Hope dwindled for Julie and Paul Devigne as a treatment-resistant tumour in their baby’s belly swelled so large it restricted his ability to eat, sleep and breathe. Then, in a surgical feat, doctors at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children gave…
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Lethbridge-based country singer Shaela Miller strummed her guitar and struggled with a strange request: to sing the lyrics from one of her songs in her own Canadian accent, and without a southern U.S. twang. “I woke up/In my bed/With a…
Health Canada is proposing expanded restrictions on the use of talc in some cosmetic and personal cleansing products due to the possibility of lung damage and cancer risk. The new restrictions would expand warnings on the use of talc in…
Steven Heighton is a novelist, short story writer and poet from Kingston, Ont. His books include the poetry collection The Waking Comes Late, which won the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the novel The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep and the memoir Reaching Mithymna, which was a finalist…
In the same way we look back on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, comparing, for instance, our face masks to theirs, future generations may, one day, wonder how British Columbians fared during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. To that end,…
The only four-year music program at a northern Ontario university has been cut by Laurentian, the latest casualty as the Sudbury school restructures. The music program was built over more than 20 years, and contributed far more to the arts community than…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 06: A cosplayer poses as Batman during New York Comic Con 2019 on October 06, 2019 in New York City. Daniel Zuchnik | Getty Images Grab your capes and utility belts, New York Comic…
The six patio seats are a far cry from the 80-person capacity floor the Kino Cafe was used to filling before the COVID-19 pandemic. Once a bustling hub for flamenco dancers and up-and-coming standup comics, it’s now a money pit for owner Steve Allen…
In 2020, when the world suddenly ground to a halt, most people postponed or canceled all of their plans due to the coronavirus crisis. Many were issued vouchers or credits good for a future date. Now, one year later, those credits…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford apologized to Ontarians Thursday morning, days after his government faced intense backlash for introducing a number of additional COVID-19 restrictions that were not recommended by health experts and then nixed earlier this week. Ford, who is isolating at his late mother’s…