Sexual assault complainant details alleged abuse by junior hockey coach Bernie Lynch
It was the kind of offer a 17-year-old with big-league hockey ambitions didn't feel he could turn down: A chance to be an instructor at the Regina…
Tree poaching on Vancouver Island prompts spike in forest patrols
The municipality of North Cowichan is stepping up patrols of the region's forest reserve, after an increase in timber theft in the area, which lies 70 kilometres…
Vaccine etiquette: What’s safe to ask others and what’s off the table
The advent of COVID-19 vaccines has provided hope that there will soon be a return to something closer to what we remember as being "normal."But with the…
Vaccination rates lagging in poor Montreal areas, but outreach workers see surge in interest at pop-up clinic
Shahista Hussein walks along the lineup stretching around the corner of Hutchison Street and Jean-Talon Boulevard in Montreal's Parc-Extension neighbourhood. Public health officials seemed to have underestimated…
B.C. mayor apologizes for U.S. trip to visit family, get vaccinated
The mayor of a West Kootenay town has apologized for what she now says was a wrong decision to travel to the United States for COVID-19 vaccines…
Fire, flood, COVID and the oil crash: Fort McMurray businesses aim to bounce back from hard luck
Anyone who buys a restaurant knows the business is not for the faint of heart. In an oil town, where fortunes can rise or plummet in an…
Group of Ontario police officers launches charter challenge of pandemic restrictions
A group of 19 Ontario police officers has launched a constitutional challenge against the provincial and federal governments and several police chiefs, claiming that enforcing sweeping pandemic…
7 Manitoba churches challenging province’s COVID-19 pandemic powers in court
Seven rural Manitoba churches hope to convince a judge that the province's lockdown measures are unjustified violations of Charter-protected freedoms of conscience, religion, expression and peaceful assembly…
A sacred fire burns in the heart of Ontario Treaty 3 Territory for survivors of sexual violence
Watching the flames dance into the nighttime sky with beating hand drums to fill the silence, Cheynna Gardner says she finds healing.She's spent every night around the…
Child battling cancer fulfils dream of meeting Sidney Crosby, gives him beaded medallion
An 11-year-old Winnipeg boy battling cancer recently fulfilled his dream of meeting his hero, NHL player Sidney Crosby, and gave the superstar a beaded medallion to match…
MLB fires Roberto Alomar from consultant position amid sexual misconduct allegation
Major League Baseball has fired former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman and Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar from a consultant position amid a sexual misconduct allegation. Commissioner…