The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, will visit Canada next week to discuss efforts to protect human rights and promote gender equality around the world, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Tuesday. During her four-day visit the former two-term Chilean president will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,…...إقرأالمزيد

It’s a case of alleged sexual abuse going back as much as 40 years ago and involves one of Catholicism’s iconic institutions in Canada, the St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal The Supreme Court of Canada in a 5-4 decision has upheld a Quebec Court of Appeal ruling which said the Oratory should not be excluded from a sex assault class…...إقرأالمزيد

It was one of those nightmare scenarios that every family fears to the very roots of its collective bones. Elderly parents, strangers in a strange land with no knowledge of English, get marooned in an airport, abandoned and terrified while a waiting family has no idea where they are. Happened in February in Vancouver. Chhaya and Narayan Karki, aged…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada’s navy and air force will soon begin regular deployments to help enforce United Nations sanctions against North Korea. The announcement came Monday following a meeting in Tokyo between Canada’s minister of defence, Harjit Sajjan, and his Japanese counterpart, Takeski Iwaya. The missions off North Korea will take place periodically…...إقرأالمزيد

If you’re a Canadian veteran of the Second World War, or a family member or someone who’s gone on pilgrimages to the battle sites and cemeteries of WWII, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) wants hear and record your story. It’s all for a unique online audio project called Voices of Liberation created to mark the…...إقرأالمزيد

The Biosphere, an environmental museum in Montreal, aims to raise awareness about the environment and climate change in its programming for 2019-2020. The museum purports to be the only one in North America entirely dedicated to these two themes. It promises admission will be free of charge during Canadian Environment Week from June 2 to 8, 2019. There…...إقرأالمزيد

There are much bigger cities in the U.S. than Canada’s biggest city, Toronto.  But that hasn’t stopped Toronto being the fastest growing city on the continent, and by a wide margin. It’s also the second fastest growing urban region in the study on the 12 month period from July 1, 2017 to July 1 2018. The study was released today…...إقرأالمزيد

Canada is temporarily closing its embassy in Venezuela effective immediately, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. Canada is among a group of mostly Western countries that have refused to recognize the legitimacy of Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro and have instead recognized the self-proclaimed president and…...إقرأالمزيد

It is commonly recommended that people walk 10,000 steps a day for good health, but a new study suggests older women don’t need that much to lower their mortality rate. It’s not clear how the goal was set. McGill University’s Office for Science and Society suggests a Japanese company introduced a new step-counter in 1965…...إقرأالمزيد

The murders and disappearances of thousands of Indigenous women and girls across Canada in recent decades constitute “acts of genocide,” according to the final report of the national inquiry into the ongoing tragedy presented Monday to the federal government during an emotional ceremony in Gatineau, Quebec. The two volume report, presented…...إقرأالمزيد