‘Whole cities, beautiful, one-of-a-kind cities are under water,’ B.C. businessman says Hours after returning to Canada from Pakistan, a Calgary businessman said he got word floodwaters hit the same area where he had been helping people with disabilities move out of the way of the impending deluge. Mohammad Farhan operates multiple charities and orphanages across Pakistan through his organization, House of Dreams. He said his team on the ground in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa called to tell him they had just watched a nearby hotel get inundated. “ARead more

Restoring Hidden Lake is a feat of conservation that Parks Canada worked on for more than a decade For the first time in 50 years, westslope cutthroat trout are swimming in Hidden Lake again — a feat of conservation that Parks Canada experts have worked on for more than a decade to achieve. Nestled high up in the Skoki Valley of Banff National park, specialists laboured through trial and error to restore habitat ideal for Alberta’s native, and at-risk, westslope cutthroat trout. This summer, thousands of fishlings strong enough to survive in theRead more

Hockey Canada’s new third-party complaint process hired the investigator Hockey Canada is covering the cost of a third-party investigator hired to look into allegations that a group of men on the 2003 World Junior hockey team sexually assaulted a woman in Halifax during a tournament nearly two decades ago. As part of Hockey Canada’s stated plan to address “toxic” behaviour on and off the ice, it created a new “independent third-party” system to respond to complaints of sexual violence. That new system hired Ottawa-based lawyer and sport investigator Jennifer White to findRead more

‘If farmers are under threat, then so are the rest of us,’ researcher Janos Botschner says Cathy Lennon can’t recall the last time she met a farmer who didn’t have a cellphone. “Whether that is sort of your modern-day farmer or your traditional even Mennonite farmer, they have cellphones and smartphones in their pocket,” Lennon, the general manager of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA), said in a phone interview from her office in Guelph, Ont. She said there’s an increasing amount of technology and data on farms and in theRead more