Scaled-down ceremonies mark Remembrance Day across Canada
The boom of a gun rang out in the sky above Ottawa at 11 a.m. ET to mark the start of a moment of silence, but the…
Remembering In Flanders Fields: Why John McCrae’s poignant WW I words still have power today
Like so many things in 2020, Canada's Remembrance Day ceremonies will be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities will still commemorate their war dead on Nov. 11,…
How technology — and a global pandemic — are transforming Remembrance Day
On a grey, windswept spring day three years ago, Ryan Mullens sat next to the grave of a long-dead soldier in the green shadows of the Canadian…
Western provinces report new highs in number of people hospitalized with COVID-19
The latest: BREAKING: Ontario reports record high of 1,426 new COVID-19 cases. Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan set new records for COVID-19 hospitalizations. Manitoba moving to red alert level,…
Why Britney Spears refuses to perform again
Britney Spears' dad's lawyer Vivian Lee Thoreen stated that there was no "proof to support" Jamie Spears' suspension as conservator, per the Associated Press, though the judge…
Kaitlyn Bristowe’s Britney Spears-inspired performance on the Nov. 9, 2020
Kaitlyn Bristowe's Britney Spears-inspired performance on the Nov. 9, 2020, episode of Dancing with the Stars had fans talking because the Bachelor Nation star finally got the…
Immigration detention centres emptied over fear of possible COVID-19 outbreaks
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is emptying out its detention centres and finding alternatives to keeping detainees behind bars until they can be processed.The reason is…
How long can interest rates stay low once a vaccine arrives?
Jubilation over the good news about a vaccine has taken markets by storm.Shortly after the news broke on Monday that the U.S. drugmaker Pfizer had a COVID-19…
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…