canada News.

  • 'A celebrity from birth': Trudeau vacation latest incident to raise spectre of an out-of-touch elite

    From left to right: Justin, Michel, and Sacha Trudeau attended the swearing in ceremonies of their father Pierre Elliott Trudeau as Prime Minister March 3, 1980 at Government House. When Justin Trudeau became prime minister it was, in many ways, a homecoming. Born in 1971, just a few years into his father’s decade-plus reign as prime minister, Trudeau grew up in the spotlight.

  • Manitoba refugee agency inundated with claimants fleeing U.S.

    In a typical year, a Manitoba front-line refugee organization sees 60 or 70 people ask for their help in seeking refuge in Canada. In just 10 months last year, the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council saw more than 80 new clients come through its doors. Eighty per cent of them crossed the border into Manitoba from the United States.

  • N.S. murder-suicide a painful reminder of plight for ex-soldiers affected by PTSD

    Former Canadian soldier Greg Matters served in Bosnia during the war and also suffered from PTSD. The murder-suicide of a former Canadian soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and his family has brought back painful memories and lingering frustrations for Tracey Matters. Five years ago, her brother Greg, an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD, was shot and killed in a confrontation with RCMP in British Columbia.

  • ACLU singles out Ontario company for helping U.S. police use racial profiling

    A Canadian company’s innovative social media monitoring platform has been identified by the American Civil Liberties Union as an “especially offensive” tool it claims police are using to violate civil rights. London, Ont.-based Media Sonar, is one of three social media monitoring platforms whose access has been cut off by Twitter, which says the company’s surveillance of users is a violation of its policies. In particular, the ACLU takes issue with Media Sonar’s suggestion to Fresno Police to track hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter and #ripmikebrown, referring to the 18-year-old African-American man shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in 2014.

  • Canada's Kandahar ball hockey rink is coming home

    Before they had solid walls for living quarters or a proper cafeteria or coffee shops, the Canadian soldiers deployed to Kandahar built a little reminder of home with a ball hockey rink carved out of the desert.

  • Volunteers the 'backbone' of search and rescue

    NSR volunteers have been searching for two B.C. snowshoers missing in the Cypress Mountain Resort area. For days dozens of volunteers from North Shore Search and Rescue combed the snow-covered terrain. The risk of an avalanche and the lack of any sign of 43-year-old Roy Tin Hou Lee and 64-year-old Chun Sek Lam led rescuers to temporarily suspend the search.

  • Yes. 2016 sucked: poll

    Most Canadians are not sorry to see the back end of 2016, according to a new poll. It was the year of Aleppo, the U.S. election, the refugee crisis, terror attacks around the world and an uncertain economy.

  • Majority of Canadians support cutting ties to British monarchy: poll

    Canadians believe the country should officially cut ties with the monarchy when Queen Elizabeth II’s reign ends, according to a new poll. A majority of Canadians would like Canada to cut ties with the British monarchy when Queen Elizabeth II’s successor takes the throne, according to a new poll. Despite a bump in popularity in this country since the 2011 marriage of Prince William and his recent visits to Canada with his family, 53 per cent of those polled online by Ipsos Reid earlier this month agreed that this country should put an end to the constitutional monarchy when Elizabeth’s reign comes to an end.