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This First Person column is written by Melissa MacMillan, who lives in Sudbury, Ont. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. When I got sober in 2021, I thought the hardest part would be staying clean. It wasn’t. The hardest part was learning how …
Read More »As social habits evolve, we sought to learn how people are making friends
Heather Steele and Taylor Moore both moved to Calgary several years ago. Steele came from Ireland, while Moore moved from Manitoba. Steele knew no one in Calgary, while Moore had a couple of acquaintances. Wanting to make friends, they downloaded an app called Bumble BFF, which pairs people up who …
Read More »Standing up to bullies: Lithuania’s playbook for surviving economic warfare, and what Canada can learn
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. There was a point in time, not so very long ago, when Lithuania was considered the …
Read More »Thunder Bay, Ont., family who took fight for girl’s autism funding to court to learn if it was worth it
In one week, Patrick Cully will find out whether his five-year-old daughter Scarlet will be able to continue the life-changing therapy she’s relied on for more than a year — or if long waitlists and a lack of funding will halt her progress. On June 23, the Federal Court ordered Indigenous …
Read More »Orcas might be trying to learn ‘who we are’ when they share prey with humans, study suggests
Jared Towers was in his research vessel on two separate occasions watching killer whales off the coast of Vancouver Island when the orcas dropped their prey directly in front of him and his colleagues. The encounters he describes as “rare” and awe-inspiring have led to a new study published in …
Read More »Brothers who gave $50K for palliative care room at nursing home learn tough lesson
The moment brothers Alan and Glenn von Weiler saw the palliative care room at their father’s former nursing home — created in his memory — was one for the books, they say. “I think my dad would have been so happy,” Glenn said. “My dad believed in giving back to the community. …
Read More »In Antarctica, Canadian scientists have a ‘momentous’ chance to learn more about climate change
In the middle of an active volcano at the bottom of the world, dozens of fur seals bask in blowing wet snow. They are mostly unfussed by their two-legged guests. Around them lie cockeyed iron tanks and wooden boats from an early 20th-century whaling settlement, so weathered they’re nearly absorbed …
Read More »As gridlock grinds Toronto to a halt, here’s what the city could learn from Seattle’s traffic cameras
“I’ve seen it where it’s four light cycles and not one car moves an inch.” Sound familiar, Toronto? As it happens, Officer Eric Daylong isn’t describing traffic in Canada’s largest city. Instead, he’s talking about how blocking an intersection can impact congestion in Seattle, where he works for the police department’s …
Read More »‘My world stopped’: What it’s like to learn you have cancer from a message on your phone
When Beth Marchant opened the email announcing that her ultrasound results were ready, the then-32-year-old was floored to discover it contained a breast cancer diagnosis. “I saw the word carcinoma,” Marchant said in an interview in her home in Cambridge, Ont. “In an email — that’s not how you want …
Read More »‘Lead with culture’: Indigenous youth share how they learn from doing so
What does it mean to lead with culture? It’s something both Ferrada Lightning, a 26-year-old from Maskwacis, Alta. and Megan Metz a 24-year-old from Kitimat, B.C. do every day. “When we come back to culture, we come back to reconnecting with our ancestors wisdom, their strength and the connection of …
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