Canada is in for another warm year in 2023, David Phillips, senior climatologist for Environment and Climate Canada told Humber News on Monday.“Anybody that denies climate change is on a different planet. All seasons, all places, all sectors are being affected by this runaway warming,” Phillips said. “Warming does cause more extreme weather disasters — The easiest forecast is to...

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Danielle Smith has served as Alberta’s premier for only a few months and has already managed to anger, insult and disregard many marginalized and racialized communities here in Canada. Since assuming the role of premier and taking office, Smith has pushed hard against the federal government and has gone as far as saying she is fighting for Albertan sovereignty. According...

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Reality television became popular in the mid-to-late 2000s with shows like The Simple Life, America’s Next Top Model and 16 and Pregnant. But as the years pass, many look back on these shows today and see them as toxic. Take The Real Housewives of Orange County, a show created in 2008 centred around the rich and fabulous lives of southern...

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In just two days the FIFA World Cup will have the final chapter of its 2022 tournament written in the history books as defending champions France look to upset Argentine fans' dream of watching their captain and hero Lionel Messi lift the glorious prize. It was a World Cup that was filled with mixed feelings and emotions from both football...

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Pimps, drug dealers and prostitutes. A rejection of the clean-cut Sidney Poitier’s brand of the "good" Black man — Blaxploitation was a cry to be heard and what a sound it made. Born from the need to be represented and nurtured to counter the popular pigeon-holing of Blackness, Blaxploitation burst onto the scene during the 1970s, marketed to a Black...

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Tom Brady has looked tired and sluggish, and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers sit at 6-6 with the season beginning to sour when the team started 3-5, marking the first time Brady has ever been two games under .500 in his playing career. But contributing to the on-the-field struggles is the quarterback's recently chaotic personal life. In the past few months,...

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Toronto’s homelessness rates continue to surge just as the cold weather settles in for another winter. What is the city doing to prevent leaving people abandoned to live in the streets? Not enough. People are being left in the cold to freeze, starve and stay in unsafe environments overnight because shelters are overcrowded. In a study from Statistics Canada, three...

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As a boy I'd always looked around and had seen God. My family was among the more than 19 million Canadians who identify as Christian, making up roughly 53 per cent of the population according to Statistics Canada. We used to be a textbook religious household. We went to church every few days, went to Sunday school and I was...

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The Ford government hasn’t exactly endeared itself to the general public of late. After invoking the notwithstanding clause when the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) threatened to strike and announced that they plan to strip parts of the Greenbelt in order to develop homes, Ford and his government struck lighting again. They intend on appealing an Ontario Superior Court...

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A 22-year-old gunman walked into a nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., and opened fire. The result was devastating. The violence lasted only minutes, but 25 people were wounded in the carnage and five were murdered. Club Q, a local and popular LGBTQ+ club in the city, became the site of one of the worst attacks on the community in recent...

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