‘Taxpayers will be on the hook’: Fur traders’ group says Canada Goose decision won’t stop culling
A decision by Canada Goose to no longer use coyote fur trim on its signature parkas by end of 2022 could cost taxpayers, according to a group representing Ontario trappers, saying the animals will still need to be culled to control the population. “These animals are going to be trapped and managed whether they’re used on […]
Boy who spent two years in isolation over uncontrollable behaviour goes home to his mother
A boy who was 11 when child protection workers set him up in a government-owned residence where he had no access to education or friends and was often physically restrained by his caregivers has been returned to his mother. The boy had been in the care of the minister of social development since March 27, […]
‘Like a playbook’: Former track star speaks of years of grooming by coach
Mary Jane Richards closes her eyes and remembers what it was like to run. “I just felt like I was flying,” she says. In the 1990s, for three straight years, Richards was an Ontario and Canadian cross-country champion. She was the first to cross the finish line in almost every big race she entered. She […]
‘Heat dome’ settles in across Western Canada, bringing sweltering temperatures
Daily and all-time temperature records are expected to be broken over the coming days as a “heat dome” settles in over Western Canada, from British Columbia into Saskatchewan and up into the Northwest Territories and Yukon. Last week, CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe said that heat dome is what is expected to break records. “Sinking air will push down […]
3 more hurt in coyote attacks in northwest Calgary, days after aggressive coyote killed nearby
Days after an aggressive coyote was put down for a series of attacks on humans, three more people have been hurt in a nearby Calgary neighbourhood. Pria Overy was celebrating high school graduation in a Tuscany park on Saturday around 7 p.m., when an animal she initially assumed was a dog approached her group of friends. […]
International students coming to Canada navigate numerous barriers as they look to begin fall classes
A prospective student from Pakistan who will be enrolling at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University says she’s “freaking out step-by-step” as she navigates hurdles to get her education, made far more difficult by COVID-19. Zohra Shahabuddin said she spent sleepless nights worrying about putting together her documents for her student visa application to Canada. Her visa […]
‘We’re still here’: Dene mark 100 years of the first Treaty 11 signing in Fort Providence, N.W.T.
Since time immemorial, Dene would dance and sing on the banks of the Mackenzie River near what is now Fort Providence, N.W.T. Dozens made the point to carry on these traditions on Sunday, on land they unknowingly surrendered 100 years before. On June 24, 1921, a treaty party came to the region with the intention of […]
Maritime startup invents Lego-style bricks made from recycled plastic
A Sunday drive through Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley offers bucolic views of neat rows of grape vines and apple trees, but also rows and rows of black plastic that cover soil and farmers’ caterpillar tunnels filled with early tomatoes and peppers. A startup in Hampstead, N.B., plans to gather up all that plastic at the end of […]
Ontario woman leaves office life behind to help save 115-year-old family farm
When Jenn Schooley works in the orchard of her family farm, surrounded by dwarf fruit trees and bright, fragrant fields of lavender — her mother’s “field of dreams” — she knows it’s where she belongs. “You feel your generational roots when you’re out in the middle of the orchard working land that your great-grandfather worked,” she said. “There’s just something that […]
Survivors, community honour 751 unmarked graves at Sask. residential school site with vigil
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Seven-hundred and fifty-one lights spanned the entirety of the burial site on the Cowessess First Nation in southeast Saskatchewan last night where a large group of people, many wearing orange, gathered in honour of the remains housed in 751 unmarked graves in the community. An elder in the community who […]
Elderly couple safe after ‘miraculous’ rescue from Manitoba backcountry
An elderly Morris, Man., couple who spent the night in the dense bush after their car got stuck on a washed-out section of back road are back at home and doing well. And one of the people who helped track them down after seeing an RCMP missing-persons bulletin about their disappearance describes finding them as nothing short […]
2 more Catholic churches burned down in B.C.’s Interior
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Two more Catholic churches on reserves in British Columbia’s southern Interior burned down Saturday morning. Lower Similkameen Indian Band Chief Keith Crow says he received a call at about 4 a.m. PT that the Chopaka church was on fire. By time he arrived about 30 minutes later, it had burned […]