Daylight Saving Time: History, health impacts and debate
Spiro Papuckoski / torontosun - Most Canadians will be springing their clocks forward one hour this weekend. For some, that loss of 60 minutes will become permanent. British Columbia announced earlier this week that the province is officially ending the twice-yearly time change in favou…
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Iconic Calgary cookhouse and dance hall will be relocating in 2027
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - It is an iconic part of Calgary's country music heritage and a hotspot for Stampede celebrations, but Ranchman's Cookhouse and Dancehall will soon be moving to a new location.
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N.D.G.'s Empress Theatre to be demolished, turned into an outdoor cultural space
Jesse Feith, Montreal Gazette / montrealgazette - The theatre’s iconic Egyptian Revival facade will be saved to serve as a backdrop to the new space — essentially a courtyard closed in by two preserved walls.
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Historic Montreal church destroyed by fire; flames spread to adjacent retirement home
sootoday - MONTREAL — A fire has destroyed a historic former church in southwestern Montreal and the flames spread to an adjacent seniors home. The fire broke out around 1:40 a.m. in the former Saint-Paul Church in the city's Sud-Ouest borough.
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Newfoundland lobster tags from the 1980s among plastic trash washing up in Scotland
sootoday - ST. JOHN'S — Lobster tags from Newfoundland dating back to the 1980s are among the piles of plastic trash that has washed up this year on Sanday, an island in the Scottish Orkney archipelago known for its pristine white sandy beaches.
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Kamloops First Nation finds no confirmed grave sites in latest survey
Jackson Loy / westernstandard - A press release from the office of the Chief of the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., has stated that the most recent investigation at the Kamloops Residential School site shows "signatures that resemble burials" but no confirmed grav…
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U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at 84: ‘A giant has gone home’
Eddie Chau / torontosun - Jackson's daughter, Sanita Jackson, confirmed that her father died at home in Chicago, surrounded by family
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Montreal shooting survivor shares how she regained sense of safety
Alessia Simona Maratta / globalnews - Nathalie Provost was shot in the leg, foot and forehead by a gunman who killed 14 women and injured more than a dozen people in 1989, including six of her classmates.
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Loss of government funding, secularism putting many Quebec churches ‘on the brink’
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Experts say Quebec's decision last year to suspend programs that provided financial aid for church renovations and transformations is putting future projects in jeopardy.
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Montreal’s Royal Vic conversion to student housing will cost $845 million: CDPQ Infra
News Staff / citynews - The conversion of the Royal Victoria Hospital buildings into student residences would cost $845 million due to structural work needed on the heritage buildings. In a press release Friday, CDPQ Infra, a subsidiary of La Caisse, which was behind high-profil…
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Former prime minister Stephen Harper's official portrait unveiled in Ottawa
sootoday - OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper's official portrait was unveiled Tuesday afternoon, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the election of his first Conservative government. Harper's portrait was presented in a ceremony at the Sir John A.
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Back to Top / Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 18719 / 13 stories in 4 wks
Montreal vigil to mark anniversary of Quebec City mosque attack
sootoday - MONTREAL — A vigil will be held in Montreal at 4:30 p.m. today to mark the ninth anniversary of the Jan. 29, 2017, Quebec City mosque attack and to honour the six people killed.
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Why two skulls unearthed in B.C. could be harbingers for future archeological woes
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Last June, landscapers working on a site in Kamloops, B.C., came upon a troubling discovery — two human skulls and jawbones.
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Why did Carney’s Plains of Abraham speech resonate so poorly in Quebec?
Catherine Lévesque / nationalpost - Carney chose to deliver his speech only in front of media, surrounded by his ministers, in the Citadelle of Quebec, a military fortification that overlooks the Plains of Abraham
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City of Edmonton seeks ideas for redevelopment of Rossdale Power Plant
Jasmine King / globalnews - The city hopes this building maintains most of its character and history, but that could be one of the most difficult parts of this redevelopment process.
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Quebec removing the British crown from province’s coat of arms
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - The Quebec government says it's removing the British crown from the province's official coat of arms.
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Italian fashion giant Valentino dies at 93
Anne Bacani / torontosun - Valentino Garavani — the man whose first name became shorthand for haute couture and that iconic shade of red — has died. He was 93. The cause of death was not immediately known. According to People, a statement posted Monday on Valentino’s personal Insta…
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NASA readies for historic Artemis II flight around the moon
Ivan Semeniuk / theglobeandmail - Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and crewmates will be first to travel beyond low Earth orbit in half a century
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Last surviving Dionne quintuplet has died
News Staff / citynews - NORTH BAY — Annette Dionne, the last surviving Dionne quintuplet and a champion of children’s rights, has died. The Dionne Quints Home Museum in North Bay, Ont., says in a social media post that Annette died on Christmas Eve but did not provide further de…
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Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - A paraplegic German engineer fulfilled a lifelong dream Saturday, floating in space after launching aboard a Blue Origin rocket, calling it the "coolest" experience of her life.
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