Open this photo in gallery: Since the launch of its Amazon.ca storefront, the legion says it has received nearly 10,000 orders for poppies.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press The Royal Canadian Legion says a new partnership with e-commerce giant Amazon is helping boost its veterans’ fund, and will hopefully expand its donor …
Read More »In today’s Royal Canadian Navy, life brings modern conveniences, old rituals and hardships far from home
Open this photo in gallery: Lieutenant Andrew Pink, with binoculars, and Commander Tyson Bergmann look out from HMCS Vancouver’s bridge near the U.S. Navy port in Guam, where their ship was one of three Canadian vessels taking part in summer exercises in the Western Pacific.Photography by James Griffiths/The Globe and …
Read More »Sailor Isabella Bertold finds inspiration in everyone
Open this photo in gallery: Sailor Isabella Bertold.Photo illustration The Globe and Mail. Source photo: Royal Vancouver Yacht Club/Handout Isabella Bertold has conquered a few worlds. For four years, she worked as a venture capitalist investing in start-ups. She is a world-class sailor and was a member of Canada’s national …
Read More »Emma Bergesen scores U Sport golden goal for Cinderella Mount Royal Cougars, beat Concordia 4-3 in OT
The Mount Royal Cougars, dubbed the Cinderella team of the U Sports 2023 women’s hockey championship, are the new golden gals. Emma Bergesen scored at 11:10 of overtime on Sunday as the Cougars defeated the Concordia Stingers 4-3 in a dramatic finish to a superb game. The Stingers led 3-2 …
Read More »Totem at Royal B.C. Museum on way home to Central Coast after repatriation ceremony
Family, friends and hereditary chiefs gathered to witness the historical repatriation of the Nuxalk Nation totem pole, carved by the late Louie Snow, after years of effort to release the pole back to the nation from the Royal BC Museum during a ceremony in Victoria, B.C., on Feb. 13, 2023. …
Read More »Royal Bank CEO calls for ‘orderly’ climate transition amid criticism
Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Namoks, left, Madeek, centre, and Gisdywa traveled to confront and protest Royal Bank of Canada’s funding of Coastal GasLink pipeline and other fossil fuel investments in Toronto on April 7.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press An ambitious climate plan to cut emissions and sell cleaner energy to the world “could …
Read More »