British Columbia
Controversial Calgary mayoral candidate’s latest criminal trial to begin
A Calgary mayoral candidate — recently described as “dangerous and out-of-control” by a judge — will go to trial Monday, accused of causing a disturbance. Kevin J. Johnston...
Canada orders rail safety measures to reduce risk of wildfires
Canada on Sunday ordered rail transport restrictions for areas where there is a high wildfire risk in both British Columbia and nationally after a blaze...
Memorial University to double tuition to $6K a year, ending 22-year freeze
Memorial University president Vianne Timmons announced an unprecedented tuition hike on Friday for future students of Newfoundland and Labrador’s only university. (Patrick Butler/Radio-Canada)...
COVID-19 has delayed criminal trials across Canada. Is the justice system doing enough to avoid it?
It was an emergency decision announced late on a Friday — three days before a murder trial was set to begin. A judge postponed...
Alberta health minister and family swarmed by COVID protesters on Canada Day
Supporters of Calgary mayoral candidate Kevin J. Johnston, incarcerated on charges of violating public health orders and threatening Alberta Health Services staff, cornered the family...
After a decades-long fight, the last piece of this B.C. residential school is coming down
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. Forty-six years to the day after the Lower Post residential school in northern...
On this Canada Day, Canadians face calls for change — and economic historians have been trying to adjust
This week’s deadly heat wave, with its new record temperatures, is just one example of how the country’s economy seems to be embroiled in change this Canada...
Why Canada is divided over reopening despite controlling COVID-19
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you...
Indigenous leaders secure papal audience to set stage for residential school apology
National Indigenous leaders will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in December to set the stage for a formal papal apology in...
Why retrieving former residential school records has proved so difficult
The discovery of potentially hundreds of unmarked graves near former residential schools in B.C. and Saskatchewan has prompted calls for the Catholic Church, which...
How to watch Canada Day 2021 on CBC
Sixteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is facing its second Canada Day under public health restrictions amid renewed conversation about Indigenous reconciliation....
‘Ashamed of my faith’: Some Catholics struggle after discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia has...
Western Canada heat wave expected to break daily, all-time temperature records
A heat wave stretching across Western Canada, from B.C. into southern Saskatchewan and up through the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, is set to break...
Calls to ‘Cancel Canada Day’ draw mixed reaction
Findings at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that indicate the remains of an estimated 215 children could be buried...
Scientists, Homalco First Nation team up to probe massive B.C. landslide — and its impact on salmon
When the side of a B.C. mountain gave way on Nov. 28, 2020, crashing into a glacier fed lake and creating a 100-metre high...
The news from Kamloops shook this country. Will it change anything?
“Canadians are waking up,” Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde told Rosemary Barton Live this weekend. “Governments are waking up.” That awakening...
