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Centenarian survivors of Pearl Harbor attack return to honour those who perished 82 years ago
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 07: 102-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces Lt. Col. George Burson (C) and U.S. Army veteran George Arnstein (L) participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the National World War II Memorial December 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. Friends of the National World War II Memorial held the ceremony to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Studio maestro Peter Moore was renowned for work with Cowboy Junkies and a legendary Dylan tape
Canadian music producer-engineer Peter Moore. Handouts.
opinion
Radical chic has become the look of the moment
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
music
Shane MacGowan, front man of The Pogues, dies at 65
FILE - Shane MacGowan poses for photographers upon arrival at the Shane MacGowan, The Eternal Buzz & The Crock of Gold Exhibition in London, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and best known for 'Fairytale of New York,' has died at 65, his wife said on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (Photo by Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
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Twelve-year-old died by suicide after online sexual extortion, parents say
A woman types on a laptop on a train in New Jersey on May 18, 2021. A panicked 14-year-old from British Columbia and his family paid $1,500 to a company that claimed it would recover intimate images that were being used to extort him. It didn't. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jenny Kane
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Saskatchewan seniors home afflicted by drug use, vandalism
Brent Patterson, a resident at a government seniors housing building, speaks to reporters in Regina, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, about problems at the High Park building in Moose Jaw, Sask. He says people with mental health challenges and addictions are using drugs in stairwells and defecating in the elevator. Darlene Goethals, also a resident of the building, stands next to him. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeremy Simes
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B.C. parents warn of ‘predators’ after sexual extortion suicide of 12-year-old son
The RCMP logo is seen outside the force's 'E' division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Police in Richmond, B.C., say multiple charges have been laid against a 34-year-old man allegedly involved in a September 2022 home invasion where thieves made off with $10 million in cryptocurrency. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Montreal police investigating after ‘Molotov cocktail’ thrown at Jewish centre
Police search for clues at Talmud Tora school after shots were fired at two Jewish schools Thursday, November 9, 2023 in Montreal. Montreal police say two Jewish schools in the city were hit overnight by gunshots. Police say nobody was inside at the time of the shootings. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Why Victoria is the most livable city in Canada
Victoria water taxi travels across the inner harbour on November 20th 2023
obituary
Amateur ethnographer Norman Hallendy created a valuable record of a shifting Inuit culture
Norman Hallendy with Inuk elder Oksurallik on Baffin Island Photos of Norman Hallendy, an amateur ethnographer who had a fascination with the Arctic and wrote several books about the lives and culture of the Inuit
british columbia
In Vancouver, Jewish and Palestinian restaurants try to find a new normal
Owner Yaniv Maymon bags some pastries for a customer at Cafe Forty One, in Vancouver, B.C, on Wednesday, November 22, 2023. Tijana Martin/ The Globe and Mail
canada
Mosque, rabbi unite to condemn hateful attacks across Canada
After a man allegedly called a group of Muslims "terrorists" before nearly striking them with a boulder outside a Toronto area mosque where kids and adults were gathered to pray, a rabbi sent a message to the worshippers to express sympathy. People attend prayers at the Toronto Islamic Centre on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marta Iwanek
opinion
On housing affordability, the Liberals stick with the low-hanging fruit
Kelly Cryderman
canada
Penticton neighbourhood evacuated over concerns about potential for rockslide
British Columbia's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa, Ont., Friday July 3, 2020. The City of Penticton says it has temporarily evacuated 24 properties in a mobile home park over fears of a potential rock slide. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Vancouver councillor pitches ‘potentially transformational’ plan for the city’s Downtown Eastside
Hastings Street, west of Columbia Street is pictured in Vancouver, B.C.’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (Kayla Isomura/The Globe and Mail)
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In tight-knit community of Nir Oz, survivors of the massacre mourn those lost and a way of life that may never return
An Israeli volunteer carries a calf on November 14, 2023, at a dairy farm at the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip attacked on October 7 by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Thousands of volunteers signed up to temporarily replace foreign workers who were killed, abducted or forced to flee during the October 7 attacks, when Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)
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A year after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado, community feels supported but says work remains
FILE - Kebrina Chirdon lights candles at a memorial outside of Club Q on Nov. 25, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. After the mass shooting last November at the LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen’s birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people. (Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP, File)
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French Holocaust survivors are recoiling at new antisemitism, and activists are pleading for peace
Police officers detain a pro-Palestinian protester that took part in a sit-in demonstration at Waterloo Station calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, in London, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
life
Memphis designs a great green space for everyone
Tom Lee Park, Memphis, Tenn.
