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VANCOUVER—At the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, Indigenous Elders Al Houston and Travis Angus are taking centre stage.The pair walk into the full meeting room and smudge it, with the ritual burning of sacred plants.“If we’re going to listen to one another, we’re going to be able to keep going ...

It’s hard to believe it was only four years ago when a Swedish teenager skipped school for the environment and inspired millions around the world to do the same. But for many of the kids who followed in Greta Thunberg’s footsteps, the past four years have not flown by.Instead, ...

LONDON, Ont.—The Afzaal family’s garden came to life this spring with lush hostas and other perennials popping. But their usually impeccable lawn is in need of a trim, and absent from the flower beds are the annuals that would normally bring colour this time of the year. Planted out ...

When Manmeet Kaur applied to sponsor her newlywed husband to come from India to join her in Canada, it seemed like a no-brainer to submit the application online rather than to send the paperwork by courier.Electronic application through new government portals was supposed to be faster and keep important ...

As the nine-year-old boy was shoved and pushed by the sea of desperate people behind him, his head kept turning, looking back for his parents and two younger brothers as they fell further and further behind him.When Hadisullhaq Afghanfar finally got past the front gate of the Kabul airport ...

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.12:41 p.m. With masks becoming optional in most public settings, Monday, Ontario students are staging a walkout across the province, calling for mandates to ...

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.10:15 a.m. Ontario is reporting 834 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, 267 in ICU and 19 new deaths due to the virus. There are ...

He spent two years working alongside Canadian soldiers in Kandahar as an interpreter and a food-supply contractor.Weeks before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, the 34-year-old man had already applied to Ottawa’s special programs to resettle former Afghan interpreters and locally engaged staff to Canada. The Department of ...

Pakistani entrepreneur Nazakat Nawaz had the money, so the process of moving to Quebec as an investor to start a new life in Canada seemed straightforward.The province wanted net assets of $1.2 million, two years of management experience and a five-year, interest-free investment of $800,000 entrusted with the province. ...

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.10 a.m. With his medical exemption approved, Novak Djokovic may have some explaining to do when he gets to Melbourne to defend his Australian ...