The chimney swift is a bird threatened with extinction that nests in urban chimneys. Thanks to laws that protect it, some affordable housing providers have to come up with creative bird housing solutions before going ahead with human housing projects.
It might seem old-fashioned, but people in the business of door-to-door work say the industry’s survived because it stands out amidst growing distrust of marketing by phone or online advertising.
Photographers from CBC News, The Canadian Press, The Associated Press, Reuters and others document our changing world every day. Hereâs a selection of the week’s top images.
Kendra Hebert had never seen a visibly disabled physician and often questioned whether there was a place for her in medicine. Despite the challenges, she knows what sheâs fighting for.
Asylum seekers staying in federally-funded hotels will soon have to check out as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says that funding will end on Sept. 30. The department says it will help people staying in hotels find housing, but experts say that could be a tough task in cities with high demand and low supply.
As consumers have grown less worried about whether their diamonds are mined or made, many have turned to cost-friendly lab grown diamonds. And thatâs having a big impact on the diamond mining industry â including for Canada.
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau upended 150 years of Canadian parliamentary tradition when he unilaterally reformed the Senate. The new Liberal government is now weighing further changes to the Red Chamber.
Investigators were in a Maple Ridge, B.C., neighbourhood Friday morning as residents came to terms with a violent incident that claimed three lives Wednesday night.
