The comfort of strangers: how a British family kept a slain Canadian airman’s memory alive
As a child in the late 1940s, John Charlesworth would run through the military cemetery in Harrogate, a quiet, tidy community on the edge of the windswept…
‘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 pedestrians on Toronto's…
His father was to be checked hourly at his long-term care home. Instead, he died and wasn’t found for 6 hours
Joshua Matchett said he felt something wasn't right when he couldn't reach his father on April 11. He had called half a dozen times and checked the…
James Bond actor Sean Connery dead at age 90
Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as suave, fearless secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an…
3 Vancouver workers fired after fatal Cleveland Dam water surge
Three Metro Vancouver employees have been fired in connection with a deadly water surge that occurred when a spillway gate at the Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver…
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 bedside of a patient…
Justin Trudeau asked to help with Jordan Naterer search during Memorial University town hall
Fresh off surviving a confidence vote on a Conservative motion to look into the government's ethics and pandemic spending, a relaxed-looking Justin Trudeau held a virtual town…
Dinosaur skeleton found by 12-year-old near Drumheller, Alta., hailed as ‘significant discovery’
Nathan Hrushkin and his father have hiked through the Drumheller, Alta., area for years. The Calgary boy has always loved dinosaurs, so it's natural that the 12-year-old…
Judge tosses B.C. dads’ application for stricter COVID-19 protocols in schools
A bid by two dads to force the provincial government to implement mandatory masks and strict physical distancing in classrooms has been rejected by a B.C. Supreme…
‘They chose the wrong person’: Pierre Laporte’s son reflects on his murder 50 years after October Crisis
It's been almost 50 years since Jean Laporte learned from a television report that his father had been killed by a radical group of separatists trying to…
Former Hong Kong activists wait eagerly as Ottawa starts approving asylum claims
A family that fled Hong Kong fearing persecution is hoping their asylum claims will be approved by the Canadian government as Ottawa quietly begins granting refugee status…