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At the initiative of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada is flying in 25,000 Syrian refugees from camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Volunteers are offering shelter and knitting tuques. “It is a very nice step, a question of humanity.”
As Europeans and Canadians mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day this week, including the liberation of the Netherlands by Canadian forces, World War II veteran Jim Wilkinson shares his recollections of the conflict. “I never thought we would lose so many men.”
For the first time in history, a member of the indigenous population of North America has been canonized by the Catholic church. Kateri Tekakwitha was a young Mohawk woman who lived over 300 years ago. Her admirers attribute special powers to her.
Canadian ‘porn killer’ Luka Rocco Magnotta has been arrested in an Internet café in Berlin following an international search of less than a week. Canada wants Magnotta to be sent back to Montreal to face justice over his high-profile atrocities.
Demonstrators in Quebec have discovered banging pots and pans as protest language against a perceived growth in inequality. The cacophonous movement of the casseroles is expanding to other cities in Canada and beyond.
Canada is gripped by a gruesome murder case in which the perpetrator sent body parts to political parties and posted a video of his crime on the Internet. The suspect, a 29-year-old porn actor known as Luka Rocco Magnotta, is on the run.
Student demonstrations against a proposed increase in tuition fees have grown into the most potent protest movement in North America of the day. Like Occupy, the ‘Red Square’ movement demands less emphasis on neoliberal values. And like the Arab Spring, young protesters in the streets want to bring the government to its knees.
Enduring harsh winters is the Canadian way. No winter phenomenon is unheard of in the ‘Great White North’. Blizzards, black ice, frostbite and wind chill: they’re all part of the Canadian winter experience. ‘Cold out, eh?’ A winter appreciation from Montreal.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is on the rise in many parts of the world. In North America, the sport has eclipsed boxing as the most popular extreme fighting sport. The often bloody competition is worth billions of dollars. Critics reject the phenomenon as human cockfighting. Report on fight night.
Montreal is making a big bet on bicycling with the launch of its own system of public bikes, called Bixi. The Canadian city hopes to set an example in car-loving North America, to get people out of their gas guzzlers and onto two wheels.
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