Category Archives: Canada
One year later: A look at the Fort McMurray wildfire and rebuild by the numbers
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - It’s been one year since a wildfire devastated parts of the northern Alberta city of Fort McMurray. Here is a look at the rebuild by the numbers: 1,595: Number of building...
May 03, 2017
Former CP editor-in-chief Scott White to head Conversation Canada
TORONTO - Scott White, who served as editor-in-chief of The Canadian Press for 16 years, has been appointed to lead The Conversation Canada. It’s a national non-profit journalism start-up expect...
May 03, 2017
St. John's Pride now welcoming uniformed police officers in Pride parade
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Pride committee in St. John’s, N.L., has reversed course and invited uniformed police officers to march in the city’s Pride parade this July. As police forces ...
May 03, 2017
The missing children of Canada's east coast: Census shows rapidly greying region
HALIFAX - Maitland District Elementary once bustled with activity. Today, the students are gone, the northern Nova Scotia school a symbol of the relentless exodus from Atlantic Canada that was made pl...
May 03, 2017
Soaring house prices, shifting lifestyles driving condo craze, experts say
TORONTO - Janis Isaman makes no apologies for raising her six-year-old son in a two-bedroom condominium - and for eschewing the once-coveted trappings of a life in the suburbs. “I definitely do ...
May 03, 2017
As Canada ages, elderly women confront challenges of going it alone
TORONTO - At age 80, Ada Garrison finds herself at a new beginning. A host of new friends, activities and challenges abound since a health scare prompted her to move into a retirement home in downtown...
May 03, 2017
Women outnumber men in Canada, but not by much, 2016 census shows
OTTAWA - Canadian women continue to make up the majority of the overall Canadian population, albeit just by a bit. The latest census figures released Wednesday show there were 97 men for every 100 wom...
May 03, 2017
Rapidly aging suburbs pose a challenge to residents, urban planners alike
TORONTO - Superheated housing market notwithstanding, 81-year-old Ashley Anthony says he has no plans to give up the detached three-bedroom suburban house he has lived in for the past 43 years. His th...
May 03, 2017
Highlights from Wednesday's census data on age and sex in Canada
OTTAWA - Some highlights from Wednesday’s release of Statistics Canada’s latest tranche of census data, this one focused on age, sex and dwelling types: - The inexorable march of baby boom...
May 03, 2017
StatCan says rapidly aging population still yields 'demographic dividends'
OTTAWA - After nearly four decades in the workforce, 64-year-old Louise Plouffe is looking ahead to retirement. But Tristan Plummer, 23, is looking for work. Plouffe and Plummer represent opposite end...
May 03, 2017