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One late January afternoon, my wife, our one-year-old daughter and I were standing in front of the window of a suburban Calgary hotel, just staring at the snow and freezing weather outside, when the phone rang. It was my mother, calling from Islamabad. Even though she and my sister ...

Canada Day is Anne-Marie DeSouza’s favourite holiday — next to Christmas — which explained her festive getup, complete with Canadian flag-themed sunglasses, face paint, and red-and-white balloons in her hair. “My brother was laughing at me,” said DeSouza at Nathan Phillips Square, one of several Toronto locations with events ...

“We will not be silenced,” chanted several hundred protesters outside the Indian consulate in Vancouver on Saturday, waving signs with the face of murdered B.C. Sikh temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar and calling him a martyr for advocating for the right to self-determination for his people. Protesters mostly wore ...

After weeks of preparation, hundreds of guests had gathered for the party in the wedding hotel. Everyone seemed happy, music was echoing in the separate women’s-only hall and young girls were celebrating with joy and dance. An hour had passed when the young bride and groom entered, both in ...

The five-day search and rescue mission for a submersible carrying five people to the Titanic wreck came to a tragic close Thursday, as officials announced all aboard had died following a “catastrophic implosion.”While an investigation is already underway, authorities are looking for answers into what exactly happened to the ...

The five passengers trapped aboard the Titan, the OceanGate submersible, are dead, the U. S. Coast Guard said Thursday, after parts of the sub were discovered in a field of debris on the Atlantic Ocean floor, near the wreckage of the Titanic.Its occupants were believed to include British billionaire ...

Known as the Big Smoke, Toronto’s nickname was especially fitting on Tuesday.As forest fires raged in Quebec and northeastern Ontario, a yellow-tinted smoke settled upon Toronto. By evening, the city’s air quality ranked among the world’s worst, at times ahead of even Lahore, Pakistan, which was labelled the planet’s ...

CALGARY—It was seen as that most Canadian of tragedies — a tightknit hockey team on an icy highway, headed to a game, struck down when a tractor-trailer slammed into their bus. Five years on, the sorrow of that moment continues to balloon outward, swallowing up years and space. This ...

The head of an organization that promotes Russian ties with the West is facing allegations she conspired with and helped Russia’s main security agency spy on young western leaders, including Canadians, as part of an elaborate foreign influence operation.As Canada investigates suspicions about Chinese attempts to influence policy and ...

Another school year is underway in Afghanistan, but missing from classrooms across the country are girls and young women.It has now been more than 500 days since the Taliban banned female students first from secondary schools, then later from universities in August 2021.The Taliban have imprisoned the most famous ...