Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - About a year after Yi Jiang and her family moved to Ottawa from China, they found themselves sharing a two-bedroom apartment with her parents. After living together in Shenzhen, it seemed on...

SURREY, B.C. - Laura and Jen O’Connor got married for all the romantic, fairy-tale reasons: after seven years together, they were deeply in love and wanted to start a family. But on another leve...

OTTAWA - The share of the population that can speak both of Canada’s official languages hit an all-time high in 2016, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday in its latest batch of census numbers -...

TORONTO - With their only child grown up with a family of her own, Louise Hutchison and Dave Sharp were enjoying the freedom of being empty-nesters: travelling, getting together with friends and, of c...

OTTAWA - Highlights from Wednesday’s latest batch of data from the 2016 census, this one focused on families, households, marital status and language: - The Canadian household averaged just 2.4 ...

OTTAWA - Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are blossoming, multiple generations are living under the same roof and more people than ever are liv...

HALIFAX - The mental health expert who looked into a spate of Cape Breton teen suicides says authorities have to look beyond bullying in their response. “I think there is this tendency to assume...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The first North Atlantic right whale to turn up dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence was a 10-year-old male, back on June 7. Researchers had spotted it just six weeks earlier in C...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 2 --- LATEST BATCH OF CENSUS DATA OUT TODAY Statistics Canada will shine a light today on Canadian families, how they live and the languages they speak, in...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is beefing up its team in the United States as it prepares a full court press to defend Canada’s interests in the looming renegotiation of the North American Free...