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Ryan Smolkin, the Ontario entrepreneur best known for founding Smoke’s Poutinerie who passed away Sunday, will be honoured in Ottawa this week. Mark Cunningham, the company’s chief operating officer and Smolkin’s successor, said there has been an outpouring of love and support from people across the country following the news …

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 31, 2023 7:30 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A young Black woman who resisted her own enslavement in Queenston, Upper Canada, in the late 18th century is being honoured by Canada Post. The Chloe Cooley commemorative stamp features an …

Mounties are paying tribute to one of their own Wednesday with a regimental funeral service honouring a British Columbian RCMP officer killed on the job last month. Const. Shaelyn Yang, 31, a homeless and mental health outreach officer, was fatally stabbed while responding to a call about a man in a tent in a park …

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. One hundred years ago, the former chief medical health inspector of what was then known as Canada’s Indian Affairs department walked through the doors of a publishing house in Ottawa. He carried a manuscript called A National Crime. It was published in 1922 detailing the appalling and …

A founder of the Brackendale Art Gallery and its annual eagle festival and count is being honoured with a mural in downtown Squamish, B.C.  On July 4, renowned Montreal-based muralist Kevin Ledo completed his work dedicated to Thor Froslev, who established the gallery almost 50 years ago. The mural, which is painted …