A rule banning children from wearing turbans on the playing field has garnered a suspension of the soccer federation in the province of Quebec. The Canadian Soccer Association announced its Quebec counterpart will be suspended until the ban is overturned.… »
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Interned Italian-Canadians Remembered at Montreal City Hall
Italian-Canadians gathered at Montreal City Hall this afternoon for a ceremony commemorating the suffering of their parents and grandparents in Canada during the Second World War. This is the 73rd anniversary of the declaration of war against Benito Mussolini’s Italy.… »
Arts & Entertainment, International
Bloomsday Celebrations in Canada
25 cities are taking part in a live, global, on-line reading of Ulysses this year. We’ll tell you which Canadian cities are participating in the festival of James Joyce, and why, later this week. Have you read the legendary story?
Canadian talk-show host George Stroumboulopoulos debuts on CNN
George Stroumboulopoulos, a long-time TV personality in Canada, is CNN’s newest talk-show host. “Stroumboulopoulos”, his hour-long interview show premiered on Sunday evening on the U.S. cable news channel. As of next week and for the rest of the summer, it will… »
Daniel Lanois honored for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
It was a trip down memory lane for music producer Daniel Lanois. He and his mother, drove the four hours from his home in Toronto, to Ottawa. It was on the other side of the river, in Gatineau Quebec, that… »
Restrict power of political party leaders, say poll respondents
Leaders of political parties in Canada have more power than party leaders in any other democracy worldwide and Canadians want new laws to limit that, says the educational foundation, Your Canada, Your Constitution. Just last week a conservative member of… »
A thing of wonder: rare blue lobster caught off Antigonish, Nova Scotia
At first, Sheldon Trenholm of South River, Nova Scotia didn’t know what it was. Then he realized the bright blue thing thrashing in his trap with seven or eight lobsters, was indeed another lobster. Trenholm caught the rare crustacean in… »
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Gay couple celebrates wedding anniversary
Michael Stark and Michael Leshner are celebrating 10 years since they became the first same-sex couple to be legally married in Canada. The two got married in Toronto just hours after a court in the province of Ontario pronounced the… »
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Woman celebrates her 90 years atop tallest structure
Betty Convery celebrated her 90th birthday by taking a hair-raising walk atop the CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere on Sunday. The tower is 365 meters above downtown Toronto. Convery took the so-called Edge Walk in… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
GM fish interbreeding could pose environmental risks
If genetically-modified salmon escape containment they can breed with non-GM fish of other, close species and produce a new fish carrying the modified gene, a study has found. In a study at Memorial University in the eastern province of Newfoundland,… »
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