Open this photo in gallery: Dancers Stephan Azulay, front left, and Tymin Keown, front right, rehearse for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods, which debuts April 25. Silhouetted against beams of fluorescent light shining from the ceiling of a vast studio, more than two dozen …
Read More »Royal Ontario Museum to return pipe, saddle bag to Chief Poundmaker’s family
A saddlebag that belonged to Chief Poundmaker.HO/The Canadian Press Century-old artifacts belonging to a 19th century Plains Cree chief who was known as a peacekeeper were returned to his descendants in a repatriation ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum. The Toronto-based museum transferred a ceremonial pipe and a saddle bag …
Read More »Prince Charles and Camilla’s royal visit starts in St. John’s today. Latest updates on their Canadian tour
Charles, Prince of Wales, greets people as he visits Canada House in London on May 12. He and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visit Canada from May 17 to May 19.HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Royal visit: Latest updates Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are …
Read More »Indigenous Canadians make a painful plea on eve of British royal visit
As Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla prepare to visit Canada this week, some members of the indigenous community are calling on the British royal family to formally acknowledge the harm colonization did to First Nations people. The royal couple will arrive in St. Johns, Newfoundland on Tuesday on …
Read More »Four cadets found dead after incident at Royal Military College
Cadets carry flowers at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont., on April 29.Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press Four military-officer cadets have died at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont., where investigators pulled a vehicle from the waters around the campus on Friday. “We can confirm that four RMC cadets …
Read More »Prince Charles and Camilla released their royal tour itinerary for Canada. Here’s where they’ll be going
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in London on March 14.Chris Jackson/Getty Images Charles, Prince of Wales, will make his 19th official visit to Canada on May 17 to 19 with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, ahead of an important milestone in his mother’s reign. The trip comes …
Read More »Court approves $10-million settlement in lawsuit over Royal Winnipeg Ballet photographer
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is apologizing to students on the same day a court approved a $10-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over allegations a former teacher and photographer took intimate photos and released them without consent. The dance company has posted on its website a one-page apology, which was …
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