Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson called again on Sunday for U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to change course on Brexit, accusing her of forcing through a deal to keep the country locked in the EU’s customs union in a “total surrender.” It was the latest call by Johnson, a key figurehead in Britain’sRead More →
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press freedom event in Paris Sunday that one of the bulwarks protecting democratic governments from being undermined is also an institution under stress — a free-thinking, robust media. “If a democracy is to function you need an educated populace, and you need to haveRead More →
A pioneer of the Stratford Festival, Douglas Rain, died Sunday at the age of 90 in a hospital just outside the city in which he first established his longtime classical career. Rain spent 32 seasons acting at Stratford and was one of the few surviving founding members of the company.Read More →
Jeremiah Masoli threw three first-half touchdown passes to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a lopsided 48-8 CFL East Division semifinal win over the visiting B.C. Lions on Sunday afternoon. Hamilton advances to the East final next Sunday against Ottawa at TD Place. The Redblacks swept the regular-season series 3-0. Masoli, the East nominee forRead More →
To Canadian fisheries scientist Luc Comeau, the humble blue mussel is more than a bivalve — it’s a bio sentinel. “If something is strange in the environment, they will behave strangely,” says Comeau, a scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Comeau is part of an international effort that isRead More →
The United Conservative Party needs to remove a member that compared rainbow pride flags to swastikas, says an LGBTQ advocate. On Saturday, Calgary lawyer John Carpay with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms spoke at a conference organized by Rebel Media, a far-right media organization that has been criticized for sympathetic coverage ofRead More →
Maybe Jay McArthur would never have had a chance to start his Brighton, Ont., home inspection business had he not stopped on the way to the shower in 2007 to use the phone at his military base in Afghanistan. As it turns out his call home went unanswered, and McArthur,Read More →
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Paris along with dozens of other world leaders to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War — attending a peace forum after a ceremony this morning led by French President Emmanuel Macron amid grey and damp weather, which seemed fitting when rememberingRead More →
On the day marijuana became legal in Canada, Jon Keefe, a co-owner of a cannabis accessories store in St. John’s, N.L., had a “strange visit” from the province’s new pot regulators. There were several customers browsing through Dabber Hashery, which carries items like glassware cleaners and electronic vaporizers, when two inspectorsRead More →
Remembrance Day bells will ring at Parliament Hill, and at city halls, places of worship and military bases across Canada today to commemorate the end of the First World War a century ago. CBC coverage for the national ceremony in Ottawa starts at 10 a.m. ET. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, who is heading theRead More →