VANCOUVER—A young Calgary man says he was recently told he cannot play in the All Native Basketball tournament because he lacks the required aboriginal bloodlines, despite...
CALGARY—The Calgary Zoo says one of its North American river otters has died in the pool at the Canadian Wilds exhibit. The zoo says a keeper...
VANCOUVER—When Cheryl’s manager discovered the 38-year-old used to work in the sex trade, she says he joked that a name plate on her desk read “pubic...
WINNIPEG—A Winnipeg shopping mall has issued an apology to a decorated Manitoba war veteran and aboriginal elder who was told to get out last weekend. Joseph...
VANCOUVER—What struck Ulara Nakagawa when she first saw Japan’s oldest elephant was how she resembled a figurine in a “concrete prison.” “There was absolutely nothing else...
MONTREAL—It’s universally accepted that parents want to die before their children, but outliving Cecilia Laurent has proven difficult. Laurent is believed to have turned 120 on...
OTTAWA—It’s difficult to imagine the scale of the trauma, the wartime anxiety, the shock, the anger, that would have engulfed the nation 100 years ago when...
MCBRIDE, B.C.—The day after a colossal avalanche killed five snowmobilers in eastern British Columbia, Thea Pelletier climbed aboard her machine and returned to the backcountry wilderness....
TORONTO—Broaching the subject of puberty can be nerve-racking for parents and embarrassing for kids, but Nickolay Lamm is hoping to help smooth the process with an...
Filipino-American Maria Torres-Springer has been appointed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as the city’s succeeding Economic Development Corporation (EDC) president. “Maria has a...