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Family of Kelowna crane collapse victims stuck in quarantine despite travel exemption
Flooded with grief, Norbert Stemmer rushed to Canada to support his family after finding out his two nephews had died in the crane...
Millions meant for residential school survivors spent on Catholic Church lawyers, administration: documents
The Roman Catholic Church spent millions of dollars that were supposed to go to residential school survivors on lawyers, administration, a private fundraising...
Extreme drought in southern B.C. taking devastating toll on life in water and on land
What was once a steady stream of cool, clear water had become a patch of shallow, muddy puddles. Inside these remaining pools not...
Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say
A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say. Michael Fromm, a...
Ontario’s hair school standards still ignore Black hair 4 years after work began to include it
Deanne Simms remembers walking into a salon as a teen and being met by a woman who was frantically running toward her from...
Television reboots are an easy sell — but are they crowding out BIPOC voices?
It seems like almost every day a new television reboot is announced, quelling audience desires for nostalgic content. Sex and the City, Frasier and...
Canada’s building codes don’t focus on tornadoes — even though we see 2nd most in the world
Fran Ferguson said she often doesn’t take severe weather warnings very seriously, but something — maybe a feeling or the way the wind...
Stock markets fall, oil prices plummet as COVID-19 fears rise again
The Toronto Stock Exchange had its worst day in months on Monday as rising COVID-19 infections around the world gave investors a sobering...
Ottawa still mulling whether officials will attend Olympics, days before it starts
With five days to go before the Olympics Games kick off, the Canadian government still isn’t saying whether a federal delegation is heading...
Sask. RCMP pilot embeds psychiatric nurses in 911 centre to handle mental health calls
Psychiatric nurses embedded inside the RCMP’s operational command centre in Regina are taking 911 calls from people in mental distress and coaching front-line officers...
How summer school, tutoring are helping students catch up from pandemic-disrupted classes
While taking a summer breather is on the schedule for many students, others are tapping tutors or taking summer school to help bridge gaps that have...
Lawyer files misconduct complaint after private investigator hired to follow Manitoba chief justice
A human rights lawyer is filing a professional misconduct complaint against the lawyers representing seven churches fighting public health orders after one admitted to hiring...
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...
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...
Biologist estimates helium balloons are ending up in Great Lakes by the hundreds of thousands
The plastic balloons we use to mark some of the biggest milestones in our lives — births, deaths, graduations, homecomings, engagements, gender reveal parties — are ending up in...
