“We have so many positive stories in our community that [are] not told,” says Montreal Black community activist Gemma Raeburn-Baynes. The Contact, a biweekly newspaper and online resource, has been telling those stories for decades.This is the front page of the Montreal Community Contact’s Black History Month edition. (The Montreal Community Contact/January 28, 2022)CBC Quebec…
On Christmas day 2020, a vehicle packed with explosives detonated in downtown Nashville. Dozens of buildings were damaged, leaving hundreds without homes…
I learned to navigate the complexities of fighting racism by watching my immigrant parents live and work in rural Canada, writes Nathan Kim.I learned to navigate the complexities of fighting racism by watching my immigrant parents live and work in rural Canada, writes Nathan Kim. (John Fraser/CBC)This First Person column is written by Nathan Kim…
It was a historic moment for the P.E.I. Jewish community as they lit their first public menorah on the lawn of the provincial legislature to celebrate 120 years as part of the province, and to mark the first day of Hanukkah.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) hearing into the Rogers-Shaw merger has reached the halfway point. Wednesday marked day three of…
Some residents of Monte Lake, a small B.C. community devastated by the White Rock Lake fire, were able to view the damage first-hand as the district confirmed on Saturday that 28 residences and one business have been lost.A door mat sits on the ground at a property destroyed by the White Rock Lake wildfire in Monte…
The entire southern Interior community of Logan Lake, B.C., has been ordered to evacuate because of an approaching wildfire.A pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, forms in the sky above the Tremont Creek wildfire in B.C.’s southern Interior on July 16. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)The entire southern Interior community of Logan Lake, B.C.,…
It’s going to be a two-day Eevee extravaganza for Pokémon Go players in August. From August 13th at 10am PT/1pm ET, players…
Indigenous faculty and students at Queen’s University say the administration has left them in the dark as questions grow in response to an anonymous report alleging six instructors, professors and associates falsely claimed Indigenous identity.Faculty and students at Queen’s University are calling for the school to engage with the school’s Indigenous community in a meaningful…
Canadian flags draped the caskets of four members of a Muslim family who were mourned at a funeral Saturday in London, Ont., almost a week after they died in what police have said was a hate-motivated attack.Canadian flags draped the caskets of four members of a Muslim family who were mourned at a funeral Saturday…