Month: May 2021

Click here for updates on this story     SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (CTV Network) — Indigenous people, low-income Canadians and those living in rural Ontario and Quebec are disproportionately hit by Greyhound Canada shutting down its last routes in the country, advocates say. Earlier this month, the bus service announced it was permanently shutting down all operations in

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — With COVID-19 keeping many people isolated and alone, one way to combat the loneliness is by cranking the volume up on your favourite song, show or movie, new research suggests. Researchers at Australia’s James Cook University found that people who felt socially isolated

Flipping open a yearbook for the first time is normally a moment full of excitement — but at one Florida high school, some students were left in shock after seeing that their yearbook portraits had been edited. When Bartram Trail High School freshman Riley O’Keefe saw her yearbook photo, she noticed a black bar was

The United States has joined calls for a more in-depth, transparent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, after an international probe in China earlier this year yielded little in the way of firm conclusions. Speaking at the World Health Organization’s annual summit for member states in Geneva on Tuesday, representatives from the US

People are getting back to traveling, which means flights are filling up — and plane ticket prices are going sky-high. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.)

The story of George Floyd has ignited a movement. But to his girlfriend, “Big Floyd” was the man she loved. While the US marked the one-year anniversary Tuesday of the police killing of a man whose death sparked months of reckoning over policing and racial bias, Courtney Ross remembered who Floyd was before the world

Wildfires have burned roughly 14,000 acres in California this year as a deepening drought grips the Southwest — more than five times the acreage charred by the same time last year. It’s a worrying trend that has fire officials taking a proactive approach — from more funding to wildfire prevention to hiring additional crews —

Wildfires in California have burned more than five times the amount of acreage in the first five months of 2021 as they did in the same period last year, a worrying trend after what was the worst year for fires in the state’s history. A dry winter season that has led to drought conditions is