Around Canada

Canada’s women’s hockey team is poised to reverse-sweep the United States after tying the 2023-24 Rivalry Series at three games apiece, winning 3-0 Friday night in Regina.  Spooner opens scoring early in 3rd period en route to 3rd straight win against rivals. Canada’s women’s hockey team is poised to reverse-sweep …

A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to convicted Penn State child molester Jerry Sandusky.  Steyn, who represented himself at trial, plans to appeal jury award …

Virtual care became a convenient way to access health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a new study has raised concerns that patients’ private health data isn’t always being adequately protected from pharmaceutical companies and other third parties.  Canadian researchers have patient privacy concerns as industry grows post-COVID. This story …

The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously upheld the Trudeau government’s Indigenous child welfare law, dismissing Quebec’s appeal in a landmark opinion affirming Indigenous Peoples’ jurisdiction over child and family services. High court dismisses Quebec’s challenge to the legislation. The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously upheld the Trudeau government’s …

The Canadian economy added 37,000 jobs in January as unemployment fell slightly to 5.7 per cent, the first decline since December 2022, according to a Friday report from Statistics Canada. Unemployment falls for first time since December 2022. The Canadian economy added 37,000 jobs in January as unemployment fell slightly …

Politicians and law enforcement officials are confronting a rising number of auto thefts — and it appears that the office of Canada’s justice minister is also a popular target for thieves.  News comes as Ottawa convenes a national summit to discuss how to crack down on auto thefts. Politicians and …

Mike Juby was outside Bridge Street United Church in Belleville, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon when people suddenly started dropping to the sidewalk all around him. There were “ambulances left, right and centre” as paramedics loaded people onto stretchers and rushed them to hospital, he recalled. “It was ugly,” Juby said. …

In a 2022 promotional video, Robby Clark stands at the bow of a yacht, arms raised to the sky as a camera circles overhead. “You can stick me in the desert with nothing and I’m going to come out owning the desert,” he says. Less than two years later, his …

A man who targeted Canadians for cryptocurrency investment scams is speaking out after escaping the Cambodian compound where he was forced to do it. Investment fraud represented highest proportion of victim losses in Canada in 2023. A man who targeted Canadians for cryptocurrency investment scams is speaking out after escaping …

Last year, CBC published a story about Korean Canadian adoptees who believed they were orphans their whole lives, only to discover that wasn’t the case. Since then, other “paper orphans” have learned they were stolen from their biological parents or their families were still alive and searching for them. B.C. …