Since arriving in Canada almost two decades ago, Rong Xiang Yuan has championed closer ties between Ottawa and Beijing, spoken at community events and rubbed shoulders with politicians. The founder of an advocacy group called the Canada-China Association for Promoting Friendly Relations, he met Justin Trudeau and donated to the then-prime minister and the Liberal…
A Saskatoon-based fashion business owner is giving new life to worn out traditional clothing, but American tariffs are threatening the viability of her craft. Originally from India, Satya Muktinutalapati reuses traditional saris to make skirts, dresses and other fashion accessories. She started her business Rangeelaa about 10 years ago when she was living in Yorkton….
After close to ten years behind scaffolding, the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal is preparing for the grand unveiling of its facade, scheduled for October 25. While the restoration of the facade is complete, the basilica still has several years of work ahead of it. About 20 per cent of the necessary work has been completed,…
A constitutional battle is brewing in Quebec as a non-profit legal organization seeks to suspend a provincial law that no longer requires members of the national assembly to swear allegiance to the monarch. The legal challenge comes as premier-elect Paul St-Pierre Plamondon and the Parti Québécois prepare to take office following the party’s election victory…
A Montreal couple is preparing to take on the Montreal Marathon together this weekend, years after an ALS diagnosis dramatically changed their lives. Spencer Levine will run the 42.2-kilometre course while pushing his wife, Amanda Tam, in a specially adapted wheelchair. The idea came last spring, when Tam went to cheer on Levine at an…
The head of a provincial body that governs organized hockey in Nova Scotia is touting a new educational program that targets players after a series of hazing incidents and assaults have rocked the sport. “There’s been several incidents in hockey over the years and it’s been an area of need,” said Michael Field, the executive…
With less than two weeks to go until the Alberta referendum, the province’s election administrator says more than 3,000 mail-in ballots have been returned with errors that make them invalid. Elections Alberta says some ballot packages were returned with either declaration forms missing, errors or issues with identification. But they say there’s still time to…
A Saskatchewan First Nation wants more information, including potential environmental impacts, as Bell Canada continues construction of an AI data centre outside of Regina. The Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation in Fort Qu’appelle, Sask., penned the letter to Bell Canada and Bell Canada Enterprises, or BCE Inc., Oct. 2. It called on the company to allow…
For 22 years, the disappearance of Frank Davis remained an unanswered mystery for his family. Davis was 40 when he went missing from Creston, B.C., leaving behind loved ones who would spend years wondering what happened to him. Now, a team of divers called Adventures with Purpose uncovered a discovery beneath the waters of the…
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a Hamilton-based air ambulance carrying six people that went missing off the coast of Nantucket. The Federal Aviation Administration told Global News in a statement it issued a Search and Rescue Alert for a Gulfstream G-100 around 1:20 a.m. Saturday. The flight departed from L.F. Wade International Airport…
