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Critical darling Scarborough came out on top at the final night of the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards, winning best motion picture, achievement in direction and performance by an actor in a leading role on Sunday. Scarborough marked the feature film debut of directors Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson, who received the achievement in direction award. Thirteen-year-old Liam Diaz — who […]
In the darkness of the early morning of Feb. 13, 2020, several unmarked RCMP vehicles followed Gurinderpreet Dhaliwal into a parking lot in Brampton, Ont., northwest of Toronto. When he stopped, the Mounties made their move, surrounding his vehicle, ordering Dhaliwal out and placing him in handcuffs within seconds. His arrest — and that of […]
The four-member Axiom Mission 1 crew, including Montreal entrepreneur Mark Pathy, arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday aboard the first all-private charter flight to the ISS. SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday for the 10-day mission, with the passengers scheduled to spend eight days on […]
Boris Brott, the artistic director of the Orchestre classique de Montréal, died Tuesday after a hit and run in Hamilton that led to the driver’s arrest a short time later and three officers being injured. Brott, a renowned conductor and motivational speaker with deep ties to Hamilton, was 78. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that […]
EDMONTON – The archbishop of Edmonton says the apology from Pope Francis for the role the Roman Catholic Church played in the residential school system is just the first step on the road to healing. Archbishop Richard Smith, who was part of a delegation to the Vatican that included several Indigenous leaders, says […]
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Canada’s bid to seal World Cup qualification was put on hold Thursday after a 1-0 loss to Costa Rica that saw the Canadians play a man down for almost two-thirds of the match. But the future remains bright, with Canada (7-1-4, 25 points) now looking to seal the […]
The Liberal government’s deal with the NDP to keep them in power until 2025 comes with promises of a pair of health programs that estimates indicate could cost $13 billion combined per year. While nothing is announced, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) costed the NDP’s pharmacare plan during the 2021 election at about $11 billion […]
Canada’s military reports that it’s roughly 7,600 members short of full strength — just as NATO is deploying more troops to eastern Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The latest figure was recorded on Feb. 15 and shows a major shortfall in what the military calls its “trained, effective strength.” The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has roughly 65,000 regular members. “This […]
Combat veterans with Florida-based Project Dynamo rescued a baby born to a surrogate in Kyiv and united him with his Canadian parents in Poland.
Two students from Ontario are recovering in hospital following a deadly crash between a pickup truck and a van carrying a college golf team in Texas. Nine people were killed in the crash and the two Canadians who suffered critical injuries are now considered “stable.” Dayton Price, 19, of Mississauga, Ont., and Hayden Underhill, 20, […]
