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An ‘uncommon brilliance’: Acclaimed Calgary playwright Sharon Pollock dies at 85
At one point, acclaimed Calgary playwright Sharon Pollock’s business cards prominently featured the image of a dragon. What did that symbolize? If you...
As Sask. faces growing COVID-19 cases, Indigenous communities have charted a different path
As cases of COVID-19 have climbed in Saskatchewan in 2021, the case counts among the province’s Indigenous communities have dramatically decreased. Data obtained...
B.C. murder cases in jeopardy as accused killer walks free, police slammed for ignoring law
A B.C. man accused of murdering a stranger in a 2011 road-rage incident has been acquitted after a B.C. Supreme Court judge excluded...
Parents juggle Wi-Fi woes, time crunches and constant change this school year
Across Canada, COVID-19 has changed what school looks like for students this year, with the pandemic continuing to disrupt learning and upend classrooms...
‘More people are catching on’: Travellers using U.S.-Canada land border to avoid quarantine hotels
Greg Peacock walked across the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ont., and back into Canada with his three puppies in hand, pausing to...
Doug Ford’s popularity plummets as pandemic takes its toll
If Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defeated in next year’s provincial election, he might look back at this past week as the beginning...
With one budget, Freeland overturned 3 decades of political orthodoxy
Nearly seven years ago, a rookie politician surveyed the political landscape across the democratic world and saw the outlines of a new era....
Prince George, B.C., was once a city of affordable homes. Now, it’s home to bidding wars
A B.C. city that once sold ads on Vancouver’s SkyTrain promising affordable home ownership is now dealing with bidding wars and same-day sales —...
As ICUs fill up, doctors confront grim choice of who gets life-saving care
Hospitals are shifting critically ill patients around, looking for any empty bed. Nurses and doctors are putting in exhaustion-defying amounts of overtime. Some...
Canada’s new home construction hits record high in March
Canadian housing starts rose 21.6 per cent in March compared with the previous month, easily beating expectations and hitting a new record, data from...
Here — once again — is why B.C. isn’t planning on increasing restrictions soon
Weeks into B.C.’s third wave, with cases still around 1,000 a day and hospitalizations still increasing to new heights every day, there are...
Couple reunited after years of being separated in long-term care
A Saskatchewan couple that was separated in long-term care has been reunited thanks to their daughter. Theresa and James Kovach were forced to...
Home to Home Run for charity: Sault man logging marathon a day from B.C. to Ontario
Rick Fall ran a marathon in British Columbia on Monday. The 61-year-old finished another 42 kilometres on Tuesday and Wednesday, and aims to keep that pace for another 100...
Here’s how Labrador Inuit are leading the way by adapting to the curveballs of climate change
The social enterprise SmartICE has been internationally recognized for its ability to combine traditional knowledge with technology in order to help people adapt...
Lessons from Quebec City’s gym outbreak, one of Canada’s largest COVID-19 superspreading events
We still don’t know exactly how it started — a runner on a treadmill, or perhaps someone lifting weights — but an outbreak...
‘An ugly stain for years to come’: Laurentian University interests reeling from staff, program cuts
Monday was one of the worst days on record for the Laurentian University community, with the news roughly 100 professors lost their jobs...
