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Mian Khalid Jan has watched in agony as devastating floods raged through his home province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. For 24 hours he couldn’t sleep, eat, or work. Jan is in Calgary, but much of his family, including his brother and sister, are among hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis who have been …

Emergency officials have ordered all residents to evacuate from the B.C. community of Olalla, about 40 kilometres southwest of Penticton, due to the Keremeos Creek wildfire. The unincorporated town, with a population of more than 400, was put under full evacuation orders Thursday afternoon, affecting roughly 200 properties, around 5 p.m. …

TikTok was not exactly the first choice for Michael DeRosenroll when considering how to reach people to inform them about human rights law. “But when I looked into it, I started specifically looking at how other lawyers are using TikTok,” the St. Albert-based lawyer said.  “I thought I could … tell entertaining …

The small Vancouver Island community of Duncan is struggling to find housing solutions for people who live in RVs as some of them face tripling rent increases and restrictions on where to park. While recreational vehicles are generally more affordable places to live, they are subject to city bylaws across the …

Neqotkuk First Nation has announced its intention to make Wolastoqey the official language of the community in northwestern New Brunswick. Chief Ross Perley and the band council passed a resolution to recognize Wolastoqey as the original language of the territory and establish it as the official language of the community, according to a news …

Hundreds of people gathered at the grand opening of the Journey to Freedom Park in southeast Calgary on Friday. The park, which has been under construction since April 2021, was built to honour the journey of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who fled to Canada after the fall of Saigon in 1975.  Tu …

Chance Paupanekis credits much of his well-being to learning his traditional language. Paupanekis, who is from the Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, is studying Ininimowin — a Cree language that has five major dialects, according to Indigenous Languages of Manitoba. Language is more than just words in his culture, says Paupanekis — one of three people …

A group of middle-school students in Winnipeg came across a dead body in a field during a class exercise on Friday. Pembina Trails School Division superintendent Ted Fransen said students involved in a community cleanup day at École South Pointe School were doing service education when they came across the body in a …

David Hawkins wasn’t alive during the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, but decades later, his organization is still working on dispelling harmful myths associated with the disease.  “All these years later, it is still seen as being the gay disease, and it’s stuff like that that people still point …

By Shreyans Mehta In the past two decades, technology has taken every business sector to newer heights. It has impacted the lives of millions of people and many industries have embraced its potential in automating their business processes. Similarly, the healthcare sector has also adopted progressive technology models to redefine …