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Now that Canada Day is over with for another year, there is time for reflection on what there actually is to celebrate each July 1. Many Canadians feel they are celebrating an amazing country ...
On Canada Day, we celebrate the progress we made toward independence, the steps we took toward unity and the continued national pride we hold in our country. Through festivities like concerts, ...
For some Calgarians, it was a day to reflect on what it means to be Canadian in the face of ongoing U.S.-Canada tensions ...
As many in Saskatchewan celebrate Canada Day, the day holds many different meanings. Multiple immigrants to Canada share their stories to CBC's Blue Sky.
Nothing like a holiday week in Canada to turn our gaze to the United States as we sip a cold, physically distant one. Say, do they look like they’re about done with the current presidential ...
Every “Canada Day” is a day of reflection for me, as a Métis person with British/Ukrainian ancestry, about what decolonization looks like in the contemporary context. This year, however, my ...
Out of our serious trials of recent years, a different kind of Canada Day has taken shape, one more conscious and clear-eyed, and one that’s still evolving. First, COVID-19 shut down Canada Day. Then, ...
It will be a muted Canada Day in many parts of the country as grief and anger over the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools have made it hard for many Canadians ...
I was struggling with the notion of Canada Day being cancelled because of the recent, terrible news about Indigenous residential schools and the need to confront our nation’s past.
New citizens received Canadian flags, took an oath and sang O Canada. On Tuesday, Derek Normanton was one of 49 people who became Canadian citizens at a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of ...
This year, on the 156th anniversary of Confederation, there’s a sense of emerging from the worst of times while figuring out how to do Canada Day differently.