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Student project spurs Nova Scotia to repay fine levied against Viola Desmond
An Ontario teenager is the driving force behind a symbolic repayment to civil rights activist Viola Desmond, a Black Nova Scotian who challenged the province’s...
The retail sector has a racial bias problem — and this Sephora survey suggests it’s costing it customers
A study commissioned by beauty giant Sephora on racial bias in the U.S. retail sector is having reverberations in Canada — at Sephora’s Canadian...
The Real Meaning Behind H.E.R.’s ‘Better Than I Imagine’
So numerous tunes out there have to do with heartbreak. However, that wasn’t the objective at all behind pianist Robert Glasper’s single “Better...
B.C. ordered to pay $964K to former correctional officer targeted for being Black
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the province to pay compensation of almost a million dollars to a former corrections officer who...
‘I followed my conviction’: NFL’s Duvernay-Tardif on joining the COVID-19 front line
A Canadian NFL player who traded his jersey for scrubs to fight on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic says he felt...
Doctors failed mentally ill Ontario man who killed his mother day after seeing psychiatrist, says family
Family members of an Ontario man diagnosed with schizophrenia say his doctors didn’t do “their due diligence” when they failed to admit him to...
1 year after Canada’s first coronavirus case, the COVID-19 pandemic rages on
Monday marks one year since the first case of the virus that causes COVID-19 was confirmed in Canada, in a patient who came...
Appalling incidents like the Keyon Harrold Jr. case happen to Black kids here too
This column is an opinion by Phillip Dwight Morgan, a Toronto-based freelance writer of Jamaican heritage. He is a director of the Conn Smythe...
The Truth About Kourtney Kardashian And Travis Barker
Aside from being buddies, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are next-door neighbors in their Calabasas neighborhood, according to People. Barker has actually made...
Anti-government extremists promote armed protests in U.S. using website hosted in Montreal
An anti-government website is using cloud servers located in Montreal to help organize a series of armed protests across the United States this...
Canadian internet sleuths, anti-hate group helping to identify Capitol rioters
As more and more cellphone videos surface of the storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., last week, Canadians are leading some of...
Most new Order of Canada appointees are white men, despite diversity-boosting efforts
Most of the new appointees to the Order of Canada in 2020 were white men, despite some progress made in boosting the diversity of...
How a ‘hotshot whiz-kid’ ensnared a Sask. company in a $97.5M deal riddled with red flags
Input Capital, a publicly traded company based in Regina, says it is investigating after its $97.5-million proposed sale to smooth-talking American businessman Eric...
After the gold rush: Why Neil Young and other aging rockers are cashing in on song publishing
In Neil Young’s 1979 song Hey Hey, My My the Canadian musician sang that rock could never die, adding: “Out of the blue...
Black activists say double standard at play in response to pro-Trump rioters
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Canada said she believes police would have responded more aggressively if protesters storming the U.S. Capitol had...
The dark side: 2020 was a boom year for horror on-screen — and that’s no accident
The meaning behind Netflix’s The Platform is hard to miss: “an accidentally timely political allegory,” the New York Times called it, “a brutal...
