Frustration and disgust at the recent blockades and encampments in Ottawa and elsewhere may be the final straw for truck drivers like Nihal Singh, atop concerns ranging from wages and road safety to social isolation and exhausting working conditions.Trucks and other vehicles clog Memorial Boulevard in Winnipeg during a protest against COVID-19 restrictions. South Asian…
Everything Joanna Kanga does is about ‘shifting the narrative,’ helping Montrealers see past financial and cultural barriers to recognize themselves in others.Joanna Kanga is a 2022 Black Changemaker. (Cassandra Leslie/Ciel Photo)CBC Quebec is highlighting people from the province’s Black communities who are giving back, inspiring others and helping to shape our future. These are the…
‘Not Wordle – Gitksan’ is modelled after the popular online game — but features words in Gitxsanimx, the language of the Gitxsan Nation in northwestern B.C.Gitxsan Hereditary Chief Sim’oo’git Geel (Catherine Blackstock) plays Not Wordle – Gitksan, a Wordle clone for Gitxsanimx, the language of Gitxsan Nation. (Ben Nelms/CBC)Every day, Gitxsan Hereditary Chief Sim’oo’git Geel…
A Walmart customer says the company left him in the lurch after someone got into his online account and went on a shopping spree. He says he warned Walmart there was a problem, but after one of the orders was delivered to the fraudster, the retailer told the customer he was on his own to…
Hector King Jr. says he was told a man that looks, dresses and rides a bike like him had been stealing, and Giant Tiger had issued a no-trespass notice against him. He believes he was racially profiled. “That kind of degraded me, you know?” King says.Hector King Jr., 62, who is Anishinaabe, says he was…
After being kept out of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees, Canada’s sleeping car porters formed the first Black labour union in North America. A new drama series airing on CBC and BET, The Porter, features the history of the primarily Black sleeping car porters in the 1920s.Ensley Gabriel, a former porter, used to frequent…
Vancouver police’s homicide unit is investigating after the bodies of two women were found shot dead in a vehicle in the upscale neighbourhood on Sunday.Vancouver police investigators examine a white BMW at the scene of what a spokesperson called a ‘very serious incident’ Sunday on the city’s west side. Police later confirmed two women were…
For the seven Indian migrants who survived walking over the border from southern Manitoba into the United States last month, there could still be a difficult journey ahead, advocates say.A snowy Manitoba field near the Canada-U.S. border is pictured. Last month, seven Indian migrants were detained by U.S. officials after crossing on foot. A family…
Four people died and two escaped a fire that destroyed a home in Auburndale, N.S., Saturday morning.Kaylea Savory with her boys Harley, left, and Hendrix, right. All three died in a house fire in Auburndale, N.S., on Feb. 19, 2022. (Submitted by James Stewart)A fire on Nova Scotia’s South Shore razed a house and killed…
Officers on horseback rode down Rideau Street in Ottawa late Friday afternoon, leading to two people being knocked over — and a persistent yet false social media rumour that one woman had been trampled to death. But later, the Special Investigations Unit said a woman reported being seriously injured by an officer on horseback.Police clear protesters…