Category: Special Sections

Police have arrested an undisclosed number of correctional officers in connection to the death of Jonathan Henoche, an Indigenous man housed at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary while awaiting trial on murder charges. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary issued a statement on Monday afternoon confirming several arrests, but would not say who exactly was charged, how many correctional officers were […]

The federal government is developing new regulations to protect passengers in the event of another catastrophic event that results in large-scale flight cancellations.  “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a gap in the air passenger protection framework, which did not foresee the potential for large-scale and lengthy flight cancellations and groundings of air carrier fleets […]

Even before the pandemic, 2020 did not lack for news. COVID-19 upended social and economic life across Canada in mid-March, but the country had already experienced at least two major news events by then — the downing of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 and a weeks-long blockade by Indigenous people that crippled railways. Pandemic coverage focused on how […]

A photo and an urn sit on Christie Zebrasky’s kitchen table. Each time the Winnipeg woman goes to eat, she imagines her daughter’s face and wonders whether she’ll ever know what happened in the moments before 16-year-old Eishia Hudson was shot and killed by police. “I can feel her presence here daily. She is not […]

There’s an old but revealing joke in the news business from when most television news programs were a broadcast of fixed duration. The joke went: “Isn’t it funny that every day, there is always exactly half an hour’s worth of news?” The point was, of course, that of all the millions of things that happened […]

Jarrett Fitzpatrick was driving home to Ashcroft, B.C., late Saturday night when something caught his eye.  In front of the Cariboo Jade and Gift Shoppe in Cache Creek, a truck pulling a flat-deck trailer with an excavator in it was out front.  “I’ve lived here my whole life,” Fitzpatrick said. “I knew that was out of place.” […]

The sombre mood that has gripped the Calgary-based oilpatch for several years is starting to show flickers of hope, with more financially secure companies making moves to grow in 2021. Recent export pipeline news is offsetting the ongoing reality of volatile commodity prices, general investor distaste for the sector and regulatory uncertainty and leading to […]

Canada joined several European nations by halting flights from the U.K. on Sunday in an effort to prevent a new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus from spreading to this country. CBC News obtained a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) issued by Transport Canada stating that all commercial, private and charter flights transporting passengers from the U.K. will be suspended […]

The Ontario government is poised to impose a provincewide lockdown starting Christmas Eve, sources confirm, as the province logs more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the sixth consecutive day. A 28-day lockdown for the southern portions of the province, south of Sudbury, Ont., will begin at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, sources confirm. Meanwhile, the northern […]

A Nova Scotia pilot with a special talent has taken to the skies once again — this time to show support for the families of missing fishermen in the Bay of Fundy. “I wanted to send a message to the communities and especially the families that we’re all in this together,” said Dimitri Neonakis, a pilot from Dartmouth who […]

In his first 42.2-kilometre race, Ben Preisner of Milton, Ont., was the only Canadian men’s runner to run under the Tokyo Olympic standard at the Marathon Project on Sunday in Chander, Ariz. For the second consecutive marathon, Cam Levins of Black Creek, B.C., was on pace late in the race to lower his 2:09:25 Canadian […]

Those who were on the verge of immigrating to Canada before the pandemic struck say the government’s sluggish effort to renew their immigration documents is causing them profound financial and emotional stress. Thousands of approved applicants have been trapped in limbo because border closures delayed their departures, resulting in expired authorizations. Many had already sold […]