A Richmond, B.C., man is being offered compensation after TD Bank says thousands of dollars were taken from him in a case of mistaken identity. The bank apologized to Le Zhang on Thursday, saying it froze his account “in error” — almost two weeks after the 36-year-old was shocked to find about $7,800 had been withdrawn in…
A wheelchair racer whips around the track, arms burning in the push for the finish line. A cyclist flies through the velodrome, teetering on the edge of collapse. In both Paralympic events, lives can change in a matter of seconds. “It is human NASCAR at some level,” says Canadian wheelchair sprinter Austin Smeenk. “We’re going…
Lately, Karine Boudreau has toyed with the idea of quitting. For most of her 18-year career as a school psychologist, the thought of doing something else never crossed her mind. But in the last four years, she’s been feeling stretched too thin to do right by the students. “The satisfaction in my job is harder…
Birth control will become free for all Manitobans with a prescription as of Oct. 1, Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara announced on Thursday. The Manitoba pharmacare program will cover the full cost of about 60 commonly used birth-control methods, including the pill, intrauterine devices, hormone injections and others. “Costs should never be a barrier to you receiving the…
The track on which world records, breakthrough medals and Paralympic dreams were forged sits hidden in a slight valley next to a parking lot. It’s a 400-metre loop that’s provided the groundwork for so much success over the past half-decade, yet it’s extremely easy to miss amid the campus buildings perched up above. But when…
It is “entirely unacceptable” for parties in a looming nationwide railway shutdown to risk sabotaging Canada’s economic progress, finance minister Chrystia Freeland says. “It is entirely unacceptable for anyone to get in the way of that economic progress that we have all been making and that has been so hard-fought and so hard-won,” Freeland told…
Wildfires in Alberta last summer burned more area than any previous fire season and a new study shows hot, dry conditions and an unusual amount of fires started by lightning were major contributing factors. These findings come from a new study of the 2023 Alberta wildfires, published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Jen Beverly,…
Athletes on the Refugee Paralympic Team are looking to send a message of hope as they strive for the podium at the 2024 Paralympic Games that begin in Paris next week. Eight Paralympians and one runner guide who fled conflict and persecution in their homelands are hoping to earn medals in six sports: para-athletics, para-powerlifting,…
Police in Halifax say an officer had to shoot and kill three dogs that had allegedly attacked a woman in a residence. Halifax Regional Police say they first responded to an animal attack in the 0-199 block of Fredrick Street at around 8:40 a.m. Tuesday. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around…
The head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association says the rollout of new policies banning cellphone use in classrooms starting this fall has some teachers confused about how they’ll be expected to follow them. ATA president Jason Schilling said about two weeks before most kindergarten to Grade 12 students go back to class, it’s unclear why…
