Category Archives: Human Interest
Pandemic pares back pomp of Mary Simon’s installation ceremony as governor general
OTTAWA — When Mary Simon walks into the Senate on Monday to be installed as the country's next governor general, she will find the upper chamber sparsely populated. The installation ceremonies for Simon's predecessors have attracted hundreds of people ...
Salt for sore eyes: harbour salt pile blocks some of the best views in St. John’s
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Matt Idnurm likes to spend the early summer months watching the marine life off St. John's harbour from his first-floor balcony on Water Street downtown. "I sit out here with my binoculars and I watch the whales
‘I have to do my part’: Canadians across the country walking for a cause and to heal
By putting one foot in front of the other, sometimes slowly and sometimes with quicker strides, Bilal Malik says he desperately hopes the government will listen to what he has to say. The 36-year-old is nearing the end of a roughly
‘I plan on being Cadmus through and through’: Getting to know Chief Cadmus Delorme
Chief Cadmus Delorme's childhood home was less than 200 metres from the Cowessess First Nation's band office. The building was a familiar place for the family. It's where patriarch Bruce Delorme worked as an elected councillor off and on until
New Brunswick cities scrap Canada Day events over graves found at residential schools
It will be a quiet Canada Day across much of New Brunswick after several communities cancelled celebrations in light of the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Fredericton, Bathur...
‘They made us believe we didn’t have souls:’ Marieval residential school survivor
A Cowessess First Nation elder is recalling the abusive and dehumanizing experiences she had while attending a residential school in Saskatchewan as news of the hundreds of unmarked graves found at the site rippled around the world. Florence Sparvier, ...
‘We always knew:’ Reactions to 751 unmarked graves detected at residential school
Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says ground-penetrating radar has found 751 unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School site, about 150 kilometres east of Regina. It came a month after Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation sai...
First Nation to hold news conference about discovery of ‘hundreds of unmarked graves’
REGINA — A First Nation in southern Saskatchewan is to hold a virtual news conference Thursday morning about what it calls "the horrific and shocking discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves" at the site of a former residential school. The Cowessess
Tourism task force calls on Ontario to incentivize local travel with points card, ads
Ontario can jumpstart its flagging tourism sector by incentivizing travel with discount cards and ad campaigns, a government task force recommended Wednesday. The Tourism Economic Recovery Ministerial Task Force, set up after the release of this year'...
B.C. official condemns threats of violence against anti-racism rally organizers
VICTORIA — A British Columbia official whose job it is to tackle racism is condemning threats of violence that led to the postponement of an anti-racism rally on Vancouver Island over the weekend. Rachna Singh, parliamentary secretary for anti-racism ...