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[published_date] Today, the city of Thunder Bay is proclaiming June 30th as "Indigenous Survivors Day" and hosting community events. Sixties Scoop survivor Troy Abromaitis said he created Indigenous Survivors Day to honour children who were taken from their families and lands. He said Thunder Bay is the first city to make it a full-day event, and hopes other communities…

[published_date] WARNING: This story contains descriptions and images of racist online content targeting Jews. Everyone agrees, even the defence. For inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews with his terrorist propaganda videos and images, Patrick Gordon MacDonald is going to prison for a substantial period of time. At a sentencing hearing in…

[published_date] Hockey Matthew Knies is staying in Toronto. Knies has signed a six-year extension worth $46.5 million US with the Maple Leafs, according to several media reports. Toronto winger recorded 29 goals, 29 assists in 78 regular-season games in 2024-25 The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 29, 2025 6:46 PM EDT |…

[published_date] The federal government announced late Sunday evening it is rescinding the digital services tax, days after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded it gone and cut off Canada-U.S. trade negotiations. In a press release, the federal government said it would rescind the tax "in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States."…

[published_date] When the Minnesota Frost lifted the Walter Cup just one month ago, players across the league knew things were about to change. With the dust now settled from the PWHL's expansion draft, free-agent signing window and entry draft, it's clear that there's been a massive, league-wide roster reset. Seattle and Vancouver accumulated a wealth…

[published_date] Winnipeg’s iconic Portage and Main intersection has reopened to pedestrians for the first time in 46 years. Long considered the coldest intersection in Canada, it was closed to foot traffic in 1979 in favour of an underground concourse. Source link

[published_date] The CONCACAF Gold Cup is over for Canada. But the learnings will continue. Canada, reduced to 10 men when winger Jacob Shaffelburg was sent off in first-half stoppage time, stumbled in the first knockout round Sunday, beaten 6-5 in a penalty shootout by No. 106 Guatemala after the quarterfinal finished knotted at 1-1 after…

[published_date] The streets of Toronto were filled with music, colour and rainbows as thousands of people took part in the annual Pride parade on Sunday. The parade kicked off at 2 p.m., with more than 25,000 marchers making their way from the Rosedale neighbourhood through the downtown core to Nathan Phillips Square. Toronto's event is Canada's largest Pride…

[published_date] Just a few years ago, Canada Day was going through a serious identity crisis. Calls to #CancelCanadaDay were trending in 2021 after preliminary findings from a ground-penetrating radar survey at a former residential school in British Columbia had found some 200 potential unmarked graves at the now-national historic site. In 2017, protesters with Idle No…

[published_date] More than 200 flights were delayed at Vancouver's airport between Saturday and Sunday, with the airport authority attributing the delays to ongoing staffing constraints at Canada's air traffic control agency. Nav Canada has been seeing ongoing issues for months, with a shortage of air traffic controllers at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in particular regularly…

[published_date] The German busing company FlixBus says it will soon launch daily round trips between Regina, Saskatoon and North Battleford, entering a market shaken in recent years by the end of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company and Greyhound services in the Prairies. The company, which now owns Greyhound and has been running routes in other Canadian provinces since 2022,…

[published_date] When Rachael Coe decided to launch an "elbows up" merchandise line at her store in Yarmouth, N.S., in March, she said it was an immediate bestseller. Within a week, Coe said her Timeless Memories shop had already made 400 sales. By the end of the first month, she had sold 2,500 products ranging from…