On May 1st the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will begin commercial operations.  It marks the end of a 12 year saga that included protests, legal challenges and the purchase of the pipeline itself by the federal government.  When Ottawa stepped in to buy TMX six years ago, it had an...

Mary Kajumba needed money to make a better life for her daughter. So, with the help of a placement agency she left her home in Uganda, and went to Iraq where she got a job as a restaurant cleaner. It wasn’t long after she realised she was in trouble. Mary says she found herself working 18 hour...

Over the past near-century, Academy Award categories have come and gone. In the silent film era there was an award for Best Title Writing. You know, the written cards that summarized the “dialogue”? Oscar worthy.  This year’s 96th Academy Awards broadcast saw Oscars handed out in a whopping 23...