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“You have work harder and do better than everyone else. Nothing less will do.”This was the mantra in my home at back-to-school season.In fact, as an 11-year-old girl moving from my grandmother’s home in Jamaica to join my family in Canada, this expectation was instilled from the start. It was as clear to me as the shift from sunny southern warmth to frigid northern storms. In my new home, “working harder” was sometimes left as an unspoken expectation for me and all

Halloween might still seem like it’s in the far-off future ... unless you have young kids.Basically, as soon as the splash pads stop running, kids start obsessing about their costumes, decorations, pumpkins, and — of course — candy. Stores putting out their Halloween displays once Labour Day is over don’t exactly help. Surely we’re not the only house that’s been boasting an entire inflatable, light-up pumpkin patch since mid-September?Anyway, one way to stop y

Instagram’s inbuilt compare and despair feature has not gone unstudied. There’s research on its negative effects on mental health, on body image, on buying habits, on loneliness, on dopamine, on sleep quality … and now, thanks to a nationwide Refinery29 Canada survey, there’s also research on how it impacts motherhood.And — spoiler alert — things aren’t looking too good.The study, which surveyed 500 Canadian women about motherhood and social m

Recent changes to transgender health care in Alberta are leaving hundreds in flux waiting for surgery.
The resignation of a prominent gender-health psychiatrist in Edmonton, as well as a policy change about how patients are approved for top surgery — a procedure involving the removal of breast tissue to produce a more masculine chest — has led to ballooning waitlists and delays in accessing health services for trans people in the province.
Nick North was initially slated to have a re

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The world doesn’t just need more Canada — it needs more Canadian oil, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Friday.As such, Scheer indicated fossil fuel subsidies, which the Greens and NDP have vowed to eliminate, would not be among the cuts he intends to make to corporate handouts and tax assistance to pay for some of his spending promises.Scheer said earlier this week he would slash at least $1.5 billion from federal handouts and tax-break programs to corp

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Friday fossil-fuel subsidies could be cut as part of his plan to find $1.5 billion in savings from corporate handouts — just a few hours after suggesting he wouldn’t target them because the world and Canada need more Canadian oil and gas.Scheer said earlier this week he intends to help pay for more than $9 billion in spending and tax cut promises by eliminating at least $1.5 billion in federal subsidies that help profita

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Friday fossil-fuel subsidies could be cut as part of his plan to find $1.5 billion in savings from corporate handouts — just a few hours after suggesting he wouldn’t target them because the world and Canada need more Canadian oil and gas.Scheer said earlier this week he intends to help pay for more than $9 billion in spending and tax cut promises by eliminating at least $1.5 billion in federal subsidies that help profita

Justin Trudeau says he will apologize directly to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh for his past racist acts, including appearing in brownface and a turban at a 2001 event in Vancouver.The Liberal leader confirmed Friday that his campaign director has reached out to his NDP counterpart to arrange the conversation. Singh, the first non-white leader of a federal party in Canada, has been open about discrimination he has faced because of his skin colour and his turban. “I will be apologizing to h

Céline Dion has a serious message for fellow Canadian Drake: don’t tattoo her face on his body.Drake is known for getting tribute tattoos of his musical and creative inspirations. The “Hotline Bling” rapper has tats of Denzel Washington, Sade, the Beatles and, Rolling Stone notes, Rihanna eating ice cream. View this post on InstagramA post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Jun 19, 2019 at 10:01am PDTA couple of years ago, Drake reportedly told th

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters he was shocked to see photos of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in brown and blackface Friday.“I was hoping I wouldn’t be asked that question … You had to ask me that question, right?” Trump said at the White House, after a journalist asked if he thought Trudeau could survive the scandal. “I’m surprised. I was more surprised when I saw the number of times.” Photos have emerged of Trudeau dressed up in b

Megan Fox gives simple advice to her eldest son, Noah, who sometimes likes to wear dresses to school: “Be confident.”“Sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses sometimes,” Fox, who shares three boys with fellow actor Brian Austin Green, said during an interview on “The Talk” Thursday. She added that even though she sends Noah to a “really liberal, hippy school,” in California, he sometimes “still has littl

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TORONTO - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is promising to ban all military-style assault rifles as part of a broader gun-control plan that will also take steps towards restricting and banning handguns.Trudeau is making the pledge in Toronto as he tries to get his campaign back on track after apologizing for wearing blackface years ago.The Liberals also pledge to work with provinces and territories to empower municipalities to further restrict — or ban — handguns.Trudeau is making the a

