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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, Quebec’s national holiday, took place on Wednesday, though it might not have looked like anyone was celebrating anything at all. Ordinarily, the streets would have been crammed for lively parades and raging parties, each event packed with people sporting blue. This year, though, the excitement was a little more subdued in light of our present health crisis. But celebration always finds a way, and so it did on Wednesday. Millions of French-speaking Canadia

Every day, it seems, another statue comes down.From crowds pulling down monuments to Confederate leaders in the United States to painting John A. MacDonald red here in Canada, there is a reckoning happening for the problematic figures of the past and the monuments and places built to honour them.It’s also prompted a reckoning on place names and the people they’re named after.Here in Canada, many provinces (and Canada itself) are named for misspellings of Indigenous words and phrases

Ever since the police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests in support of Black and Indigenous lives, more people in the public eye are being held accountable for their past and present racist actions and words.On Wednesday, Elaine “Lainey” Lui, the Lainey Gossip blogger and eTalk anchor sat down with her “The Social” co-hosts to apologize for racist and homophobic blog posts she wrote in the 2000s.“Those posts were racist, they were misogynistic, th

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is telling the prime minister to “put his money where his mouth is” when it comes to long-term care. Ford was reacting to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments Thursday that Canada’s provincially regulated long-term care system, which has been plagued by deadly COVID-19 outbreaks, isn’t working. “It is a provincial responsibility so it is them who have failed to support our seniors,” Trudeau told reporters Thursday

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says intervening to end the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to secure the release of two Canadians detained in China would “endanger” millions of others overseas.“We will continue to remain steadfast and strong, and say very clearly in our actions and in our words, that randomly arresting Canadians doesn’t give you leverage over the government of Canada, anywhere in the world,” he said at a press conference in Ottawa T

Pride, obviously, isn’t cancelled. It’s just gone online. And in the spirit of these weird, inhibitory times, many Canadian cities have digitized their Pride festivities, arranging Zoom parties or drag brunches or any other number of lively and exciting events, which are all accessible to anyone with a decent WiFi connection. Well, Netflix is determined not to cancel Pride, either. So to close off the month of June, the streaming giant has organized an event that, at first

HuffPost Canada Finds is committed to sourcing the best products that suit your needs. All of our picks are independently curated. At times, we may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page.When was the last time you got a solid night of good sleep? We’re inundated with so much news daily that, come nighttime, we find it hard to just let go of the day and rest. It doesn’t help if we don’t have the right tools to do that.Enter Casper.Casper is known for making p

TORONTO — A new study finds the proportion of Canadian COVID-19 deaths that have occurred in long-term care (LTC) facilities is about twice the average of rates from other developed nations.The analysis released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides a damning snapshot of senior care as of May 25, when LTC residents made up 81 per cent of all reported COVID-19 deaths in the country compared to an average of 42 per cent among all countries studied.The data

WestJet Airlines Ltd. says it will permanently lay off 3,333 employees as part of a major restructuring amid the coronavirus pandemic that has devastated the travel industry.The company plans to consolidate call centre activity in Alberta, restructure its office and management staff and contract out operations at all but four of the 38 Canadian airports where it operates, WestJet said in a release Wednesday.“Throughout the course of the biggest crisis in the history of aviation, WestJet ha

Nothing signals summer like the sizzle of the grill and we vegans (and vegetarians) are stepping up our BBQ game with tantalizing mains, sides, and appetizers that will entice even the most dedicated meat eaters and omnivores. Don’t worry if you don’t have an outdoor grill or are living in a small space; we’ve found that alternatives like the Ninja Foodi Grill easily create the same seared taste while functioning indoors like other kitchen appliances. But we also recognize

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s success at flattening the curve on COVID-19 will allow the easing of more restrictions on businesses, recreation and travel, says Premier John Horgan, who urged people to celebrate carefully when visiting a lake or the beach.The premier said Wednesday the gradual move into B.C.’s third phase allows hotels, motels, spas, resorts, hostels, RV parks, provincial campgrounds and the film industry to resume operations after being shut down or restri

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Charges were dropped against a prominent northern Alberta First Nations chief Wednesday as it was revealed that one of the officers involved in his violent arrest had been charged in an off-duty assault seven months earlier.The case of Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation was in front of a Fort McMurray provincial court judge Wednesday when charges of resisting arrest and assaulting an RCMP officer were withdrawn by the Crown.The move came after R

OTTAWA — Asylum seekers continue to cross the Canada-U.S. border despite the widespread closure that remains in effect to all but non-essential travel.New statistics show 21 people were apprehended by the RCMP crossing into Canada from the U.S. in May, up from just six who were stopped in April.That was the first full month of the historic shutdown of the border between the two countries in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19.The closure deal carved out exceptions for essential

When Torontonians were spotted crowding beaches this past weekend, the public shaming followed. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the photos that came out of Cherry Beach looked more like South Beach, Florida.“And you’ve seen what happened down in Florida,” said Ford during a Monday briefing. “There [were] 4,000 cases in one day the other day.”This wasn’t the first time Ford had commented on preemptive large gatherings taking place in Toronto. Residents were prev

OTTAWA — A powerful Senate committee is accused of failing to perform “elementary, basic” administrative actions in its handling of a case involving alleged victims of workplace and sexual harassment.A memo dated Tuesday, obtained by HuffPost Canada, was sent to members of the internal economy, budgets and administration committee (CIBA) from a lawyer representing two ex-employees of former senator Don Meredith. The committee, which is responsible for the Senate’s spendin