A Vancouver peewee hockey coach battling a rare kidney disease has finally found a donor. Stephen Gillis was overcome with emotion after an old friend confirmed he was donating his kidney to the coach. Gillis made national headlines earlier this year when the Vancouver peewee hockey team he coaches launched a viral video campaign to […]
The annual pace of housing starts picked up in March after a sharp slowdown in February, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Monday. The national housing agency said the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts climbed to 192,527 units in March, compared with 166,290 units in February. Economists on average had expected an annual […]
Carriage rides at a Saint-Eustache sugar shack have been temporarily halted after a video of a horse collapsing was widely shared on social media. The horse was pulling a carriage at the Cabane à Sucre Constantin when people said they started to notice that it was having trouble breathing. Related Anti-calèche demonstrators, horse carriage driver […]
In Wikipedia’s 18 years of existence, it has become a fixture in our lives: It ascends to the top of Google’s search results and provides answers to the questions we ask Alexa and Siri. For Wikipedia’s editing community, the website is even more. It is a kind of social network where users debate the minutiae […]
TORONTO – Ontario’s realtors say the province should end so-called “bully” offers that they say give some home buyers an unfair advantage. Ontario Real Estate Association President Karen Cox says the government should use its current review of the act that governs realtors in the province to bar the practice. So-called “bully” offers are submitted […]
TORONTO – Just five per cent of students on average per high school in Ontario are currently enrolled in online courses, and some have trouble learning so independently, says a report released Monday. The People for Education report on technology in schools comes shortly after the provincial government announced that all high school students will […]
I’m a pediatrician, and when I see adolescents in my clinic, I ask them if they are drinking alcohol (among other risky activities). Then I counsel them if they answer in the affirmative. I want young people to be safe. But doctors lack the evidence base — we don’t have enough studies — to know […]
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has defended the separation of migrant children from their parents at the border with Mexico, a measure that has faced increasing criticism. The “zero-tolerance” policy he announced last month sees adults who try to cross the border, many planning to seek asylum, being placed in custody and facing criminal prosecution […]
A high-level US delegation just returned from Ethiopia, which is arguably America’s closest ally on the continent of Africa. How did these two countries become so close? Journalist James Jeffrey explains. It’s noticeable soon after you land in Washington – the city is full of Ethiopians. Their ubiquitous presence – behind the counter at Starbucks […]
One of US President Donald Trump’s top aides has said that opposition Democrats will “never” see his tax returns. White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said the call for the records to be released was a “political stunt”. On Wednesday a Congressional tax committee submitted a request for six years of the president’s […]