2018
Supreme Court of Canada could open door to class-action lawsuit against Uber
Canada’s highest court will issue a ruling this morning in a case involving the ride-sharing service Uber that could have broad implications for...
How new American tariffs on Canadian aluminum could backfire
If the Trump administration buys the argument that Canadian aluminum exports have surged and slaps a 10 per cent tariff back on products...
Parents of Black Sask. teen who took own life call for stronger anti-racism action
Sandra Barker-Schmidt and her husband, Dean Schmidt, are grappling with a difficult question this fall: Should they send their daughter Kidist to the same...
Timing is everything: how Canada got into a pandemic economy — and how it might get out
This is the second article in a series looking at some of the lessons learned from the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic and...
Cannabis was legalized 20 months ago. But it appears to be business as usual for Vancouver’s illegal pot shops
It took the owners of ARCannabis more than 18 months to become a fully licensed marijuana dispensary in Vancouver. Tonny Dinh and Joe...
New StatsCan data reveals hundreds of ‘excess’ deaths in Canada amid pandemic
Hundreds more Canadians died in the early weeks of the pandemic than in the same period in previous years — but not all were directly...
B.C. investigating allegations ER staff played ‘game’ to guess blood-alcohol level of Indigenous patients
British Columbia is investigating allegations health-care staff in emergency rooms were playing a “game” to guess the blood-alcohol level of Indigenous patients, behaviour officials...
China charges 2 Canadians with spying in Huawei-linked case
Chinese prosecutors charged two detained Canadians with spying Friday in an apparent bid to step up pressure on Canada to drop a U.S....
Liberals allowed MP Marwan Tabbara to run in 2019 despite sexual harassment investigation
Member of Parliament Marwan Tabbara — who is expected to appear in court today to face assault and criminal harassment charges — was approved to...
What is Juneteenth and why is everybody talking about it this year?
It is a 155-year-old day of celebration that many non-Black people in the U.S. and around the world only started to hear of recently....
Canadian Museum for Human Rights employees say they were told to censor gay content for certain guests
Current and former employees of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg say its management would sometimes ask staff not to show...
Trudeau government must stand up against Trump’s escalating attacks on International Criminal Court
This column is an opinion by Mark Kersten, a senior consultant at the Wayamo Foundation and a senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs and...
Nursing home told families hospital wouldn’t accept sick residents during pandemic. That wasn’t true
The long-term care home where more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic than anywhere else in Ontario is facing new scrutiny. Families...
Witness video captures violent takedown of elderly Black couple at GTA hospital
An elderly Black couple are alleging that Durham Regional Police and staff at an Ajax, Ont., hospital, assaulted and abused them during a fall...
Video games, esports ‘skyrocket’ in popularity during pandemic
As an avid gamer, 38-year-old Steve Vomacha would often play the video game Fortnite, a multiplayer shooter game, for an hour each day...
Alberta purges judicial vetting committee for former Tory cabinet ministers, political supporters
Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer purged the entire committee that vets potential provincial court judges and recruited new members through a closed process...
