A US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople has cut its links with tennis legend Martina Navratilova over comments she made about male-to-female transgender athletes. The 18-times Grand Slam winner wrote it was “cheating” to allow transgender women to compete in women’s sport as they had unfair physical advantages. Athlete Ally said the remarks were […]
When Hulan Jack won the Manhattan borough president’s race in 1953, newspapers across the country carried the news. It was the most powerful municipal office in the United States held by a black man — 10 years before Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington. While most white news outlets ran the news as a […]
A Halifax neighbourhood is organizing a tribute to the seven young people killed in a house fire, and are inviting the rest of the city, province and country, to take part by putting a teddy bear on their front porch. The children — ranging in age from four months to 14 years old — were […]
Montreal police are investigating an aggravated assault in Côte Saint-Luc that sent two men to hospital. Police found two men with injuries to their upper bodies in a parking lot at the intersection of Vézina Street and Coolbrook Avenue at about 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday. They were both taken to hospital. Manuel Couture, a police spokesperson, […]
City hall will get a glimpse of how London’s red light cameras are performing on Wednesday. The civic works committee will hear from an annual report that shows 2018 had a reduction in collisions, injuries and deaths at the 10 intersections red light cameras inhabit. The report also revealed more than 6,000 infractions were issued […]
A heavy contingent of the mayors from Waterloo region is in Ottawa on Wednesday to advocate for the area with federal ministers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The group met with Transportation Minister Marc Garneau and is also scheduled to meet with ministers or parliamentary secretaries of the following departments: Infrastructure and Communities; Innovation, Science […]
2019 marks the Lethbridge Public Library’s 100th anniversary, and the theme for their centennial celebration, in part, is to honour the years spent building a strong relationship with the Indigenous community. “I remember walking into their space and just seeing a table that outlined what Blackfoot territory is,” said Marcia Black Water, coordinator of Indigenous […]
It’s been over six weeks since Toronto musician Jeff Burke has seen his bassoon after he says it was taken early January, but on Tuesday it was found and he was reunited with his beloved instrument. On Jan. 5, Burke was at the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Bloor Street West, near Dovercourt Road, on […]
There are thousands of orphaned patients in Kingston right now, unable to find a family doctor. One reason is that the province has designated the city as a “non-high needs” area, because of Kingston’s hospitals and medical school. Colleen Jackson has been a patient at the Kingston Community Health Centres for 28 years, requiring regular […]
A convoy of hundreds of pro-pipeline supporters has reached Parliament Hill to protest the Liberal government’s energy and environmental policies. Premier Blaine Higgs joined his Conservative counterparts Saturday on a panel speaking out against Bill C-69. Also in attendance was Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer who is promising to scrap the controversial carbon tax if […]