life
Bilal Baig on saying goodbye to CBC’s Sort Of and finding creative confidence
Off Duty image of Bilal Baig
politics
Elon Musk under fire for not taking down antisemitic tweets in Canada
FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File photo
first person
This is no dead-end job: why I enjoy selling burial plots
style
These women are reclaiming yoga and wellness spaces for racialized communities
The Villij, a wellness organization for women of colour which opens their Toronto studio this week (Nov 9). photos of the space and the yoga events. photos of the founders, Kim Knight and Shanelle McKenzie,
opinion
Who we are, and must be, as Canadians
The Editorial Board
opinion
My grandparents survived the Holocaust. I’m not going anywhere
Shawna Cohen
canada
Antisemitism a growing concern after spike in hate-related incidents
Indigo at Bay and Bloor, in Toronto on November 10, 2023 where antisemitic messages and paint were put on the windows and doors of the store.
report on business
Pitching in: Programs for Black and racialized neurodiverse young people
interview
Barbra Streisand, the ‘most lied-about woman in the world,’ is setting the record straight
(FILES) US singer Barbra Streisand performs onstage during the Grammy Awards Show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 13, 2011. Superstar Barbra Streisand is capping her storied career with a nearly 1,000-page memoir out on November 7, 2023, musing on her childhood, Broadway breakout and storied Hollywood love life. Across 992 pages Streisand, beloved for her voice as well as her myriad acting roles including "Funny Girl," "A Star Is Born" and "The Way We Were," discusses the pressures of the industry and double standards for women artists: "sometimes I felt like my nose got more press than I did," she writes. (Photo by MARK RALSTON / AFP) (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Why do people hate Israel?
Marsha Lederman
style
In the age of online dating, is matchmaking making a comeback?
music
Dolly Parton has some thoughts on rock ’n’ roll, Taylor Swift and her favourite Elvis story
world
America Ferrera urges for improved Latino representation in film during academy keynote
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 07: America Ferrera speaks onstage during Glamour Women of the Year 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 07, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Glamour)
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Jewish communities in Canada shaken by spike in hate incidents since onset of Israel-Hamas war
Police investigate the Yeshiva Gedolah school for clues after shots were fired at two Jewish schools Thursday, November 9, 2023 in Montreal. Montreal police say two Jewish schools in the city were hit overnight by gunshots. Police say nobody was inside at the time of the shootings. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
film
Denys Arcand comments on culture wars in social satire Testament
New film by director Denys Arcand. Testament. NESTRUCK interview with French-Canadian icon Denys Arcand, director of Testament
politics
Justin Trudeau decries ‘terrifying’ rise in antisemitism, growing Islamophobia
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters as he arrives to a caucus meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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One of the exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ wins New York City Council seat
Yusef Salaam, exonerated 'Central Park Five' member, speaks to supporters and the media after winning a New York City Council seat during a watch party at "Just Lorraine's Place 2" bar in Harlem, New York on November 7, 2023. Salaam, one of five African-American and Hispanic teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989, one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in the United States, was elected to the New York City Council on November 7, 2023 evening, a highly symbolic victory celebrated in his Harlem neighborhood. (Photo by Cecilia SANCHEZ / AFP) (Photo by CECILIA SANCHEZ/AFP via Getty Images)