The streets of Toronto were filled with music, colour and rainbows as thousands of people took part in the annual Pride parade on Sunday. The parade kicked off at 2 p.m., with more than 25,000 marchers making their way from the Rosedale neighbourhood through the downtown core to Nathan Phillips Square. Toronto’s event is Canada’s largest Pride celebration…
The federal government has ordered a Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems to shutter its Canadian business and leave the country over national security concerns. Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in a post on X late Friday that the orders issued to Hikvision Canada Inc. are the result of a national security review under the…
After an Alberta judge granted a temporary injunction blocking a provincial law that would ban doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth, Premier Danielle Smith said she intends to fight the decision in court. “The court had said that they think that there will be irreparable harm if the law goes ahead. I feel the…
David Gardiner received a handout from the City of Vancouver on June 6, telling him that his street name was going to be changing. He has lived on the now formerly-named Trutch Street for 40 years, which now bears the name šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (pronounced sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-sum), which translates to Musqueamview in English. Signposts bear the English name…
An Alberta judge has put on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth. Justice Allison Kuntz, in a written judgment Friday, said the law raises serious issues that need to be hashed out in court, and issued a temporary injunction against the law before it fully came into effect….
Crystal de Balinhard said it is the small moments and the big milestones with her son, Chase, that she misses the most. She told Global News she is still left with questions about her neurodivergent son, who died at the hands of police. On Feb. 10, Surrey RCMP responded to reports of a person with…
Residents of the Northern Village of Denare Beach, Sask., and Saskatchewan’s Opposition NDP say the provincial government failed the village as a wildfire approached nearly a month ago. Denare Beach is located close to the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border and has approximately 700 year-round residents. More than 200 homes were destroyed by the Wolf fire. People from the village say it received…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The province is stepping in to shut down an encampment at Highway 97 and Fairview Road in Penticton, B.C. “We’ve put a notice out to residents that they have ’til the end of the day to vacate that location,” BC Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon said Wednesday. Outreach…
The government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) have re-declared suicide to be a crisis, mirroring a move the territory made a decade ago. The declaration was one of 32 recommendations from a coroner’s inquest in April. That inquest looked into the circumstances around the death of George Arlooktoo, 28, during a confrontation with…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A mother who lost her son after he accidentally fell off the platform at the Stadium-Chinatown SkyTrain station is now calling on TransLink to improve safety measures at the stations. Cunningham’s 34-year-old son, Julian, fell backward off the platform on Saturday morning and was killed. “My son…
