Parks Canada Canada avalanche: bodies of three renowned mountaineers foundThe Guardian - Agence France-PresseThe bodies of three world-renowned professional mountaineers – two Austrians and an American – were found Sunday after they went missing during an avalanche on a western Canadian summit, the national agency
Canadian News Cannabis websites in US and Canada crash on biggest 4/20 dayThe Guardian - Rupert NeateGlobal cannabis suppliers struggled to keep up with demand on Saturday, the biggest ever 4/20 Day, an annual celebration of marijuana on 20 April, which in the US calendar is referred to as 4/20. Suppliers
Justin Trudeau Provincial election losses may help Justin Trudeau's green agendaThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoFor months, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has been dogged by an ever-deepening political scandal that has dragged down his popularity and threatened his re-election prospects. In yet another Trudeau
Ancestry.com Inc. Ancestry pulls ad that appears to romanticize slavery after backlashThe Guardian - Dream McClinton in New YorkAncestry.ca, the Canadian outpost of the genealogy site Ancestry.com, has taken down an ad that was criticized for appearing to romanticize slavery. It was deemed an irresponsible retelling of an already
Canadian News Three mountaineers killed in avalanche in CanadaThe Guardian - Peter Beaumont in London and Joanna Walters in New YorkThree of the world’s most accomplished and well known mountaineers have been killed after an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies. The two Austrian climbers, David Lama and Hansjörg Auer, and the American
Cuba Trump's new Cuba crackdown puts US at odds with Canada and EuropeGuardian US - David Smith in WashingtonDonald Trump has taken another step towards reversing Barack Obama’s historic rapprochement with Cuba with a measure that earned swift criticism from allies in Canada and Europe. The US announced on Wednesday
Play buttonNotre Dame Cathedral Assassin's Creed creators pledge €500,000 to Notre DameThe Guardian - Keza MacDonaldVideo game creators at Ubisoft Montréal – the development studio that rebuilt 18th-century Paris in its 2014 historical action game Assassin’s Creed Unity – have joined the global outpouring of grief the
Black Market Canada's legal weed struggles to light up as smokers stick to black marketThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoWhen Melissa, a resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, went to one of Canada’s first government cannabis stores, she wasn’t impressed. “You can’t look at what they have. You can’t smell the product,” she said.
Jason Kenney Canada: Jason Kenney and United Conservatives win Alberta electionThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoConservatives in western Canada have won a critical regional election, with voters rejecting the province of Alberta’s incumbent leftwing government and setting the stage for a fight with the federal over
Vancouver Whitecaps New claims allege 'toxic and confusing' environment in Canadian soccerThe Guardian - Matthew HallNew details have emerged of a “toxic and confusing” environment inside top Canadian women’s soccer teams as a player and a former team manager have come forward to describe “sexual targeting” and inappropriate
Play buttonCanadian News Canada: police hunt fake deliveryman who shot woman with crossbowThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoPolice in Canada are hunting a suspected hitman who they say disguised himself as a delivery person to carry out a “premeditated, targeted and isolated attack” on a woman, gravely injuring her with a Details
Canadian News Alberta election key test for Rachel Notley and carbon taxThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoWhen Canada’s leftwing New Democratic party launched a manifesto promising carbon taxes, coal plant closures and welfare spending in the heartland of country’s oil industry, few thought they could win.
