In April, the Hamilton Center for Civic Inclusion will launch an online platform for people to report hate crimes Community leaders who got together on Tuesday for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said that Hamilton has a long way to go in its fight against racism and hate. “Today, local community…
The city zoo and an advocacy group agree that a 47-year-old man is not fit to travel. Set the Wild Fre A recent medical exam found that 47-year-old Asian elephant Lucy at the Edmonton Valley Zoo can only breathe through her mouth and is not fit to travel. The problem with Lucy’s breathing is worse…
Devin Edmiston had been in the penalty box of the outdoor ice rink for too long. He had been sleeping there for a few nights and knew that if huddling together for warmth in a trash can was the best place he could find, he couldn’t handle life on his own anymore. “Something inside me…
This week, students from Mistissini are competing at the provincial Indigenous science fair A group of elementary school students in northern Quebec did a science project that brought attention to a possible problem with the water in their school. It has also sent the students south so they can compete with their project, “Water: the…
Darcy Fleury, who used to work for the RCMP in Edmonton, will become the new chief of police in Thunder Bay on April 17 The Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) has named an RCMP commander from Edmonton to take over a troubled police force in northwest Ontario that has been in the middle of several…
One more person in Ottawa has died from COVID Recent developments: After reaching levels not seen since January, some of Ottawa’s COVID-19 indicators are starting to go down. In Ottawa, one more person with COVID has passed away. The latest  After a few weeks of staying the same, some of Ottawa’s COVID-19 trends went up…
Staff remain in hospital in serious but stable condition, police sa A 15-year-old student at Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford, N.S., has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, after two staff members were stabbed at the school on Monday morning. Halifax Regional Police say that two people who work at the…
Service For economic reasons, New Brunswick recently decided to take back $3.5 million of a $3.7 million assessment increase it had given to J.D. Irving Ltd.’s Saint John paper mill in 2021. This is the third major reduction in the facility’s value from the agency in the last ten years. The provincial body isn’t saying…
Teachers have to deal with a lack of skills, broken instruments, and fewer students who want to study music Jewel Casselman, a music teacher in Winnipeg, is back in her element. After three years of pandemic restrictions and changed lessons, she is leading elementary school students in songs and teaching them how to play musical…
Attackers, according to the victim’s supporters, took his turban and pulled him by his hair People from Kelowna, British Columbia’s Sikh community want an attack on a young international student to be looked into as a hate crime. A group of people allegedly punched and kicked the student at a bus stop and tore off…