Pageant queen, makeup artist breaking barriers as Indigenous women in beauty industry

Ashley Callingbull is a woman of many faces. She’s an actress, model and pageant winner, will soon be an author and is getting ready to compete in Miss Universe Canada for the second time. She’s been in the pageant world since she was 18 years old. The 34-year-old has faced racism and other barriers but has accomplished … Read more

Céline Dion on her health issues and plans for a comeback: ‘I will sing again’

“When this whole thing started, if you put yourself in my shoes, I didn’t have a [diagnosis],” says pop icon Céline Dion.  It is spring in Las Vegas, and she’s speaking to CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault in an exclusive English Canadian interview. The topic that brought them together is, of course, what she is referring to now: … Read more

Atlantic whitefish are on the brink of extinction. Can a captive breeding program save them?

Scientists will implant tiny tracking tags in up to 200 captive-raised Atlantic whitefish this year as part of the effort to stave off extinction of one of Canada’s most critically endangered species. Three interconnected lakes behind the town of Bridgewater, N.S., are the only place on earth where this ancient relative of Atlantic salmon still … Read more

Space junk is raining from the sky. Who’s responsible when it hits the Earth?

In March 2022, a couple living in the rural town of São Mateus do Sul, Brazil, were shocked to find a 600-kilogram piece of smashed metal lying just 50 metres from their home.  Four months later, two Australian sheep farmers found a strange, black object that appeared to have embedded itself in a field.  Then last … Read more

What could a $5B government loan program do? Turn Indigenous communities into powerful investors

Downtown Toronto is a long way from most communities where the federal government’s Indigenous loan guarantee program will be put into action, but it’s where the buzz about the new $5-billion program could be heard this week. “I’m excited,” said Robert Michell, Chief of the Stellat’en First Nation in central B.C., “it changes the game.”  “It’s huge … Read more

Govt blocks URLs of Binance, 8 other crypto firms for illegal ops in India

New Delhi: India’s Financial Intelligence Unit has issued show-cause notices to nine offshore virtual digital asset service providers, including Binance, for operating in the country without complying with the money laundering laws, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday. Apart from Binance, notices have been issued to Kucoin, Huobi, Kraken, Gate.io, Bittrex, Bitstamp, MEXC Global, and … Read more