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In an apartment full of fabric and boxes, Bola Adesiyan gets ready for her runway show at African Fashion Week. The 26 year-old fashion designer’s new collection is inspired by the personal stories of her models, who speak about wanting to be free and authentic. “It’s their story line — you don’t have to …
Read More »‘Come together and celebrate’: Calgary Pride Week kicks off Saturday
Calgary Pride Week officially kicks off Saturday with performances, drag events and celebration of the city’s LGBT community. The day gets going at 11 a.m. at Central Memorial Park in the city’s Beltline neighbourhood. Brit Nickerson, manager of communications for Calgary Pride, says the location has special significance. It’s where the first …
Read More »B.C. judge lambastes conservation group for using protesters as ‘cannon fodder’
A B.C. provincial court judge has accused a conservation group of using frontline protesters as “sacrificial lambs” to mount illegal traffic blockades aimed at drawing attention to their climate change agenda by stirring up chaos. In a searing decision, Judge Laura Bakan gave a conditional sentence to a 30-year-old who took part earlier this year in …
Read More »How Ottawa plans to launch a climate-friendly construction boom
Seven years after construction started, a 34-acre plot of once-contaminated industrial land in the middle of the Ottawa River is being celebrated as the most sustainable community in Canada. The master-planned development between downtown Ottawa and Gatineau, Que. uses post-industrial waste to heat homes and businesses in winter and the river itself …
Read More »The polar bear became an ‘accidental icon’ of climate change. Is it time to rethink that?
Biologist Andrew Derocher wasn’t thinking of climate change when he first started studying polar bears in Hudson Bay in the 1980s. About a decade into his career, a picture started to emerge: as sea ice diminished due to human-caused global warming, the polar bears he was studying were venturing onto …
Read More »Deaths from flooding in Pakistan’s monsoon season near 1,000
Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June, officials said Saturday. The new death toll came a day after Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the …
Read More »Woman dead, 15 injured after multi-vehicle collision in Brampton
Peel Regional Police are investigating after a multi-vehicle collision in Brampton killed one woman and left 15 others injured. Police say 10 cars and a tractor trailer were involved in the collision shortly after midnight on Saturday morning near the intersection of Queen Street and The Gore Road. As a …
Read More »Chinese seniors left behind as many Chinese-language newspapers stop printing across Canada
As the world came to a standstill two years ago, they sat unread on dusty newsstands in empty restaurants and grocery stores. Chinese-language newspapers, vital to the community, became largely inaccessible during the pandemic as people were restricted from visiting the places where they were distributed. It’s part of why …
Read More »Meet the B.C. man who swims to work
Some people walk to work, some take the bus or a train and a few might even take a ferry. Many drive to work, often in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Brent Hobbs of Kelowna, B.C., swims. He makes his way along the shore of Okanagan Lake to work twice a week, about 1.8 kilometres. He …
Read More »Conservatives call for release of report on massive Afghan immigration data breach
The Conservative Party has written to Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne asking him to speed up his investigation of a federal government data breach that exposed the identities of hundreds of Afghans seeking Canada’s help to escape from the Taliban in October 2021. Dufresne announced on November 15 of last year …
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