Years before the hit series Yellowstone made it famous, Salisbury’s Grace Johnston was hooked on barrel racing. Now 17, she’s headed to the world championships in the U.S.Grace Johnston and her horse, Katie, will compete in the world barrel-racing championships in Georgia in October. (Submitted by Grace Johnston)Grace Johnston isn’t afraid of a little dirt…
Green Party of Canada MP Elizabeth May says she has tested positive for COVID-19. She says the illness is “no joke,” and that this is no time for people to be in crowded indoor spaces.Canada’s Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May speaks in the House of Commons in Ottawa on April 11, 2020. (Blair Gable/Reuters)Green…
It’s no April Fools’ joke. Some Peterborough, Ont., students are out searching for sasquatch. They’ve even formed an official student club.The Trent University Sasquatch Society is an official student club devoted to researching, learning and finding sasquatch around Peterborough, Ont. ‘Squatchers’ Allison Adam, left, president Ryan Willis, centre, and Sabrina Marie, strike a Bigfoot pose…
On Friday the B.C. government announced additional temporary protections for more of the province’s iconic old-growth trees.Light shines through a forest of old-growth trees in Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew B.C. on Vancouver Island. (Chris Corday/CBC)The B.C. government announced additional temporary measures on Friday to protect the province’s iconic old-growth trees that can live for hundreds of years and…
After a difficult two years when Ramadan celebrations were forced online or severely curtailed because of pandemic restrictions, Muslims in Canada are preparing for a return to the kind of holy month they’ve long cherished — one that will mean much more this year now that they can once again be together.At the Islamic Society of…
Raymond, a close-knit agricultural community about 250 kilometres southeast of Calgary, has been dry since it was founded in 1903. These days, you can drink in town, but you just can’t purchase alcohol there — yet.Sheva Whitehead, left, lives in Raymond and wants to see it grow to embrace serving alcohol in restaurants in town. Raymond…
A new course partnership between Salisbury’s J.M.A. Armstrong High School and MFC Training gives students a chance to take flight – and take the controls.Students in a new aviation course at J.M.A Armstrong High School in Salisbury went up on a plane at the Moncton Flight College. (Alexandre Silberman/CBC)Pilot Tim Holt guided a group of…
Canada submitted its response last month to a United Nations committee after Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia asked the international body to investigate violence against Mi’kmaw fishers during the “moderate livelihood” lobster fishery in the fall of 2020. Mi’kmaw fishing boats are shown tied up at the Saulnierville wharf in southwest Nova Scotia on Oct…
The federal government has committed a total of $2.5 million for businesses impacted by the Ambassador Bridge blockade that shuttered the trade corridor between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit for nearly a week in February. Windsor, Ont., Mayor Drew Dilkens, left, joined Windsor-Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmierczyk, centre, and Stephen MacKenzie, CEO of Invest WindsorEssex, as the MP…
Members of the Red Chamber have been hit by a wave of questionable correspondence from Canadians convinced that a pending Senate bill would take away their pensions and lead to some sort of totalitarian world government.People participate in a demonstration in Montreal protesting measures implemented by the Quebec government to help stop the spread of…
