Home involved

involved

348 Articles
WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

It’s been 72 years since Thomas Falls was killed in custody. His family says it’s time for justice

When retired lance-corporal Thomas Falls died in solitary confinement at Montreal’s Bordeaux jail in 1948, 10 days after being severely beaten by police, there...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

B.C. investigating allegations ER staff played ‘game’ to guess blood-alcohol level of Indigenous patients

British Columbia is investigating allegations health-care staff in emergency rooms were playing a “game” to guess the blood-alcohol level of Indigenous patients, behaviour officials...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Liberals allowed MP Marwan Tabbara to run in 2019 despite sexual harassment investigation

Member of Parliament Marwan Tabbara — who is expected to appear in court today to face assault and criminal harassment charges — was approved to...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

The Cyclone chopper crash probe could lead the military to some uncomfortable conclusions

A little more than a decade ago, aviation magazines were buzzing about the inclusion of cutting-edge fly-by-wire technology on the Canadian military’s new...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Erin O’Toole asks to be ‘second choice’ of social conservatives in leaked video

Working to lift himself past rival Peter MacKay, Conservative leadership candidate Erin O’Toole is asking social conservatives to make him their second choice, a...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Mi’kmaq chief says community member fatally shot by New Brunswick RCMP 

The chief of a Mi’kmaq First Nation in New Brunswick says an RCMP officer fatally shot one of his community members Friday evening....

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

NHL hub cities: Which are best equipped to host hockey in a pandemic

When the NHL first announced plans in May to salvage its season, it “only” had the health limitations of a global pandemic to...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Dog that was on the loose after fatal attack in Nova Scotia is now dead

One person is dead in Middle Musquodoboit, N.S., in what police say was an attack by a dog that then went on the...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Escaped prisoner back in police custody in Nova Scotia

Police have recaptured the man who escaped from the Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Pictou County. Kevin Edward Clarke-McNeil, 33, escaped between 8...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Time to ‘defund the police’? Outrage over brutality, racism in U.S. casts new light on Toronto’s police budget

Would Regis Korchinski-Paquet still be alive if a mental health nurse had turned up when her family called 911, instead of just police officers? What...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Doctor linked to Campbellton COVID-19 cluster says he made ‘an error in judgment’

The doctor at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Campbellton, N.B., area says he’s not sure whether he picked up the...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Family says ‘back and forth’ between N.S., Ottawa over shooting probe ‘unreal’

A Nova Scotia family has made a passionate appeal for the federal and Nova Scotia governments to end the “back and forth” over...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Temporary foreign worker dies due to COVID-19 as disease hits southwestern Ontario farms hard

A temporary foreign worker from Mexico who came to Canada to work on a farm in Ontario died on Saturday due to COVID-19,...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Thousands rally in Toronto against anti-black, anti-Indigenous racism

Thousands of people took part in a rally on downtown Toronto streets on Saturday in protest of what organizers described as anti-black and anti-Indigenous...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Why the PM’s daily briefings have worked — and why we might see fewer of them soon

The COVID-19 pandemic that has upended our lives has no single iconic image or moment that will be seared into our collective memories. But...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Thousands of jobs wiped out as COVID-19 shuts down in-person conferences, industry events

It’s no surprise that an industry dedicated to bringing large groups of people together in enclosed spaces would be crippled by the global...