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A bakery owner in Ponoka, Alta. says a Pride flag in her store window has become the cause of conflict between her and her landlords. If she wants to keep her Pride flag up, she may have to do so at a new store. Sarah Kumar has been baking cakes …
Read More »Halifax drivers told to ‘stay off the roads’ as flooding causes significant damage
Halifax residents were being told to avoid driving on Saturday as flash flooding caused by heavy rains resulted in a significant amount of road damage throughout the municipality and across the province. In an 8 a.m. release from the Halifax Regional Municipality, it was noted that numerous areas were washed …
Read More »Some Hamilton residents told to close windows amid smoke from waste facility fire
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Firefighters will be on the scene of an industrial fire in Hamilton throughout Sunday, the local fire chief says. Around 7 a.m. on Father’s Day, firefighters were called to an industrial building on Gage Avenue North, near Burlington Street East, to respond …
Read More »Bitcoin scam: Victim faced with excuses, told to pay large fees when trying to withdraw funds – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A victim in a cryptocurrency scam who invested $400,000 was faced with multiple excuses and told to pay large fees when attempting to withdraw the funds, Toronto police say. In a news release issued Tuesday, police said officers were able to recover …
Read More »U.S. midterms won’t weaken Washington’s support for Ukraine, conference told
A major international security conference started Friday in Halifax with repeated reassurances that the results of the U.S. midterm elections won’t mean a major shift in U.S. support for Ukraine. U.S. New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen told the opening panel at the Halifax International Security Forum that there’s clear …
Read More »These Calgarians say TikTok told them they had ADHD — turns out, they do
In March of 2020, a recently laid off Ellyce Fulmore found herself doing what a lot of people were doing — scrolling through TikTok — when she started to see a lot of content she unexpectedly related to. “It was a lot of content about ADHD and it made me …
Read More »Witness at outgoing Surrey mayor’s trial testifies she told him she would be the one ‘that brought him down’
The woman who Doug McCallum allegedly falsely accused of vehicular assault claims she told the outgoing Surrey mayor he was “evil” and that she “was going to be the bitch that brought him down.” Debi Johnstone recalled the words as she took the stand on the opening day of McCallum’s public mischief …
Read More »Manitoba RCMP officer appeared frustrated before allegedly assaulting bar patron, court told
The trial of an RCMP officer accused of assaulting a man outside a Thompson, Man., hotel bar opened on Monday with a witness saying the first arriving officer was agitated by police regularly being called to the same establishment. “He just said, ‘Why is there no … security here?’ He said, …
Read More »He worked for the Canadian embassy in Afghanistan. Now, he’s being told to move into a shelter
Before life as he knew it turned upside down with the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Mohammad Fahim Rahmani worked with the Canadian embassy. Now, he’s being told to pack his things, move to a Toronto shelter and apply for social assistance. That’s because, nearly a year after he set foot in …
Read More »My eating disorder told me fat was bad. Healing taught me to accept my body
This First Person column is written by Karli Jahn, a master’s student at Athabasca University who is writing her thesis on weight stigma in counselling interventions. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. “Are you sure you have an eating disorder?” the doctor asked me. …
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