Bridget Lawson, centre, worked in Africa in later life for AMREF, a non-governmental organization that provides health care in East Africa. From 1984 to 1990, she was executive director of AMREF Canada and travelled to Africa twice a year.Courtesy of the Family The Second World War first altered the life …
Read More »Royal Ontario Museum ‘pauses’ Indigenous gallery for consultations to change exhibits
Items on display from the communities of the Plains are photographed at the Royal Ontario Museums in the Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art and culture, in Toronto on July, 2019.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail The Royal Ontario Museum has temporarily closed its First Nations gallery after conversations …
Read More »Globe editorial: Canada is not the country it was in 1952. We grew up with Queen Elizabeth II
In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II made a 45-day visit to Canada. One of CBC television’s top personalities then was Joyce Davidson; during the royal visit, she was a guest on NBC’s Today show in the United States, and was asked what she thought. “Like most Canadians,” she said, “I am …
Read More »Welcome to Liz Truss’ Britain. Everyone’s going on strike – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain’s new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike. Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and …
Read More »RBC CEO says employees should be in the office more often
RBC chief executive Dave McKay speaks at the Royal Bank of Canada annual meeting in Toronto on April 6, 2017.Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press The chief executive of Canada’s largest bank is urging employees to return to the office more frequently, and is saying the bank must become more deliberate about …
Read More »Real estate brokerage Royal LePage cuts Canadian home price forecast for 2022
Royal LePage is cutting its expectations for the growth in home prices this year after it says prices in the second quarter fell compared with the first three months of the year. The real estate brokerage says it now expects the aggregate price of a home in Canada in the …
Read More »Opinion: Reforms to Canada’s ineffective Royal Military Colleges are long overdue
Members of the graduating class are shown during a Celebration of Life at RMC for the four fallen cadet officer in Kingston, Ont., on May 19.LARS HAGBERG/The Canadian Press Ken Hansen is an independent defence and security analyst who retired from the Royal Canadian Navy in 2009 in the rank …
Read More »Prince Charles and Camilla meet with Ottawa’s Ukrainian community as royal tour continues for second day
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are presented with bread and salt during a visit to a Ukrainian church in Ottawa on their royal tour of Canada on May 18.PAUL CHIASSON/AFP/Getty Images Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, embarked on the second day of a visit to …
Read More »Prince Charles and Camilla meet with Ottawa’s Ukrainian community as royal tour continues for second day
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are presented with bread and salt during a visit to a Ukrainian church in Ottawa on their royal tour of Canada on May 18.PAUL CHIASSON/AFP/Getty Images Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, embarked on the second day of a visit to …
Read More »Tk’emlúps chief disappointed in Pope, Royal Family’s visit plans
Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Chief Rosanne Casimir stands outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School after speaking to reporters, in Kamloops, B.C., on June 4, 2021.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press The Chief of the First Nation that touched off an international reckoning with Canada’s Indian Residential School system says she is disappointed …
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