Months after mass layoffs threatened its future, Sports Illustrated will resume publishing after its owner reached a new rights deal with digital media company Minute Media. Iconic sports mag laid off staff after previous publisher missed payment to owners. Sports Illustrated will resume publishing after its owner reached a new …
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Telecom execs insist wireless prices going down as MPs voice concern over costs
The chief executives of Canada’s three largest telecom companies stressed that phone and internet prices are coming down during an appearance before MPs on Monday, noting that increased data usage and high spectrum costs may be some reasons Canadians feel otherwise. Bell, Rogers and Telus CEOs appear before committee probing …
Read More »In Canadian classrooms, students are learning math concepts through Métis beading practices
An elementary school initiative that explores math concepts while incorporating Indigenous practices is making its way into classrooms across Canada. Recently, Guelph, Ont., students were elated to explore their creativity while designing and making beaded bracelets. Ontario’s Wellington Catholic School Board hosting the second half of its Métis-math collaborative project …
Read More »For many in B.C. finding a rental has become a full-time job, competition is fierce
Families in British Columbia are competing online for rentals in Canada’s toughest rental market, where an apartment is on average almost $2,500 a month. Housing policy experts say renters with few options are desperate — some even offering landlords perks — to try to find an affordable, or at least …
Read More »Ottawa police shocked, struck, kicked Black man in case of mistaken identity
A young man from Burundi said he struggled to breathe as an officer pushed his face into the snow. Ottawa police acknowledge they had the wrong man. Video shows forceful arrest after foot chase in Orléans in February. Kane Niyondagara was walking home from a Starbucks in Ottawa’s east end …
Read More »How animals act as the circulatory system of our planet — by eating, pooping, and dying
In a new book titled Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World, conservation biologist Joe Roman details all the ways that the biological activities of animals make and remake our world — and explores how protecting animals can help fix some of the damage humans have done. New book …
Read More »An NDP motion puts a big question to the test: Will Canada recognize Palestinian statehood?
NDP foreign affairs critic has brought forward an opposition day motion that calls on the government to take several actions in response to the war in Gaza. The most controversial and far-reaching is recognition of Palestinian statehood. The motion risks dividing the Liberals. The NDP motion risks splitting the Liberals …
Read More »Putin dismisses protesters, Russia’s critics following challenge-free election
The United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and other nations have said the vote was neither free nor fair due to the imprisonment of political opponents and censorship. Western nations argue Russian vote not free or fair due to censorship, crackdowns. Putin’s expected landslide victory met with protests Early election …
Read More »Hundreds join Pierre Poilievre for ‘Axe the Tax’ rally in Halifax
Hundreds attended a St. Patrick’s Day rally with Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre in Halifax on Sunday. At the start of the event, Poilievre took a sip of Guinness while highlighting that federal taxes on liquor are set to increase by two per cent on April 1, alongside …
Read More »Israeli military launches night raid on Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
The Israeli military said on Monday its troops raided the compound of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, in an operation Palestinian health authorities said had caused multiple casualties and set off a fierce fire in one of the buildings. Military operation causes multiple casualties and sets off fatal fire, say Palestinian officials. …
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