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Man charged with first-degree murder for death of Toronto officer struck by vehicle
Toronto police have charged a 31-year-old man with first-degree murder for the death of Const. Jeffrey Northrup early on Friday. Umar Zameer appeared in court...
Regina woman who lost mother and grandmother to COVID-19 says return to normal isn’t possible
Laina Tuckanow, 21, stands beside two dirt-covered graves in Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery in Regina. They’re not marked with headstones or covered in grass yet....
Sask. commits $2M for searches of residential school sites for unmarked graves
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. The Saskatchewan government has committed $2 million to support searches of former residential school...
Speakers denounce anti-Muslim hate at vigil for family killed in attack
Fourteen-year-old Hateem Amin was determined to attend the outdoor vigil in London, Ont., to honour her 15-year old friend Yumna Afzaal and three family members who were run down and...
Statue of Egerton Ryerson ‘will not be restored or replaced’ after it was toppled at Toronto rally
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. The statue of Egerton Ryerson that stood outside the university that bears his...
Survivors, faith leaders, call on Catholic Church to take responsibility for residential schools
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. Taking in the sight of hundreds of shoes on the steps of the...
Nunavut dog reunites with family after epic journey across ice and tundra
Donna Adams wouldn’t have guessed that her dog Pepper had it in her. But the 10-year-old German shepherd — typically found lolling about outside...
‘A very charged situation’: Talking to our loved ones about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Andrew Magnus had a handful of reasons why he didn’t plan on getting vaccinated for COVID-19. The 55-year-old Calgarian felt the provincial government’s...
Nearly 30 years later, woman finds dying husband’s nurse via Facebook to give proper thanks
In February, a Thunder Bay woman put up a Facebook post in hopes of tracking down a brief, yet impactful connection from her past....
These South Asians in Toronto are helping with India’s COVID-19 crisis — while managing their grief from afar
As India grapples with a deadly surge in COVID-19 cases, many South Asians in the Toronto area are rallying together to help. “Our heart...
Black activists across the Prairies are calling for defunding of police. Is anyone in power listening?
This story is part of the Black on the Prairies project, a collection of articles, personal essays, images and more, exploring the past,...
2 Montrealers among dozens killed in Israel stampede
Two Montrealers were among those killed in a stampede during a religious festival in northern Israel, prompting an outpouring of grief from the local...
Woman whose frozen body found after release from jail died of overdose, Sask. coroner says
Kimberly Squirrel, a mother of six from the Yellow Quill First Nation whose frozen body was found in Saskatoon in January, was a victim...
Red Cross distributes nearly $6.2M to families after N.S. mass shooting
Karen Dean knew her friend Gina wouldn’t want her to be frozen in grief. In the days after Dean learned Gina Goulet and...
‘It would give us closure’: Family struggles to get body of Windsor university student to India amid pandemic
As grief mounts during the pandemic, for those separated by geography, the struggle to bring home loved ones who have passed away abroad...
Westboro bus crash trial is time for long-awaited answers, victims’ families say
In the two years since her mother Judy Booth died in an OC Transpo bus crash, Karen Benvie has been looking for answers....
