Canadian News
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTCRA sending info about bank accounts to the IRS that don't have to be reported
The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they fall below the mandatory reporting level provi...
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTCouples fight for refunds after COVID-19 cancels wedding events
An Ontario couple is one of many across the country fighting for refunds for weddings that COVID-19 scuttled, while the venues argue they need to hold onto those deposits to survive. A legal expert sa...
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTMade with fungi, mycelium hits market as green substitute for leather, plastic
This past week, British fashion designer Stella McCartney unveiled a black 'leather' bustier top and pants made not from cow hide, but mycelium, which is grown from fungi. Here's a closer look at the ...
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTAlberta's oil and gas workers wrestle with layoffs and an uncharted future
Amid global efforts to transition away from fossil fuels, Alberta is not only being challenged to put thousands of oil and gas workers back to work but to carve out a place in a low-emissions future ...
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:14 EDTWorld Water Day 2021 highlights dire predictions of growing scarcity
About four billion people experience severe water shortages for at least one month a year, and around 1.6 billion people — almost a quarter of the world's population — have problems accessing a c...
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTBehind the profit, and politics, driving Montreal's new light rail project
The concerns about the REM’s east-end extension are not just technical matters about an engineering project. They are part of a larger debate about which institutions ought to be shaping the future ...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTHundreds in Montreal denounce anti-Asian racism with march, vigil
Hundreds of people marched together Sunday in Montreal to denounce systemic racism and hate crimes against Asian people after eight people — including six Asian women — were killed in a series ...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 07:00:00 EDT1st exhibit at Winnipeg Art Gallery's Qaumajuq showcases Inuit art forms old and new
Watch videos featuring nine Inuk artists and their contemporary works that will be part of INUA, the inaugural exhibit at Qaumajuq, the Winnipeg Art Gallery's Inuit Art Centre, which opens to the publ...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTB.C. boy permanently brain damaged after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli
Marketplace finds out why outbreaks of E. coli keep happening with romaine lettuce — and meets a B.C. family whose young son was sickened, and will never be the same.
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:14:25 EDTQuebec man wants to visit father in N.B. before dementia robs them of a final goodbye
The New Brunswick government has denied a Quebec man's request to visit his father in New Brunswick while his father can still recognize him. Under rules put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, if ...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:12:45 EDTWith blubber 'shaking,' 800-pound seal scoots back to sea after roadside standoff
After a 90-minute staredown with first responders and a crowd of curious onlookers on a road near the north shore of P.E.I. Sunday, an 800-pound hooded seal finally turned around and began to "hump, h...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:13:46 EDTRaptors coach Nick Nurse fined $50K US for mask-throwing, profanity
The NBA has fined Toronto coach Nick Nurse $50,000 US for throwing his facemask behind the scorer's table and toward the stands, plus for directing profanity toward game officials before leaving the f...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 07:00:00 EDTNew domestic violence shelter offers support for an unexpected client — abusers
The southern Alberta pilot project allows victimized families to remain in their homes, while removing the perpetrators — putting the onus on abusers to disrupt behaviour patterns and receive treatm...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:15:11 EDTAdvocates call for immediate end to street checks 'exception'
More than a year after Nova Scotia barred police from performing street checks — a practice Black people are six times more likely to be subjected to than their white counterparts — advocates say ...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTOlympic swimmer Brent Hayden taking 'wait and see' approach to vaccines before Games
In a recently announced agreement, the International Olympic Committee entered into a partnership with the Chinese Olympic committee to buy and provide vaccines for people participating in the Tokyo G...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:00:00 EDTCelebrating Navroz, the Persian New Year, through the lens of Ismaili Muslims
While eye-catching scenes of people jumping over fires during Navroz — the Persian New Year that marks the arrival spring — may be recognizable images in Metro Vancouver, the ancient festi...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:35:26 EDTCanadian Pacific Railway to buy Kansas City Southern for $25B US
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. on Sunday said it has agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $25 billion US in a cash-and-shares deal to create the first rail network connecting the United States, Mexic...
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:21:28 EDTPabineau First Nation Elder Gilbert Sewell dies at 81
Mi'kmaw Elder Gilbert Sewell, known for his dedication to language instruction and Mi'kmaw culture, has died. He was 81.
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 05:00:00 EDTSailor's got mail: N.S. puppy and Alberta school kids are cross-country pals
A purse-sized pooch near Halifax, N.S., is teaching kids in Okotoks, Alta., how to read, write and have fun across the miles during the pandemic.
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDTJews in Russian city scarred by WWII massacre watch Canada's decision on Nazi interpreter
As Canadian immigration officials decide the fate of an interpreter who worked for the Nazis, the Jewish community of a Russian city, decimated by the unit he worked for, is watching.