Paris’ iconic Place de la Concorde is no stranger to the spotlight. Various royals, including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, were executed there during the French Revolution. Philip Kim is set to make another kind of history there. The 27-year-old from Vancouver, better known as B-Boy Phil Wizard, will be front and centre as the…
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 8, 2024 12:12 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Postmedia’s $1-million bid to acquire Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper chain will not be held up by the main union that represents workers at SaltWire Network Inc. and The Halifax Herald Ltd. A…
A report into systemic racism at the London Police Service (LPS) paints a picture of officers who treat non-White people in a domineering and rude way, often stereotyping communities and using excessive force while dismissing victims’ suffering. In particular, Indigenous people reported their medicines not being respected during searches, people of colour said they were…
Click on the video player above beginning at 12:05 p.m. ET to watch live Olympic athletics coverage. Watch live track action featuring Andre De Grasse in the men’s 200m semifinals at the bottom of this story. Canada’s Alysha Newman is going for gold in the Olympic women’s pole vault final at 12:15 p.m. ET at Stade…
A new study by Statistics Canada is trying to answer the looming question of how the country will be impacted once the remaining baby boomer generation retires — and it points to immigration as a factor that could both help and challenge. The study, released Tuesday, looked at how different immigration levels and labour force…
Kacie Bosch committed blood, sweat and tears to the Canadian women’s 3×3 basketball team at the Paris Olympics. Bosch was wounded in the play-in game against Australia, leaking blood and requiring on-court treatment before finishing out the tournament with a bandage above her right eye. The tournament itself “was definitely the biggest toll on our…
Canadian diver Caeli McKay has fallen just short of the podium again, finishing fourth in women’s 10-metre platform at the Paris Games roughly a week after she and partner Kate Miller landed in the same spot in the synchronized event. McKay, of Calgary, jumped from eighth to fourth place in her third dive but couldn’t…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Winnipeg Humane Society says it has its hands full dealing with a massive influx of animals after a historic seizure by the province. The WHS said Tuesday that the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian-Animal Welfare recently removed more than 130 dogs from a home north of…
Manny Grosse, 73, has lived his whole life in Halifax, most of it in public housing. So have eight of his 10 siblings who, like Grosse, moved into public housing and started families there. It didn’t begin that way. Grosse was baby No. 7 when his parents, Henry and Irene Grouse, were renting on Jacob…
Three years ago in Tokyo, Canadian paddlers Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent stormed back from fifth place in the final 250 metres of the C-2 500m canoe sprint, pushing their way to an Olympic bronze medal. It was the first time the Olympics featured women’s canoe sprint events after years of fighting for women…
