Canada

Community involvement key to safe, reclaimable coal mines: industry scientists

Coal mines can be environmentally safe and can become useful, enjoyable landscapes when the seam runs out, say scientists working with industry. But they admit that there are risks and costs, and urge...

May 23, 2021

Families vow to continue land battle in New Brunswick's Kouchibouguac National Park

KOUCHIBOUGUAC, N.B. - A group of 50 people gathered last week on a grassy area overlooking the Fontaine River on New Brunswick's east coast to share memories and erect a teepee. Their answer for why t...

May 23, 2021

Amateur fossil hunter finds 84-million-year-old fossilized turtle on Vancouver Island

COURTENAY, B.C. - Russell Ball was taking one of his usual walks along Vancouver Island's Puntledge River on a cool, grey day in January when he noticed something out of the ordinary. As he knelt down...

May 23, 2021

Film producer Avi Lewis named as NDP candidate in B.C. riding

HALFMOON BAY, B.C. - Documentary film producer Avi Lewis has been acclaimed as the federal NDP candidate in a riding in southern British Columbia. Lewis, the grandson of former federal NDP leader Davi...

May 22, 2021

Cloistered nuns get vaccinated to do their 'duty as citizens' and neighbours

MONTREAL - Cloistered nuns in Montreal's Carmelite monastery lined up to complete their COVID-19 vaccinations yesterday. Inside a 125-year-old convent in the city's Plateau neighbourhood, 11 sisters -...

May 22, 2021

More than half of Canadians have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose

MONTREAL - More than 50 per cent of Canadians have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Data compiled from provincial and territorial health authorities shows that more than 20.6 mill...

May 22, 2021

Canada's 50 per cent vaccine milestone a psychological boost to keep going: experts

Raywat Deonandan is feeling more hopeful these days, and he's noticed a renewed optimism in many of his epidemiology and infectious disease colleagues. After months of observing negative COVID-19 tren...

May 22, 2021

'Proved that they care': Man who held hunger strike hopeful after suicide bill passes

Last summer, a 24-year-old fiddle teacher walked more than 600 kilometres from his home in northern Saskatchewan to the legislature in Regina after a bill to address suicides was voted down a second t...

May 22, 2021

Montreal's construction charter aims to end roadwork chaos, but critics have doubts

MONTREAL - The orange cones that line Montreal's abundant construction sites have become a symbol of a city under near-constant repair, spawning cone-themed comics, a board game and trinket versions s...

May 22, 2021

NDP demands federal wage-subsidy clawbacks, but critics question feasibility

OTTAWA - The NDP is calling on the federal government to claw back pandemic wage subsidies handed to companies that took advantage of the cash to boost executive compensation, but economists say other...

May 22, 2021