Day: November 10, 2020

A British man has spent the better part of the last seven decades quietly honouring the sacrifice made by a Canadian airman who died in the closing months of the Second World War. In doing so, John Charlesworth is keeping a promise his grandmother made.

The significance of this year’s presidential election for U.S. climate policy came down to a basic difference between the two rivals. One candidate accepted the reality of climate change and wanted to do something about it. The other denied the threat and actively reversed attempts to combat it.

The B.C. agency responsible for the group home where Cree teen Traevon Chalifoux-Desjarlais died has seen the deaths of at least four other Indigenous youth in its care or aged out of its care, CBC News has learned. 

A man from the small town of Willingham, U.K., bought a special poppy pin in 2016, commemorating Pte. Michael J. Jackman of the Newfoundland Regiment, who died in Beaumont-Hamel in 1916. He recently contacted CBC News to help find one of the soldier’s living relatives.

The pandemic has led Canada’s immigration authorities to release most of the people who were being detained.