Canada
Battle Over Deep-Sea Mining Takes on New Urgency as Trial Run Winds Down
“The seafloor plume is hugging the seafloor,” he said. Still, the company’s own consultants acknowledged it was too early to draw any conclusions. “There is really a lot of data to analyze before you can make an assessment of environmental impacts,” Thomas L. Johnson of DHI Group, hired by the Metals Company to study the […]
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Lisa LaFlamme Ouster Sets Off Outcry in Canada
From a makeshift studio and with a news anchor’s measured tones, one of Canada’s most familiar faces shocked viewers, created a PR disaster at a national broadcaster and set off intense conversations about how employers treat women as they age. She did it with a polite, unexpected farewell. “I guess this is my sign-off from […]
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Francis Calls Abuse of Indigenous People in Canada a ‘Genocide’
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis has called the devastation visited on generations of Indigenous people in Canada by European colonizers — carried out with the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church — a “genocide” as he returned to Rome after a six-day trip to the North American country. As well as again denouncing […]
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Breaking Agreement to Use a Condom Is a Sex Crime, Canada High Court Rules
TORONTO — It is a crime to renege on a promise to wear a condom during sex without a partner’s knowledge or consent, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled this week. The decision sends a British Columbia man back to trial for sexual assault, and sets legal precedent in Canada, further clarifying the law governing […]
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Why Catholicism Remains Strong in Canada
EDMONTON, Alberta — The centerpiece of Pope Francis’s journey to Canada this week was his historic message of apology on Monday to the country’s Indigenous people for the Catholic Church’s role in the notorious residential school system that tried to erase their culture, and in which thousands of children were abused and died. But as […]
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Pope Francis Will Travel to Canada to Apologize to Indigenous Community
OTTAWA — Pope Francis is traveling to Canada this week to apologize to Indigenous communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the country’s notorious residential school system, where thousands of Indigenous children died, and countless others were sexually and physically abused. The visit comes after years of pleas from Indigenous leaders and leading politicians […]
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In Canada, Rogers Network Disruption Prompts Outages
TORONTO — An outage on Friday at Rogers, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, caused significant internet, cable and cellphone disruptions, mostly in Ontario and Quebec, the country’s most populous provinces. The outage affected emergency services and some police services, including law enforcement agencies in Toronto and Ottawa, which were warning that some Rogers customers […]
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More Than 400,000 Solar-Powered Umbrellas Recalled Over Fire Risk
The authorities have recalled more than 400,000 solar-powered umbrellas sold at Costco because of overheating and fire risks. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which issued the recall on Thursday for the 10-foot SunVilla Solar LED Market Umbrella, said consumers reported that lithium-ion batteries in the umbrella’s solar panel can overheat, posing fire and burn […]
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Names a New Director
Two years after publicly confronting sexual harassment allegations, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has selected its new leader: Sasha Suda, the current director and chief executive of the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario. Praising her educational and work experience, Leslie Anne Miller, the museum’s chairwoman, said in an interview on Tuesday that Suda […]
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