Emergency crews respond to derailed train in central Alberta
Emergency crews were working to contain a spill at the scene of a train derailment just south of Lacombe in central Alberta Friday night. RCMP said a…
Pump prices expected to continue climb as oilpatch eyes better days ahead
With oil prices recently returning to some of their highest levels in years, experts say drivers should prepare to pay even more at the pumps as the…
The high, human cost of global shipping in the pandemic: Sailors stuck at sea for months
For 11 months, Rolly Pague was stranded at sea, stuck on a giant shipping vessel feeding insatiable global demand sparked by the pandemic.The 31-year-old was unable to…
On this Canada Day, Canadians face calls for change — and economic historians have been trying to adjust
This week's deadly heat wave, with its new record temperatures, is just one example of how the country's economy seems to be embroiled in change this Canada…
Birchbark canoe project connects generations of Mi’kmaq in Kejimkujik National Park
Rose Meuse never got to know her grandfather, but she pictures him steering a birchbark canoe through the waterways of Nova Scotia's Kejimkujik National Park, where she…
The Real Life Partners Of The Cast Of Law And Order: Organized Crime
As one of the major TV franchises that shoot in New York instead of Los Angeles, the various "Law and Order" series has frequently used the huge…
Indigenous leaders secure papal audience to set stage for residential school apology
National Indigenous leaders will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in December to set the stage for a formal papal apology in Canada for the Roman…
Stalled permanent residency application has left London, Ont., engineer’s life ‘on hold’
Amid an economy stricken by the COVID-19 pandemic, 25-year-old Aravind Shaju had to reluctantly step away from his job as an engineer at a lab in London,…
‘We’ve got to do better’: Toronto readies to launch non-police crisis response pilot
It's been just over a year since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, with the world erupting into protest and intense calls for…
‘Where is their soul?’: Inside the failed push to make Catholic Church pay for its residential school abuses
Residential school survivor Rick Daniels and his wife, Judy Greyeyes, live in a small apartment just a few kilometres from Saskatoon's towering $28.5-million Holy Family Cathedral.The cathedral…
Man whose burned body was found in septic tank on Alberta farm identified by DNA 44 years later
A man whose death in Alberta has fascinated armchair detectives for years has finally been identified by the RCMP using genetic genealogy, The Fifth Estate has learned.…