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Protesters must clear Vancouver Island blockade or risk arrest after logging company wins injunction
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an injunction against protesters who have been blocking a forestry company for eight months from operating on Vancouver...
Despite calls for change, Canada’s RBC is one of world’s top bankers to fossil fuel industry
Canadian banks have a serious fossil fuel addiction. But it is not just a Canadian problem. The latest study of corporate data from...
Cruise ships would bypass B.C. under proposed Alaska law, prompting worries for battered tourism sector
There are fears British Columbia’s tourism industry could be in jeopardy with newly tabled U.S. legislation that would allow cruise ships to sail around current...
An animated history of elections gone sideways in N.L.
Burned ballots, angry mobs, candidates tossed in jail: elections in Newfoundland & Labrador have seen it all. (Katie Rowe/CBC) With its shifting deadlines, mail-in...
CRA sending details of bank accounts to IRS that don’t have to be reported
The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they...
The Most Controversial Oprah Interviews Ever
By February 1988, two-time Academy Award winner Elizabeth Taylor wasn’t the major movie star she once was. She appeared in the occasional TV...
Great COVID-19 bicycle boom expected to keep bike industry on its toes for years to come
Some bicycle shops across Canada are so busy with a pandemic-triggered boom in sales and its subsequent backlog that even answering phone calls is a struggle. At Sidesaddle Bike Shop in Vancouver,...
Jews in Russian city scarred by WWII massacre watch Canada’s decision on Nazi interpreter
As the evening light falls over the gentle slope of the ravine, Natalia Yefimushkina, her head tightly bound in a red scarf, stares...
Ontario to (finally) pull the plug on fax machines in public service
For the generation comfortable communicating using only emojis or through TikTok videos, it’s a baffling sight still found in many offices: a bulky...
CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash
WARNING: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive. Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train...
People are celebrating their COVID-19 vaccine shots with selfies. Some think it’s time to give it a rest
Initially, Dr. Alan Drummond welcomed the idea of the so-called vaccine selfie — people sharing their COVID-19 vaccination pictures on social media — as a celebration and...
Doctor cautioned to stop encouraging people to breach pandemic public health orders
A family doctor has been cautioned by Newfoundland and Labrador’s medical regulator to stop encouraging people to disobey Chief Medical Officer of Health...
Driver of 2nd boat in O’Leary crash convicted of failing to exhibit navigation light
The operator of one of the boats in a 2019 fatal crash involving a vessel driven by Linda O’Leary, wife of businessman and reality...
COVID-19 has added to the educational barriers girls and women face around the world
This column is an opinion by Alexandra Chaves, a 19-year-old Plan Canada Youth Advocate who is passionate about gender equality and girls’ rights. She is also...
Ontario changing child-welfare system to stop teens from aging out of care unprepared
Unlike many teenagers, Abdoulaye Diakhaby was petrified to turn 18. He had spent the previous four years in the child-welfare system living first in...
Ontario man battles Bell and contractor after worker uses power tool to clean his car
David Rooney couldn’t believe what he was seeing when he looked out his front window in June and saw a Bell Canada contract...