Legendary Toronto-born actress Catherine O’Hara is nominated for an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series in “Schitt’s Creek.” If you haven’t watched the show, here’s why. If you’re already a fan, here’s a delicious recap. RELATED‘Schitt’s Creek’ Fans Give $20K To LGBT Youth Line For Dan Levy’s Birthday▶️Fans Invade Real ‘Schitt’s Creek’ As Show Comes To An En

Men dance … obviously. Still, even today, ballet is commonly stereotyped as a feminine activity “for girls,” and those few boys in most ballet classrooms tend to be outnumbered by about 20 to 1. This year, though, for the first time in its 60-year history, Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS) is seeing a shift: there will be more boys than girls in its graduating class.“I think for a long time in North America, especially in Canada, parents, especially father

TORONTO — Justin Trudeau opened the floor up to questions from voters Thursday in his first town hall of the 2019 election campaign — and the first since pictures of himself dressed in brownface and blackface were publicly released.The event in Saskatoon had been advertised two days prior and billed as a partisan rally, and the crowd was friendly. A girl kicked things off by asking what it felt like to be prime minister. But, quickly, the biggest scandal that has rocked this ele

White people have demonstrated time and again that they’re not to be trusted with brown makeup ― and Trevor Noah thinks it’s time to take serious action.Amid the blackface scandal involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, “The Daily Show” host said that when “white people get their hands on brown makeup, they just can’t help themselves.”The comedian proposed a buyback program to get blackface off the streets, and red flag laws for when you

SURREY, B.C. — A man who was photographed with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in brownface said he doesn’t view the costume he was wearing at a theme party in 2001 as racist.Sunny Khurana said his two children attended West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver, where Trudeau taught, and the school had a “very high standard.”“There was no tolerance for anyone who mistreated anyone or for any racism,” he said in an interview on Thursday at his Indian clothing sto

Nearly 1,000 workers at three luxury hotels in Vancouver walked off the job Thursday, as they continue to press for safer working conditions and more stable working hours.  Workers at the Hyatt Regency, Pinnacle Harbourfront and Westin Bayshore hotels launched an “indefinite strike” after contract negotiations broke down. They’ve been without a contract for over a year. “Throughout the spring and summer, we held rallies, we continued in bargaining, but the

SAINT-HYACINTHE, Que. — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s own past comments returned to the fore Thursday as his main rival for the country’s top political office admitted to repeatedly donning racist costumes and makeup.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau asked the country to forgive him Wednesday after two images of him wearing brownface or blackface, one from high school and one when he was a teacher at a posh Vancouver private school, came out through various media outlets. A t

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — An Alberta mother and father who treated their ill son with herbal remedies rather than get him medical attention have been acquitted in the boy’s death.The courtroom in Lethbridge, Alta., erupted into cheers when a judge ruled Thursday that David and Collet Stephan were not guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life to 19-month-old Ezekiel, who died in 2012.The medical examiner who did the autopsy testified that Ezekiel died of bacterial meningitis

OTTAWA — Federal officials have to act right away to avoid further risks of serious illness from vaping, eight Canadian health organizations said Thursday.The groups are asking for an interim order from Health Canada to curb the marketing of vaping products, restrict the flavours available and regulate their nicotine levels.Vaping products, the organizations say, should be treated the same way as tobacco products.“Youth vaping has become a public-health crisis,” Dr. Sandy Buchm

EDMONTON — A central Alberta man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his three daughters has been sentenced to 23.5 years.The man, whose name is under a publication ban so as to not identify the victims, pleaded guilty to 10 offences that also included sexual interference and a child pornography charge.The Crown had asked for a sentence of 29 years.All kids under 18The father was arrested in 2016 by a police internet child exploitation unit in Evansburg, a hamlet in a rural area west

TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carefully crafted public image as a global leader in inclusiveness and multiculturalism was swiftly shattered Wednesday night when a racist photo of him smiling in brownface and a turban went public. The 2001 photo from a prestigious Vancouver private school yearbook, shows Trudeau, then a teacher, with his hands and face painted brown at an “Arabian Nights” themed party. In short order, a second damaging image surfaced:

OTTAWA — A federal Liberal candidate in B.C. says his campaign signs were vandalized in an attempt to tie his campaign to recently surfaced racist images of the prime minister in blackface. Stephen Fuhr told HuffPost Canada Thursday that his face was coloured in — with the exception of his mouth and eyes — with thick, black marker. “All parties experience some sort of vandalism. It just kind of goes with the punches,” he said. “This was a little different