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From the coalfields of northern England to the Arctic snows and the steaming jungles of Brazil, diamond hunter and scholar Graham Pearson has carved a name for himself that now lives on in rock.

RCMP say six of their vehicles that were left at the Potlotek First Nation Thursday after officers left the scene on foot suffered damage that includes broken windows, flat tires, “urine-soaked interior surfaces” and dents.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Friday that human rights have been on the agenda during his trade mission to China. Speaking to reporters from Beijing, Champagne said that supply chain integrity has been a recurring theme of discussions he’s had with Chinese officials. “We did speak about supply chain integrity,” said Champagne.…

The Ontario government is looking to give itself the power to set transit fares across the province, a move some in Toronto are celebrating as a step towards a more integrated transit system in the GTA — while others are apprehensive about what the move could mean for the TTC.

Prime Minister Mark Carney was a bit chuffed when Canada hit the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s defence spending benchmark of two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in March, crossing the threshold for the first time in decades after a fast-tracked spending surge . “This is the first time since the fall of the…

Organizers of an artistic performance in Toronto allege that China’s communist government is behind a series of “non-credible” threats to the venue that forced the cancellation of a show on Sunday and led to all remaining shows being axed. Falun Dafa Association of Toronto (FDAT), the show presenter, also castigated the Four Seasons Centre, home…

Deborah Meister, Executive Archdeacon of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal, knows that many members of her faith are, to put it bluntly, old. “People who have been hanging on faithfully and practicing their faith and sharing their love of Christ with one another and with their neighbours all their lives,” she says. “Many of them…

Samantha Hemmings stood in the operating room entrance, watching her sister Sophia on the table. “Help me, please,” she recalls her sister saying. “I can’t breathe.” In the spring of 2009, Sophia went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a caesarean section. She suffered an anoxic brain injury: for crucial minutes, her brain was deprived of…

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we take a closer look at a low-tech way to remove and lock away carbon; get a view from space of what the western U.S. heat wave did to the snow; and see what China’s EV transition looks like on the ground.