Highlights / Year: 2020

Arts & Entertainment, Health, Society

Online photo gallery aims to curb stigma around HIV

People living with HIV have joined an effort to create a collection of photos that illustrate what their lives are like. The images are available in a new online photo gallery called HIV in View. It was produced by Shutterstock »

Economy, Society

SUVs and trucks with remote starters top Canada’s most-stolen list: IBC

The 2018 Honda CR-V SUV and trucks with remote starters top the list of the most often stolen vehicles in Canada, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada. Electronic auto theft is on the rise across the country as more »

Arts & Entertainment, Society

Canadian writers honoured for career achievements

Awards were announced today for exceptional Canadian writers in the genres of fiction, poetry and literature for young readers. Other Canadian literary awards recognize authors for one book in particular, but these prizes awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada »

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Racing Point driver Lance Stroll flips his car during the Formula One in Sakhir

Racing Point driver Lance Stroll of Canada flips his car during the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir, Bahrain, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. (Giuseppe Cacace, Pool via AP) »

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A woman wearing a face mask walks from the underpass up to the street in Moscow

A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks from the underpass up to the street during sunset in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Russia has registered a record number of coronavirus deaths for a second straight day. Currently, there is a country-wide mask mandate and mostly mild restrictions that vary from region to region. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) »

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People jog on a path on a warm fall day in Montreal

People jog on a path destined to be a cross-country trail in a park on a warm fall day in Montreal, on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson »

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A woman wearing a mask walks past a cutout of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

A woman wearing a mask walks past a store’s sidewalk advertising featuring a cutout of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a mask that says: ‘Talk Moistly To Me,’ in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marissa Tiel »

Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics

Canada commits to sustainable use of all of its oceans

Canada has joined 13 other coastal nations in pledging to sustainably manage 100 per cent of its oceans by 2025. The non-binding pledges announced at the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy on Tuesday commit the governments of »

Society

National police to get body cameras

With many controversial incidents involving police forces across the country public trust in police is presumed to be waning. Although a recent survey in Canada showed only a quarter of respondents agreed with the “defund the police’ movement, a new »

Politics, Society

Trust in some Canadian leaders drops amid pandemic spike

Most of the premiers of Canada’s 10 provinces retain the trust of the majority of their populations, according to a recent survey, but trust for some is declining as rates of COVID-19 infection increase. Canada is a federation and it »