Matthew Cuesta, a Toronto cycling enthusiast, has completed his mission to cycle 46 kilometres a day for 46 days to honour the life of George Floyd.
They aren't issues you'll hear discussed by leaders on the campaign trail, but candidates on the hustings here in Ottawa have made promises of a very local nature. Some of these local promises are drawn directly from a political party's national platform, to show how a 30,000-page election pledge would affect people on the ground in Ottawa. For example, Ottawa's New Democrat candidates say their party's affordable housing plan to build not-for-profit housing would translate into 20,000 new units
Despite no longer being able to play instruments, Nicole Edwards didn't let her disease stop her from creating music, her friend and collaborator Andrea McColeman says. "She was constantly creating stuff in her head, and she would sing it to me," said McColeman. "Not just, here's the song and here's the words, but here's all the parts, and here's how it should feel, and here's the beat. She had a clear vision of what she wanted to create and was really good at communicating." Edwards, a musician
Like many pickleball players before him, Pat Morrison's interest in the sport was sparked by asking a simple question: "What's that?" As he sat in a Halifax-area café sipping coffee with a friend eight years ago, he was told about a game that combines elements of tennis, table tennis and badminton. A few days later, he played for the first time. "The next day I was at the sporting goods store buying my first paddle," said Morrison, 64, now the vice-president of Pickleball Nova Scotia. "And the r
THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Crews were watching the weather this weekend as they battled California wildfires that have burned into some groves of gigantic ancient sequoias as they try to protect the world's largest tree. The National Weather Service issued a weather watch for critical fire conditions in the Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada, where the Colony Fire was burning about a mile from Giant Forest, a grove of 2,000 giant sequoias. Firefighters have wrapped the base of the Gener
From climate change to northern sovereignty to Indigenous rights, Canada's political parties all have something to say about the future of northern communities. We combed through each party's platform to dig out the promises that affect the North. Liberal Party The Liberal Party is pledging to put at least $300 million toward an urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing strategy. It will aim to end homelessness by building more affordable rental housing and fixing up units in disrepair. It is
This pandemic election has changed some things for those in Ottawa-Gatineau gearing up to vote in person on Monday. Advanced polls are over and the deadline for mail-in voting has passed, but those who did participate in early voting will change how fast some ridings see results. A record number of Canadians have already voted in this federal election with more than one million special ballots sent out by mail and millions more voting in advanced polls. Here are answers to some questions: 1. Do
Recent developments: Ottawa reported 65 more COVID-19 cases Saturday. What's the latest? Ontario officials are "having conversations right now" to determine what support the province can provide to help Alberta's crippled health-care system as it battles its deadly fourth wave of COVID-19. Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliott confirmed Ontario would be providing assistance to Alberta during a news conference on Friday. Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reported 65 more COVID-19 cases
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -New Zealand's abrupt decision to pull out of their cricket tour of Pakistan has created "an unfortunate scenario" but the hosts know how to overcome such crises, the chairman of the country's cricket board Ramiz Raja said on Saturday. New Zealand abandoned the tour on the day of the opening fixture on Friday citing a government security alert, while England are also reconsidering their men's and women's team visits to Pakistan next month. The tour was due to start with the first of three one-dayers in Rawalpindi but New Zealand did not travel to the stadium.
The main national party leaders' scheduled public appearances for Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. All times are local. _____ Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau Aurora, Ont. 9:00 a.m. -- Announcement and media availability to follow. Exact location not provided. _____ Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole Dundas, Ont. 10:30 a.m. -- Announcement and media availability. Campaign Office, 81 Highway 5. Kitchener, Ont. 7:00 p.m. -- Event with supporters. Crowne Plaza Kitchener-Waterloo, 105 King Street East. ____ NDP
Le « coup dans le dos » que l’Australie a porté à la France est lié à un besoin pressant de contrer l’hostilité grandissante de la Chine en s’appuyant sur une alliance de longue date avec Washington.
Toronto's Elie Shermer isn't sure if he's going to vote this year. He's only voted once before, years ago, and can't remember who he supported. But this year, he knows who he'll check off if he does end up at his polling place on Monday: the People's Party of Canada. "If I do, I'm thinking PPC," he told CBC Toronto. "They seem to align with how I feel the world is." That "if" represents a key unknown in the Greater Toronto Area's election results on Monday. The PPC, led by former Conservative ca
An ongoing shortage of school bus drivers across Ottawa is leaving parents scrambling to find other ways to get their children to class. The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA), which contracts local bus companies to provide school transportation, has already announced nearly 90 long-term route cancellations for the city's public and Catholic school boards. On Friday alone, OSTA cancelled transportation for routes serving students at six schools. "It's heartbreaking. It's literally he
Ask David McDonald and Kim Cormier who's getting the most out of their new friendship, and they'll both point to themselves. "I feel very blessed to have met David," Cormier said from her home in the Skeleton Park neighbourhood of Kingston, Ont. "I'm the blessed one," corrected McDonald, sitting beside her. It was a chance encounter this past July that brought them together. McDonald, 46, who's been intermittently homeless since 2016, was passing Cormier's house on his e-scooter earlier this sum
In a summer full of depressing travel news, Canada finally delivered Stewart Wingate, the CEO of London's Gatwick Airport, something he could celebrate. For the first time in almost a year, the blue star of Canada's third-largest carrier, Air Transat, was back at Gatwick as the airline resumed flights to the United Kingdom this week after a break during the pandemic. "To have the Air Transat planes back in the sky, it's incredibly important to us," Wingate told CBC in an interview from the rooft
Amazon has been advertising to hire full-time employees for a new warehouse it's expected to soon open in Dartmouth, N.S., but a labour advocate is concerned that the delivery of packages will still be left to subcontracted workers he says are exploited by the e-commerce giant. The company, which bought the site earlier this year in the Burnside industrial park, hasn't publicly commented on its plans, but has been posting jobs at the package sorting facility, known as a "delivery station." "When
Pundits and pollsters say the political landscape in the city of Ottawa won't change much in the 2021 federal election except for a few tight races. David Moscrop, an Ottawa-based author and Canadian columnist who writes for the Washington Post, says the city has "a handful of fairly interesting ridings, but nothing quite as dramatic as some others. Here are the races he and other pundits are monitoring the closest. Ottawa Centre Moscrop said Ottawa Centre will receive some attention due to its
When the COVID-19 vaccine was made available in the North, Jessica Deleary wasn't sure she was going to get it. "I was kind of hesitant, just because of the speed with which it was created," said the resident of Dettah, a First Nations community just outside Yellowknife. "[W]e don't know exactly what's inside [it] and we don't know what's going to happen, what the long-term side effects are. And those were real, real concerns for me, especially because I was expecting." The mother of five asked
Property developer China Evergrande Group is teetering on the brink of collapse, weighed down by a giant debt load and billions of dollars in real estate it can't sell as quickly or as profitably as anticipated. While trouble has been brewing for a year, it's coming to a head now, as the conglomerate missed one loan payment in June and more are expected. Evergrande's offices were the site of angry protests this week, and things could get even uglier on Monday when the company is likely to miss a
Nova Scotia's premier has clear, harsh words for the small group of people who recently protested outside the province's top doctor's home: "grow up." On Friday evening, Premier Tim Houston released a video message about a small protest outside the Fall River home of Dr. Robert Strang, the province's chief medical officer of health, earlier that day. "There isn't language harsh enough to condemn these actions," Houston said in the video. "I would encourage you all to grow up and think of others.
