EDMONTON – Kendra Behringer first noticed the stares after she got her bottom lip pierced. “People gawk all the time. I see them whispering with their hands over their mouths looking right at me,” Behringer says. The negative attention became obvious to her when she added two studs on the right and left side for…
A short TV doc for the 25th Hour by Fiona Buchanan, John Paul Tasker, and Max Winkelman.
A short documentary film by Fiona Buchanan, Samantha Wright Allen and Max Winkelman.
Canada’s Privy Council Office has stopped releasing 30-year-old federal cabinet records on an annual basis, resulting in a seven-year backlog of archival government material. In the early 1980s, the PCO began transferring cabinet records, declassified after a 30-year holding period, to the National Archives (which became Library and Archives Canada in 2004) where they became…
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is looking to the Conservative Party to repay the cost for Pamela Wallin’s audit — an investigation of the senator’s spending that cost the Senate nearly $127,000. Mulcair told Postmedia News Sunday that the cost of the audit shouldn’t be paid for with tax dollars. Last week, the Senate’s internal economy…
(Link to article with video on o.canada.com) Canadians watching the Senate spending affair may be forgiven for wondering what the upper chamber does aside from claiming expenses. In an occasional series, Postmedia News provides snapshots of some of the other members of the Senate of Canada. Today: Lillian Dyck. — She was the first aboriginal woman…
OTTAWA — As the Senate draws fire over the spending habits of one of its members, the resignation of a politician in the House of Commons has prompted ethical questions of a different sort. The resignation of Manitoba Conservative MP Merv Tweed, who stepped down Monday to run a major railway company, has raised eyebrows…
(Link to article with video on o.canada.com) MONTREAL – On a sweltering summer day, candles, flowers and a banner that reads “Bonne Fête” still adorn the base of a tree in a parking lot in north Montréal, where 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva was killed by a police officer five years ago. The young Honduran immigrant’s death…
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was advised that Canadians’ sensitivity “is a fact of life” spurred on by the country’s “ham-fisted neighbour to the south,” in a set of confidential briefing notes prior to her Canadian visit in 1983. Government files from 30 years ago, released this week by the British National Archives, included two telegrams dated…
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau drew criticism from both the Conservatives and NDP after declaring his support for legalizing marijuana last week. Claiming that marijuana is “no worse” than smoking or drinking alcohol, Trudeau said many studies support his views. But medical professionals are divided on the issue. Wayne Hindmarsh, a University of Toronto professor specializing…
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