Part of the plaster ceiling is falling off the building The movement to save one of the province’s most well-known lighthouses feels even more urgent now that damage has been found. Grand Manan’s Swallowtail lighthouse, which has long been in need of repairs, has recently suffered further damage, including water damage. Part of the plaster…
B.C. has started a 3-year test to make it legal to have small amounts of some drugs Police in Portland, Oregon, have seen Charles Laprain in a parking lot with fentanyl powder. That would have been a crime two years ago. Instead, Portland police officer David Baer writes him a $100 US ticket, which could…
The people who help Premier the most are also the ones who come up with her most controversial ideas Premier Danielle Smith has been a big fan of RStar for a long time. RStar was a program that gave oil and gas companies financial incentives to clean up old wells, which was already the law.…
Dr. Danielle Brown-Shreves says, “We care for patients of all ages and races through an equity lens. When Dr. Danielle Brown-Shreves walks through the three-story clinic she opened in the Glebe during the pandemic, it’s like a dream come true. She dreamed for 20 years of running a multidisciplinary medical center where it would be…
The leader of the Conservative Party says that three Ontario MPs didn’t know what Christine Anderson thought and “regret” meeting with her Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, is trying to distance his party from a far-right German politician whose views have been called hateful and racist. This week, the politician was seen…
Manitoba and the federal government agree in principle on how to pay for health care Manitoba and the federal government have reached a deal in principle that will give the province more than $6 billion for health care. A news release from Health Canada with federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said Friday morning that the…
Black Canadians have thought of the church in St. Catharines, Ontario, as a special place for many years Edward Roy Cassell Smith sometimes imagines that his ancestors were happy on the balcony of the Salem Chapel, where freed slaves came to worship for the first time almost 170 years ago. Smith says that the small…
Women at Whitefish Lake First Nation #128 will be able to vote again after this decision Two Cree women won a court case that gave women at an Alberta First Nation their right to vote back. Two election rules at Whitefish Lake First Nation #128 were thrown out by the Federal Court on February 15.…
Ian Carlson was finally able to go inside. Thursda When Ian Carlson walks into his house in east Ottawa for the first time since an explosion happened nearby last Monday, he sees cracked ceilings and exposed insulation, and most of his back wall is gone. When you look through his front door, you see straight…
Enbridge says it had to send Ingrid Raudsepp a bill because it couldn’t read her gas meter Ingrid Raudsepp says she couldn’t believe her eyes when Enbridge Gas Inc. sent her a series of new bills in December, telling her she owed a whopping $7,430.06 for the previous 12 months. Raudsepp lives in Mississauga, which…