News/World
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....
Heartbreak on the 49th parallel: Lives interrupted by the Canada-U.S. border closure
It’s been a dismal few days for Canada-U.S. relations. Specifically, for people in relationships with someone on the other side of the border, dealing...
‘We don’t want to be the next cancer village’: Canada’s plastic recycling dumped and burned overseas
Fumes spewed from the machinery as workers — wearing only T-shirts, sandals and no masks — at a recycling factory in northern Malaysia...
Order of Canada recipient Peter Dalglish found guilty of child sex assault in Nepal
Peter Dalglish, an Order of Canada recipient who has been lauded for his charity work, has been convicted of sexually assaulting two boys,...
B.C. pilot Patrick Forseth among 5 killed in Honduran plane crash
Patrick Forseth was well known in B.C.’s aviation community, according to his family. (Submitted by Daniel Miller) Five foreigners, including a Canadian pilot from...
‘I’ve cried many times’: WW II ‘miracle’ baby saved by Canadian soldiers makes long-lost connections
Mary Crabb was sitting at her living room table in suburban Hertfordshire, England, staring into a laptop. “Hello,” she exclaimed with a smile...
Detention video shows another purported ISIS fighter saying he’s from Canada
A recently released video featuring an English-speaking man who says he travelled from Canada to fight with ISIS in Syria has prompted one expert...
‘Turn it off!’: Ex-NXIVM member describes Clockwork Orange-style ‘fright study’
Turn it off! I can’t watch this! Why the f–k are you showing me this? Those are the words Jennifer Kobelt remembers...
