Up

2018 Articles
WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Worried your COVID-19 vaccine won’t be accepted abroad? Here’s what you need to know

Fully vaccinated and ready to travel? Before booking your trip, make sure your destination recognizes your COVID-19 vaccine. As some Canadian travellers have already...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Calgary Stampede COVID cases grow to 84, as doctors say repercussions still unknown

Thirteen more cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the Calgary Stampede and doctors say the full repercussions of the event likely won’t be...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Millions meant for residential school survivors spent on Catholic Church lawyers, administration: documents

The Roman Catholic Church spent millions of dollars that were supposed to go to residential school survivors on lawyers, administration, a private fundraising...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Supply bottlenecks leave U.S. Fed watching for persistent inflation

By American standards, Canadian inflation looks pretty tame. But the picture painted by U.S. Federal Reserve chair  Jerome Powell suggests we should expect price rises...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Extreme drought in southern B.C. taking devastating toll on life in water and on land

What was once a steady stream of cool, clear water had become a patch of shallow, muddy puddles. Inside these remaining pools not...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

First Nations coalition demands top Sask. judge resign over residential school file dispute

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN), which represents Saskatchewan’s First Nations, is demanding the resignation of one of the province’s top judges...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say

A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say. Michael Fromm, a...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Lac La Ronge Indian Band begins search for residential school graves, with ‘a lot of work ahead’

WARNING: This story contains distressing details The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has become the latest First Nation in Saskatchewan to begin searching...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Ontario’s hair school standards still ignore Black hair 4 years after work began to include it

Deanne Simms remembers walking into a salon as a teen and being met by a woman who was frantically running toward her from...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Canada’s Maggie Mac Neil wins gold in women’s 100m butterfly

Maggie Mac Neil won Canada’s first gold medal of these Olympics, capturing the women’s 100-metre butterfly in a Canadian record of 55.59 seconds...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

These adventure cats bring joy to their owners — and social media followers

Canadians have embraced the outdoors in droves over the past year-and-a-half due to pandemic-related lockdowns — and their fluffy, tree-climbing, bird-watching feline companions have been tagging along....

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Nova Scotia riding will have a Black MLA no matter which party wins in election

For the first time in more than 20 years, one of Nova Scotia’s oldest and largest Black communities will be represented by a...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Residential schools: How the U.S. and Canada share a troubling history

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. A member of the U.S. federal cabinet says she wept when she heard news from Canada about...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Meet the unvaccinated: Why some Canadians still haven’t had the shot

Canada’s vaccine campaign has been crushing it lately, with an impressive 80 per cent of eligible Canadians having had at least one dose of...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Television reboots are an easy sell — but are they crowding out BIPOC voices?

It seems like almost every day a new television reboot is announced, quelling audience desires for nostalgic content. Sex and the City, Frasier and...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Long waits for Toronto-area nursing homes geared to cultural groups reflect need for more of them, report says

Lily Wong was admitted to the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto at age 88, several years after she had a...