At the end of last week’s historic visit by Inuit elders from Nunavut, there was a lucky turn of events When Taqialuk Peter opens the box, she can hardly believe what’s inside: a small stone statue of a caribou and, she says through tears, an unexpected “miracle.” Kathryn Dain brought the carving to the Art…
The building’s age was to blame, and people were told to leave by the end of October The owner of a retirement home with 40 residents in Cornwall, Ontario, says the building is so old that it needs to be replaced. This has left some people wondering where they will live next. Heritage Manor is…
The Grand Parade will start at 8 a.m. on Lakeshore Boulevard from Exhibition Place Grounds Lakeshore Boulevard will be full of bright, feathered, and sparkling characters, and steel pan music will be playing. Saturday is the Grand Parade for the Toronto Caribbean Carnival. The event, which is a celebration of freedom, is expected to draw…
PhD students walked away from the police, but soon they were stuck against a fence Two PhD students walking home in Montreal’s west end after a night out decided to step into the empty road to avoid a police operation. Within minutes, they were thrown against a fence in what they say was a violent…
The goal of Camp Dyvo is to help newcomers feel like part of a group Ukrainian music blasted out of a basement in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal on Friday afternoon as a group of happy children danced in front of their parents, who brought them to Canada to get away from the war…
In Peterborough, Ontario, the Canadian Canoe Museum is moving from a former factory to a new home on the water It’s not like any other portage. The Canadian Canoe Museum is moving hundreds of canoes, some of which are as long as a trailer, from their old home in an old outboard motor factory in…
“Most people find it funny,” says the town crier, but he has an important job to do With a paper scroll, a bell, and an umbrella, the newly hired town crier in the Quebec City neighborhood of St-Roch spoke to a crowd in the pouring rain on Wednesday. “Hey, Hey! Charles-Auguste Lehoux said in French,…
The city still hasn’t sent the request as of Wednesday, 357 days after the council voted to do so CBC Hamilton has learned that almost a year after the Hamilton city council voted to make small amounts of illegal drugs less of a crime, city officials still haven’t asked Health Canada for an exemption. Researchers…
In Ukraine, the couple owned several businesses. In March, they moved to Winnipeg Olha Mashyna might be meant to be a cook. This year, she and her family left Ukraine because of the war and moved to Winnipeg. A chance meeting with the owner of a restaurant in Manitoba led her back to doing what…
A conservationist says, “I was sure it was Grace, and it broke my heart. Warning: This story has details and pictures that are upsetting. One of Ontario’s oldest snapping turtles has been found dead, ending a year of hopeless searching for signs of her survival by conservationists. Now, the strange place where her body was…