The GuardianCanada man charged with supplying substance linked to UK and US suicidesverified_publisherThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoPolice in Canada have laid charges against an Ontario man following allegations he sold a lethal substance to people in dozens of countries, including four people who killed themselves in Britain and one in the United States. Kenneth Law, 57, is due to appear in court on Wednesday after Peel …
The GuardianGod save us all: Britain is about to get the king it deservesverified_publisherThe Guardian - Stephen Marche in London and TorontoSay it out loud and try not to snicker: “The coronation of Charles the Third.” In a time of post-post-colonialism, of anti-racist iconoclasm, a time in which the very notion of gender as a legitimate distinction is contested, and Christianity has been reduced to a scandal management system with …
The Guardian‘We’re tired of waiting’: the First Nation that unilaterally declared a marine protected areaverified_publisherThe Guardian - Michelle Cyca in VancouverFor years, the people of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation watched over their waters and waited. They had spent nearly two decades working with Canada’s federal government to negotiate protections for Kitasu Bay, an area off the coast of British Columbia that was vulnerable to overfishing. But the …
The GuardianGordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter, dies aged 84verified_publisherThe Guardian - Guardian staff and agenciesThe Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, best known for folk-pop hits such as If You Could Read My Mind and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 84, his family has announced. His longtime publicist Victoria Lord said Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday …
The GuardianChilly willy: photo of phallic iceberg off Canadian coast prompts merrimentverified_publisherThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoIt was a calm spring day when Canadian photographer Ken Pretty spotted an interestingly shaped 30ft iceberg off Newfoundland’s east coast. As he flew his drone overhead, Pretty, who hails from the town of Dildo, realized the hulk of ice bore a distinct resemblance to a characteristic part of the …
The GuardianMutual bond endures but Canada at a crossroads as king’s coronation loomsverified_publisherThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoMore than 800 dives beneath metres-thick ice were not enough to prepare Joe MacInnis for the stress of bringing a member of the British royal family deep into the blisteringly cold depths of the Arctic Ocean. Especially a future king. “This is one of the most hostile places on the planet and hazards …