Heroic efforts by five strangers, who acted in the nick of time, saved the life of a Toronto man, pulling him out of a burning car on an Ontario highway earlier this month. The driver suffered a seizure, causing him to crash his vehicle off the Queen Elizabeth Highway, but […]
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As Pope Francis travelled across Canada, so did a demand to revisit centuries-old declarations. At the front of a basilica in Quebec, where the 85-year-old pontiff prepared to preside over mass, Sarain Fox and her cousin stood in silence, holding a banner with the words “Rescind the Doctrine” emblazoned in […]
Michelle Shenandoah, a member of the Oneida Nation, is wondering why she didn’t get to meet Pope Francis Wednesday evening at the Citadel in Quebec City, to show him a cradleboard he asked to see. “We didn’t know until the very last minute that that wasn’t going to happen,” she […]
Warning: This story deals with disturbing subject matter that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised. According to Tom McCallum (White Standing Buffalo), when Cree-speaking peoples first saw the “black robes” kneeling down and immersed in prayer, they didn’t know what the clergymen were doing. Pointing up to […]
Like many other sectors facing workforce shortages, Halifax Transit is feeling the strain of an overburdened system. Twice this month, the municipality has begun cancelling certain trips to try and alleviate the pain. Currently, 31 trips are affected, and the municipality says the cancellations will remain “until further notice.” Read more: […]
The explosion in Conservative membership sales could significantly shake up the party’s grassroots as well as the long-standing power dynamics between various factions, multiple sources tell Global News. The biggest beneficiary of that shake-up would likely be Pierre Poilievre, the purported frontrunner to lead the Conservative Party of Canada into […]
It won’t be easy for Peter Irniq, a residential school survivor, to meet Pope Francis in Iqaluit next week. “It’s going to be scary,” said Irniq, who was abused by a nun at the age of 11 as a student at the school in Chesterfield Inlet in what is now […]
The annual rate of inflation in Canada hit 8.1 per cent in June as prices on gasoline surged, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday. And economists are starting to wonder whether price pressures have peaked. Gasoline prices were up 54.6 per cent year-over-year and 6.2 per cent month-to-month in June, contributing […]
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 19, 2022 6:35 am Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Canada’s western provinces are dealing with a number of wildfires caused by warmer and drier weather. The B.C. Wildfire Service is keeping an eye on […]
As research suggests that COVID-19 has infected roughly half of the Canadian population, the emergence of an even more contagious version of the virus means some people may be in for another round. But questions remain about the prevalence of reinfection, and the short and long-term health impact that subsequent […]