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An Ontario non-profit group focused on preserving the province's disappearing old barns has launched a census to track them. 'At the rate they're disappearing, we need to be acting very fast,' says founding director Old rustic barns have long been a key part of the rural landscape in Ontario, and …

Although Tama Fost is a Newfoundlander, and a Labradorian too, she is also the first generation of her Inuit family lineage to have been born and raised in a city. She explores what being an urban Inuk and honouring tradition means to her. The term 'atitsak' acknowledges a deep, spiritual …

Bonnie Crombie and Nate Erskine-Smith are the last two candidates left in the race to lead the party. Bonnie Crombie continues to lead contest, now in head-to-head race with Nate Erskine Smith The Ontario Liberal leadership race is going to a third round of ranked ballot voting Saturday after no …

Saskatchewan farmers worry that the fall weather will continue into the winter and make it difficult to grow crops next year. Farmers dry upcoming season will make growing harder next year Farming is Jeremy Welter's livelihood, but recent weather conditions have made it increasingly difficult to grow his crops. "You …

As tensions from the Israel-Hamas war continue to ripple through Canada, and officials across the country report an alarming rise in anti-Muslim occurrences, including in schools, some experts say Islamophobia must become a classroom priority addressed now — in practical ways and on multiple fronts. Just a handful of school …

Members of Montreal's Haitian community are calling on the Legault government to rethink its decision to withdraw from a federal family reunification program specifically aimed at Haitian, Colombians and Venezuelans. Humanitarian program launched Nov. 17 is meant to help Haitians, Colombians, Venezuelans Paul Toussaint was hopeful that Canada's new humanitarian …

Nearly half of meat consumers said they planned to buy less meat in 2023, Ipsos polling shows. Food researchers are saying that after years of being told to eat our veggies, inflation could be the reason we actually do it. Consumers are changing their shopping and dining habits to cut …

Doug Olson discovered a pebble-sized meteorite on his roof, marking Alberta's first witnessed meteorite fall since 1977. Discovery marks the first witnessed fall of a meteorite in Alberta in 40 years, U of A says Doug Olson heard a loud thud on his roof while folding laundry in October last …

Dr. Andrea Wilson, a family doctor who committed to work for a decade in the northern Manitoba community of The Pas — and then left within two years — says she has agreed to repay a $100,000 interest-free loan provided as a recruitment incentive. Dr. Andrea Wilson says she broke …

Authorities in British Columbia have issued warnings to residents of the province's southwest to prepare for an atmospheric river bearing down on the area. Series of storms forecast to begin Monday, peaking Tuesday; snowfall warnings already in place for highways Authorities in British Columbia have issued warnings to residents of …