Plane was going to Salmon Arm, British Columbia Six people died when a small plane crashed in the mountains west of Calgary on Friday night. The plane had five passengers and one pilot on board, according to the RCMP. The plane had left Springbank Airport near Calgary around 9:30 p.m. to go to a church…
This year, there are a lot of bills in U.S. state legislatures that affect LGBTQ communities After rainbow crosswalks were vandalized and there were protests at public libraries, schools, and LGBTQ community events in Alberta, the RCMP and Calgary police say they’ve seen more hate crimes against the community. Between January 1 and the middle…
A physicist from North End who was hired for the Manhattan Project put together the world’s first atomic bomb The hit movie from HollywoodOppenheimer Is selling out theaters and getting great reviews, but a connection to Winnipeg has stayed behind the scenes. The movie tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was…
Since October 2022, Hamilton’s men’s shelters have been too full to take any more men When Cyprin Ontita came to Canada from Kenya a little over a month ago, he said he was “in the dark” about what life would be like as an asylum seeker. “When you come from Africa, you expect to get…
There are warning systems in place in some provinces, but not in Nova Scotia A week after four people, including two children, died because of floods in Nova Scotia, some people are asking why more wasn’t done to warn people about possible flash floods. Jim Abraham, a retired meteorologist who used to work for Environment…
TJ Watt says that the 46-meter-tall Western red cedar near Tofino is a leviathan of a biodiverse ecosystem TJ Watt, who lives in Victoria and is 39 years old, has been hiking through the province’s vast and green landscape for 20 years looking for huge, old trees to document and make a case for saving…
Provincial politicians are welcome, the parade organizers said, “in a non-partisan way. According to his official schedule, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will march in the P.E.I. Pride parade in downtown Charlottetown on Saturday. The parade starts at noon at the Terry Fox Drive building of the provincial government. It keeps going down Euston Street to…
Historic sports fields cast a long shadow over the proposed site Two and a half hectares in the heart of Cornwall, Ont., are being pitched as the site of what local politicians agree is much-needed affordable housing, but the land the city has in mind is not a grand slam. The Cornwall Athletic Grounds have…
The warning came from Environment Canada at 7 p.m The tornado warning that Environment Canada put out for Ottawa Friday night has been taken away. Around 7 p.m., a warning was sent out for the area because a severe thunderstorm that could make a tornado was near Arnprior, Ontario, and moving southeast at 60 km/h.…
The weather on Wednesday made for a beautiful scene for people who wanted to see the Northern Lights This week, people in the Melfort, Saskatchewan, area got to see a beautiful natural show when a storm brought the northern lights and lightning together in the sky. The weather on Wednesday made for a beautiful scene…