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Canada’s music festivals in 2021: What’s cancelled this summer?
The vaccine rollout across the country had many filled with hope for a return to a pre-pandemic summer music festival scene. On Thursday,...
Shortage of N.B. health-care providers forces student to pay out of pocket to see gynecologist
Mhàiri Agnew has suffered from recurring abdominal pain for more than half of her life. When she first complained as a child, her longtime...
This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us
Back in the 1980s, there was a public service announcement on TV that you may remember — or may have seen on YouTube....
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....
Peter Nygard has phone in jail cell for constant contact with legal team, court documents reveal
Peter Nygard has been given what no other inmate at Manitoba’s Headingley Correctional Centre has access to: a phone in his cell that he...
Mom vows to fight for daughter who died by suicide in hospital psychiatric unit
Hillary Hooper was so desperate to find help for her depression, she took her boyfriend’s gun in the middle of the night, drove...
In a Regina retirement home, boxing and pool keep pandemic loneliness at bay
Like many other seniors, retired teacher Jim Nedelcov found himself trapped in his own apartment, bored and lonely when a lockdown was imposed about...
COVID-era school design takes lessons from Indigenous educators
A Saskatoon-based architect is already applying lessons learnt from the pandemic to the schools he is designing, and said the First Nations clients...
From Prairies to Bollywood: Record deal shows power of TikTok to get diverse artists noticed
Last year, a 25-year-old rapper, producer and musician from Canada checked the YouTube page of one of his remixes. In the comments section, someone...
How 3 Canadians are fighting anti-Black racism in education
Since the renewed Black Lives Matter protests that swept across North America last year, there’s been a new fervour and energy in those working...
RHONJ: The Truth About Jennifer Aydin’s Husband
Dr. Bill Aydin tries to lead by example. With five kids, parenting can undoubtedly be a struggle at times, but Bill opened up...
NDP repays multimillion-dollar campaign debt amid tough fundraising climate during pandemic
The NDP says it has paid off its multimillion-dollar campaign debt — and the federal party did it during Canada’s worst economic recession in...
After a turbulent year, Canada’s energy industry braces for more upheaval in 2021
Turbulent, chaotic, overwhelming — it’s been the kind of year that tests a person’s nerves and their vocabulary. At times, there have been...
With Canada-U.S. border closed, snowbirds pack B.C. campsites to wait out winter
On a small island in British Columbia’s Fraser River is a campsite packed with Canadian snowbirds who found refuge when the border with...
When feeling lonely and unhappy veers into depression: challenges of these pandemic holidays
Despite all the bright cartoon specials and joy-infused music that pervades this time of the year, it is a well-established fact that not everyone...
Why COVID-19 cases are surging across Canada and what needs to be done
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven’t subscribed yet,...
