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NEW YORK - Toni Morrison is on the list. So are John Green and Harper Lee. And John Steinbeck and Margaret Atwood. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the...
Sep 27, 2020
MONTREAL - The Correctional Service of Canada says it is suspending visits to federal prisons in Quebec to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19. The agency says temporary absences and wo...
Sep 27, 2020
YEREVAN, Armenia - Fighting erupted anew Sunday between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh and a top territorial official said 16 people were kille...
Sep 27, 2020
TORONTO - A shadowy group of cyber criminals that attacked a prominent nursing organization and Canadian Tire store has successfully targeted other companies with clients in governments, health care, ...
Sep 27, 2020
OTTAWA - In mid-March, Christine Ilott's manager broke some bad news to her: she was losing her job in live theatre as a result of the pandemic.  The 47-year-old went home to her basement apartme...
Sep 27, 2020
NANAIMO - It might look a little bit different this year, but the goal of the Tour de Rock remains as important as ever.A small group of riders will tour through Nanaimo on Sunday, Sep. 27 in a bid to...
Sep 27, 2020
A Quebec author acquitted last week of child pornography charges in connection with passages in a horror novel says he - and fiction writers across the country - can "breathe again." Yv...
Sep 27, 2020
When COVID-19 case counts first started rising around Canada six months ago, Olympic snowboarder Max Parrot worried that his recent bout with cancer would put him at greater risk of con...
Sep 27, 2020
HALIFAX - When Jaime Battiste was in his early 20s, cable news channels were full of images of Mi'kmaq fishermen in New Brunswick battling federal fisheries officers over seized lobster trap...
Sep 27, 2020
The controversy around WE Charity in Canada is opening the door to a public discussion about whether WE - and groups like it - actually help the African communities where they operate. ...
Sep 27, 2020