Canadian News Sky high: can you travel across borders with legal cannabis?The Guardian - Alex HalperinAt the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, officials stripped the Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati of his gold medal after he tested positive for THC. Rebagliati contested the ruling. He said he had quit
Canadian News David Chariandy: ‘To make sense of prejudice, tell the story of the past’The Guardian - Kate KellawayWhat words do I have as a parent to offer to my beloved daughter about this painful issue? It is breakfast time in Vancouver and David Chariandy and his 15-year-old daughter are sitting side by side on
Cultural Appropriation Who polices the cultural appropriation gatekeepers?The Guardian - Kenan MalikAnother week, another row over cultural appropriation. But this one is different. It’s not a white artist being accused of appropriating the cultural forms of a minority community but an Indigenous Canadian
Canadian News Weatherwatch: Canada jays suffer as milder winters defrost suppliesThe Guardian - Kate RaviliousCanada jays collect and hide perishable winter supplies, but repeated freeze-thaw events damage their stocks A few weeks ago I came downstairs and discovered I had left the freezer door open overnight:
Canadian News Customs union and recession fearsThe Guardian - LettersNo self-respecting state wanting to leave the EU would contemplate shackling itself to an EU customs union (Editorial, 11 April). We would have little or no say with regards to any future deals negotiated
Canadian News 'The sickest thing': Canadian soccer rocked by claims of systemic abuseThe Guardian - Matthew Hall[It] makes you feel like nothing, like tiny specks with no power or control Ciara McCormack With the Women’s World Cup only months away, soccer in Canada has been jolted by allegations of abuse, manipulation
Canadian News Man found guilty of using phone while driving even though device was deadThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoA Canadian court has convicted a man of using his mobile phone while driving – even though the device was dead and stowed away in his vehicle’s glove compartment. Patrick Henry Grzelak was driving home
Canadian News Canada's Garda World considering a bid for outsourcer G4SThe Guardian - Staff and ReutersCanada’s Garda World Security has confirmed that it is considering making a cash offer for some or all of the UK outsourcing company G4S. G4S shares jumped 30% on the news, heading for their biggest single-day
Canadian News Rachel Cusk archive snapped up by library – despite burnt and lost manuscriptsThe Guardian - Alison FloodWhen my children were small I used to fantasise about the writer’s life, the life I believed other writers were living The papers of the Canadian-born novelist Rachel Cusk have been acquired by a library
Canadian News Canada: one Indigenous group accuses other of cultural appropriation in award rowThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoA prominent awards show for Indigenous music in Canada has been plunged into turmoil after a group of Inuit performers accused a Cree folk singer of cultural appropriation. Several well-known Inuit singers
Social Media Canada may regulate social media companies to avoid election meddlingThe Guardian - Reuters in OttawaThe world’s major social media companies are not doing enough to help Canada combat potential foreign meddling in this October’s elections and the government might have to regulate them, the cabinet minister
Canadian News Montreal teachers vow to ignore 'stupid, wrongheaded' religious symbols banThe Guardian - Martin Patriquin in MontrealMontreal’s Westmount high school last made headlines as the alma mater of the US senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. It now has another distinction: the first Quebec school to publicly commit
Play buttonCanadian News Trudeau fails to halt scandal as twin expulsions damage PM's feminist imageThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoJustin Trudeau is facing fresh criticism for expelling two former ministers from his party, dashing any hopes that a scandal which has dogged his government for nearly two months will disappear any time
Film (UK) Shane Rimmer obituaryThe Guardian - Toby HadokeShane Rimmer, who has died aged 89, was a doughty Canadian character actor who, in a career of more than 50 years, carved a productive niche playing American roles in British productions. While his was
Canadian News Mapped: historical public transit systems v their modern equivalentsThe Guardian - Jake BermanLos Angeles 1926 v 2019 LA Los Angeles was once served by the Pacific Electric Railway, which boasted in its marketing that it was largest electric railway system in the world. The 1926 map here is based
Canadian News Canada: ex-cabinet members expelled from Liberal party amid scandalThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoTwo former Canadian cabinet ministers have been expelled from their party after Justin Trudeau said they could no longer be trusted, as a bitter political scandal continues to inflict political damage
Canadian News UK and Canada launch satellite-based aircraft tracking systemThe Guardian - Gwyn Topham Transport correspondentA satellite air traffic surveillance system capable of tracking aircraft anywhere around the planet has been launched. The system, which will start tracking planes over the north Atlantic, has been developed
Canadian News Canada warming at twice the global rate, climate report findsThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoCanada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, a landmark government report has found, warning that drastic action is the only way to avoid catastrophic outcomes. “The science is clear – Canada’s
