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Pump prices expected to continue climb as oilpatch eyes better days ahead

With oil prices recently returning to some of their highest levels in years, experts say drivers should prepare to pay even more at the...

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The high, human cost of global shipping in the pandemic: Sailors stuck at sea for months

For 11 months, Rolly Pague was stranded at sea, stuck on a giant shipping vessel feeding insatiable global demand sparked by the pandemic....

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Scooter Braun’s Net Worth Is Higher Than You Think

Although the career of Scooter Braun traces back to his time in college organizing celebrity parties for A-listers like Britney Spears and Eminem,...

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Acquitted of terrorism but still considered a threat, this man’s status in Canada hangs in limbo

Since his release from immigration detention almost two years ago, Othman (Adam) Hamdan has been living in limbo. The Canada Border Services Agency...

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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...

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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...

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Birchbark canoe project connects generations of Mi’kmaq in Kejimkujik National Park

Rose Meuse never got to know her grandfather, but she pictures him steering a birchbark canoe through the waterways of Nova Scotia’s Kejimkujik National...

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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...

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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...

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Woman who saw police kill her ex-boyfriend says ‘he didn’t get the help that he needed’

Amanda Antle and Roy Freake with their child, Jack. Freake was shot to death by police at Antle’s house in Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L.,...

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Parks, lawns and baseball diamonds: How Habs fans are watching the Stanley Cup final

Despite pandemic restrictions and a cap on the number of people allowed at Montreal’s Bell Centre, Habs fans are finding creative ways to gather to...

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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...

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‘We’ve got to do better’: Toronto readies to launch non-police crisis response pilot

It’s been just over a year since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, with the world erupting into protest...

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Canada’s acting top soldier gives head of navy chance at redemption after golf controversy

After two weeks of deliberations, Canada’s acting top soldier, Lt.-Gen. Wayne Eyre, has decided Vice-Admiral Craig Baines will continue to serve as the head...

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‘Where is their soul?’: Inside the failed push to make Catholic Church pay for its residential school abuses

Residential school survivor Rick Daniels and his wife, Judy Greyeyes, live in a small apartment just a few kilometres from Saskatoon’s towering $28.5-million Holy...

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Heat dome moves toward Alberta after shattering temperature records in B.C.

Extreme heat warnings remain in place over much of Western Canada as a historic heat wave that has shattered more than 40 all-time...