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They’re an unlikely pair, the two of them. One a 26-year-old Egyptian fighter, the other a little boy. They spar with each other, practise using a balance ball, and work out, all while Ethan Shaw gives Hady Ghoneim a rundown on his life. “I feel so good, I feel like a new person,” …
Read More »Rare ‘triple-dip’ La Niña could mean a wild winter ahead for Western Canada
CBC Alberta and Saskatchewan have teamed up for a new pilot series on weather and climate change on the prairies. Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga will bring her expert voice to the conversation to help explain weather phenomena and climate change and how it impacts everyday life. Our climate has been steadily …
Read More »Canada and Denmark reach deal to divide uninhabited Arctic island
Canada and Denmark have reached an agreement to divide a tiny uninhabited island in the Arctic, ending a nearly 50-year-long international dispute between two friendly countries. The Canadian government posted an order-in-council this week confirming the Hans Island deal. The government plans to announce the details Tuesday. Martin Breum, a Copenhagen …
Read More »Oil prices are rising, but Canada is getting comparatively less for every barrel — here’s why
Oil prices around the world have risen to their highest levels in years, but Canadian oilsands producers are seeing comparatively less for every barrel because of imbalances in supply and demand. The benchmark North American oil price, a crude blend known as West Texas Intermediate or WTI, was changing hands …
Read More »Canada Soccer boots golden financial opportunity with failed matches
Up until a month ago, everything seemed to be going right for Canada Soccer. The national women’s squad is the defending Olympic champion, the men’s team had clinched its first World Cup appearance since 1986 and the country was preparing to be co-host of the men’s World Cup in 2026. …
Read More »Facing up to a ‘polycrisis’ that the Bank of Canada may not have the tools to fix
The word “polycrisis” has been used before to describe an intersection of troubling economic and political events, but Jacqueline Best suggests we are living through an episode that may really warrant the designation. As the Bank of Canada struggled this week to quell anger at soaring prices with a half-point …
Read More »As the U.K. brings back imperial measurements, is it time for Canada to drop them?
For more than 50 years, Canada’s dual system for measuring things has been a source of confusion for tradespeople, crafters, newcomers and anyone who’s ever been asked for their weight in kilos. Why, for instance, are outdoor temperatures measured in Celsius — until you get into a pool? Why do we order our …
Read More »Bank of Canada all but certain to raise lending rates this week — with more hikes to come
The Bank of Canada is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point on Wednesday, a move designed to rein in inflation, running at its highest level in decades. There’s a virtually unanimous view among economists that the bank will move its benchmark lending rate to 1.5 …
Read More »Ronnie Hawkins, musician who called Canada home and mentored the Band, dead at 87
Ronnie Hawkins, the big, boisterous Southern rockabilly singer who called Canada home and helped mentor the first band from this country inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. His wife, Wanda, confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after a long illness at …
Read More »Police encounter people with pellet guns ‘with regularity across Canada,’ criminologist says
Investigators probing the fatal police shooting of a man in Toronto Thursday will have to factor in the recent mass murder at a school in Texas, and also encounters Canadian police have with people carrying pellet guns that look like the real thing, a criminologist says. Encounters with weapons that appear lethal but aren’t “occur with regularity …
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