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SHAMATTAWA, Man. – Search groups continue to look for a six-year-old boy who was last seen Wednesday on a remote First Nation in northeastern Manitoba.

Police say Johnson Redhead was at school on Shamattawa First Nation that morning but did not make it to class after attending a breakfast program.

RCMP say officers and community members have been combing through wooded areas, trails, roads and sheds looking for the boy.

They have been searching on foot and with all-terrain four-wheelers and other vehicles.

The Canadian Rangers are also aiding in the search.

RCMP say officers also obtained video footage from the school in an attempt to determine which direction they boy may have left the school or the circumstances around him leaving the property.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 20, 2024.

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TORONTO – Experts are raising questions about the need for the federal government’s planned cap on international graduate students, and suggesting it may prompt some top talent to look elsewhere.

Students attending master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral courses were previously exempt from the overall cap on international students that Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced in January but they are now included in a further reduction of student visas he announced this week.

Miller’s office says those students are now being included so schools won’t try to avoid the cap by creating “fake programs,” and 12 per cent of permits issued will be reserved for graduate students in line with their historical share of the student population.

Internal estimates shared by U15 Canada, an association of 15 public research universities, suggest current levels of graduate students are already below the new cap — and they aren’t part of the ballooning population of temporary residents Ottawa is trying to address.

CEO Chad Gaffield says if the best and brightest get the impression that Canada is no longer welcoming, there could be major collateral damage for Canadian schools, and for research and innovation writ large.

Immigration lawyer Barbara Jo Caruso says the government needs to be seen to be doing something, but the caps create major uncertainty and could have an impact on Canada’s brand.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 20, 2024.

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OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is convening female foreign ministers from a dozen countries to talk about women’s participation in governance and issues like online harassment.

Joly is co-hosting a two-day meeting in Toronto with her Jamaican counterpart, Kamina Johnson Smith, and foreign ministers from countries ranging from Ghana and Indonesia to Nepal and Romania.

The gathering follows a 2018 meeting in Montreal, as well as informal discussions on the sidelines of various global summits.

Joly’s office says the meetings are aimed at sharing ideas on how countries can promote more gender equity in public life, and how to tackle issues that prevent women from seeking office.

Those issues include misinformation as well as “online violence” such as the harassment of women in politics.

Joly is set to speak with reporters this afternoon as the meeting comes to a close.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 20, 2024.

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