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The I Medici di McGill Orchestra, composed primarily of physicians and medical students, traded in their lab coats for musical instruments for Mother’s Day. The concert raised funds and awareness to advance endometriosis research.

When a Toronto café posted “No Zionists allowed,” and when Jewish students at Canadian universities faced discrimination, Brooke Goldstein did not write a press release. She filed lawsuits, setting out to make Jew‑hatred legally costly. Goldstein is executive director and founder of The Lawfare Project, an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the Jewish…

Caroline Elliott is an articulate, policy-driven candidate promising to lead — and unite — B.C. Conservatives at a moment when voters are fed up with Premier David Eby’s NDP government. “We have a 10-point lead right now in the polls. The best way to blow that is to divide ourselves,” says Elliott, front-runner in the…

Police in parts of Canada are warning high school students about the risks of playing a game that may have the public mistaking their water guns for real weapons. In one Ontario community, police are investigating students who appear to have targeted an unhoused Indigenous man.

In late July 1990, in the waters off Nova Scotia and at a tiny Cape Breton wharf, a plot to unload around two-dozen tonnes of hash was foiled by RCMP, the coast guard and the military. A judge later called the plan “one of the largest conspiracies ever to import drugs through the Nova Scotia…

In his timely new book The Republic of Alberta: An Idea That Won’t Go Away (out now with Sutherland House), journalist Tyler Dawson examines the long history and renewed force of Alberta separatism, and traces how a province that remains overwhelmingly Canadian has nonetheless developed a deep and durable sense of alienation from Ottawa, and…

Francine Shimizu-Orgar has frequent nightmares when her mind replays moments from the recent inquest into her daughter’s death at the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital. But if the inquiry, which the family pushed for, wasn’t held, what happened to 24-year-old Heather Winterstein “would never have come out,” Shimizu-Orgar tells CBC from the family home in the…

The federal Liberals have said since 2021 they’ll restrict vaping flavours nationwide, but now Canada’s health minister won’t say when or even if it will still happen — despite widespread expert advice a ban could help curb the country’s staggering youth vaping rate.

In a Venice Biennale taking place at a time of wars, tension over migration and climate anxiety, the Canadian pavilion poses a quieter question: Who gets to live with nature, who gets to protect it and who is shut out from it?

When the Gordie Howe International Bridge opens sometime this spring , it’ll include a 2.5 kilometer multi-use path for pedestrians and cyclists, connecting to local trails in Windsor — including the Trans Canada Trail — and in Detroit, including the Joe Louis Greenway.