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The emotional toll of the COVID-19 battle inside a Quebec ICU
A mechanical whir fills the room as a sling slowly lifts a patient out of her hospital bed. “Wow, it’s fun to see...
Some Humboldt Broncos families angry over lawyer’s request to delay one lawsuit until another is ready
A battle between lawsuits related to the Humboldt Broncos bus crash is to be heard in a Regina courtroom this week. Eleven lawsuits...
Canada’s pipeline regulator says it’s taking a stand against systemic racism
Rueben George says he’s not at all surprised that, in an era of racial reckoning, Canada’s top pipeline regulator is signalling it wants to...
Golden Globe nominations: Films focused on people of colour conspicuously absent from top race
Every year the cycle begins again. The Golden Globes are announced and then industry works itself into a fine froth over the predictable and...
Genealogy buff delighted to find he helped solve Jessop cold case — but also learns he’s killer’s cousin
Ken, a retired software developer from Toronto, is the consummate genealogy buff. He wrote a book about his maternal family, is working on...
‘I want him to see the pain’: Virtual trial for accused Toronto van attacker means no day in court for victims
The trial of Alek Minassian, the man accused of committing one of Canada’s worst instances of mass violence when he drove a van into...
Trailer hitch assault on First Nations woman in Thunder Bay not only factor in her death, defence argues
The man accused of killing a First Nations woman by throwing a trailer hitch at her from a passing car told his friends...
Trial begins for Thunder Bay man accused in trailer-hitch death of First Nations woman
More than three years after Barbara Kentner’s death, her sisters are hoping for justice in a case that hundreds of First Nations chiefs from across...
Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Thursday
The latest: French doctors expressed relief but business owners were in despair as France prepared Thursday to shut down again for a month...
Steroids, inhalers and ventilators: What Quebec doctors are learning about COVID-19
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic’s first wave, Dr. Joseph Dahine and his colleagues could spend over an hour huddled around the...
Montreal man unable to rescue wife, despite federal program that helps Beirut blast survivors come to Canada
Bayan Assi, 29, a Canadian citizen, has been trying to bring his Lebanese wife to Canada ever since they married in January. But...
After 191 years, historic sabre returned to family, thanks in part to a boy’s curiosity
A sabre that saw action in the American Revolution and may have been used as a murder weapon in Nova Scotia has found its way...
Witness to fatal torrent released from B.C. dam recounts moment ‘all hell broke loose’
Mike Hanafin was enjoying lunch on a viewing platform overlooking the Capilano River on Thursday when suddenly the peaceful afternoon was punctured by the...
Ottawa argues youth-led climate change lawsuit too broad to be tried in court
Federal lawyers argue that a lawsuit alleging the Canadian government has violated the charter rights of 15 youth is far too broad to...
‘We can’t afford to put ourselves out there’: Some Nova Scotians not ready for closer contact
While Nova Scotia has begun easing restrictions around the COVID-19 pandemic, 63-year-old Deborah Demeter says she and her husband still don’t feel safe...
What is Juneteenth and why is everybody talking about it this year?
It is a 155-year-old day of celebration that many non-Black people in the U.S. and around the world only started to hear of recently....
