Allan Schoenborn has been granted the extended leave he was seeking from the psychiatric hospital where he was committed after being found not criminally responsible for killing his three children in Merritt, B.C. in 2008.Allan Schoenborn is shown in this artist’s sketch attending a British Columbia Review Board hearing in Coquitlam, B.C. in 2020. (Felicity Don/The Canadian…
According to the B.C. Coroners Service, the 207 deaths is the third highest ever recorded in the province in a calendar month, an average of more than six deaths per day.Moms Stop the Harm advocates walk down Hastings Street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in April 2021 to mark five years since a public health emergency…
Ontario has removed more than 400 deaths from its official COVID-19 count after further analysis revealed the causes of those deaths weren’t related to the disease.A nurse attends to a COVID-19 positive patient in the Humber River Hospital intensive care unit on Jan. 13, 2022. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)Ontario has removed more than 400 deaths from its…
The higher fuel prices seen in recent weeks are impacting all Canadians, but particularly those who need to use their cars for work, such as delivery drivers, cleaners and personal support workers.People who deliver food or clean houses and offices say higher gas prices are eating into how much they can earn. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)Everything seems…
A year and a half after the province pledged to dramatically change how B.C.’s old-growth trees were logged, conservationists and First Nations say action on the issue is lagging and details about what is being done are obscure.Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Ian Illuminato stands beside an old-growth red cedar in an approved cutblock in Uchucklesaht and…
Latoya Martin and her husband Christie Young were asleep when the fire started after midnight, and woke to the sound of beeping, heavy billowing smoke and flames. They say it’s a ‘miracle’ all 11 family members escaped.The family escaped the fire with just the pyjamas they were wearing — no shoes or socks. (Steve Bruce/CBC)A…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accepted an invitation to address the House of Commons just a few days after delivering an address to the British House of Commons.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to address Canada’s House of Commons next week. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accepted an invitation to address the House of Commons just…
First Nations leaders in northern Ontario are calling for the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) to be disbanded and subject to provincial oversight, with a Nishnawbe Aski Nation deputy grand chief saying she’s lost faith that police will serve the community. Calls to reinvestigate sudden deaths of Indigenous people in Thunder Bay, Ont.A team reviewing sudden deaths…
Two years of the COVID-19 pandemic has pulled Canadians further apart, brought out the worst in people and weakened their compassion for one another, according to the findings of a new survey.Two years of the COVID-19 pandemic has pulled Canadians further apart, brought out the worst in people and weakened their compassion for one another, according to the findings…
Canadian schools devote time to Black history and the Black Canadian experience in February, but what happens the rest of the year? Many educators, historians, students and community members are working to make Black history part of everyday learning.Ruby Smith Díaz, seen delivering a workshop at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., is among a…
