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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 ...

Two decades after Dalton McGuinty led the Ontario Liberals to power and launched a 15-year dynasty, the Grits are in the pits.The Liberals have badly lost consecutive elections to Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives, failing twice to win even enough seats for official party status in the legislature.A recent ...

The tip was like an answer to their prayers so it was fitting, perhaps, that they heard it through their church.Byung Hun Kim and Dong Sook Youk moved to Canada in 2009 with hopes of opening a small business and after two years of searching, a friend from their ...

A former Afghan platoon commander says he was doing manual labour on the Iranian island of Kish when he received a phone call. He says he listened carefully as a former comrade made a proposal: Join a new army and fight for a new cause. That army was Russia’s, ...

They didn’t stand a chance.Sean Petrie left a trail of three deaths, multiple serious injuries and several terrorized witnesses in his wake as he drove from Mississauga to Milton to Hamilton where he was shot dead in an “exchange of gunfire” with police.Why the 40-year-old gunman went on his ...

Polio, an infectious disease that was eradicated in Canada nearly three decades ago, has re-emerged in some Western nations despite widely available and effective vaccines against the illness.And although Canadians are largely vaccinated against the disease that can cause paralysis or death, the disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic that ...

For four years straight, Dr. Makini McGuire-Brown has applied to get one of the limited residency spots in Canada for internationally-trained doctors.And each year, the Toronto resident has been turned down, a refusal which means she can’t get the Canadian clinical experience she needs to get licensed in Ontario.“It’s ...

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 ...

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 dead ship left for the scrapyards of Turkey in gale-force winds.A tugboat named Hellas dragged the MV Miner, a retired Great Lakes freighter, from the Port of Montreal into the rough seas off eastern Canada. But the tow line broke, turning the dead vessel into a ghost ship.Untethered, ...