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Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre has been bursting at the seams for years, while most of its staff work in rental space across the street from the heritage-listed theatre. So they bought that building and will spend the ongoing pandemic downtime to renovate both spaces while also fundraising the second half of the $10.5-million project.

Originally set to end April 20, the health order affecting the province's COVID-ravaged food industry will stay in place at least until May. 

"The refusal of large numbers of people to trade long-term benefits for short-term conveniences doesn’t augur well for our shared future," writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Global wildlife trade a health and moral crisis, even in Canada, experts say

For the first time, the data agency will be offering the option to fill out the census online to every community this year, saying it is the safest and easiest method.

Through The Basket Project, Jack Tomé, Alex Mastromarini and Nathan Lee created bundles that they handed out to the city’s homeless population.

The mayor of a small Alberta border town says semi-trailers rolling through the community serve as a constant reminder of the pandemic's effect on the lives of community members.

Those holding our savings and mortgages and controlling the flow of money into coal, oil and gas — RBC and the rest of Canadian banking gang — need to wake up and smell the CO2, writes Richard Brooks, climate finance director with Stand.earth.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, COVID-19 experts say, even if it's hard to see it while more contagious virus variants plunge parts of Canada into the third wave of the pandemic.

Until COVID-19 hit, South Asian weddings were often elaborate affairs with hundreds, even thousands, of guests.

Many Indigenous communities are struggling to cope with dual states of emergency, thanks to the pandemic and its effects on those with mental illness and addictions.

The youth council at Opportunity For All Youth knows first-hand the barriers marginalized young people face finding employment and is working to reduce or eliminate them.

Sarah Wells pushed past injury to compete at the Olympics in London before just missing out on Rio, and now she’s equipping high school students with the skills to get over their own hurdles.

Originally planned for last summer, but put on hold due to the pandemic, Feast for the Eyes is a North Vancouver gallery’s newest exhibit.

Crucial investments and actions are missing, the Preventing Pandemics at the Source coalition said, leaving the world playing an “ill-fated game of Russian roulette with pathogens.”