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No Need to Wait for October: Bronte Creek Ghost Walk Explores Victorian Death and the Paranormal
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (892+ words) Spruce Lane Farmhouse at Bronte Creek Provincial Park was the site of a guided ghost walk this month. Halton got an early start to the Halloween season with Bronte Creek Provincial Park’s annual two-day “Ghost Walks” earlier this month. The…...
Business events and festivals are driving a record tourism season in Montreal
1+ mon, 18+ hour ago (158+ words) A woman takes a picture of the new Bonjour Montreal in the Old Port Thursday, July 6, 2023 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz MONTREAL - Business events and festivals are helping Montreal tourism numbers soar this summer. Non-profit organization Tourisme Montréal…...
Being queer in the golden years
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (934+ words) Dr. Indira Riadi, executive director of Queer Aging BC, is planning to expand much-needed programming across the province. After decades of fighting to be seen and accepted, many queer seniors are facing a new challenge: aging in a system that…...
Conservative MPs launch fundraiser for LGBTQ+ refugees
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1022+ words) A person wearing a traditional Kenyan bracelet with the Canadian flag — who at the time was in the process of being sponsored as a refugee — stands in the stairwell at the headquarters of Rainbow Family Support and Advocacy-Africa, an organization…...
Ahead of World Refugee Day, coalition urges the Carney Government to strengthen protections for queer and trans refugees
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (884+ words) Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ahead of World Refugee Day, The 519 and Rainbow Railroad, alongside a coalition of community partners, are launching Defend Refugees, a new advocacy campaign urging Prime Minister Mark Carney and the federal government to strengthen…...
Activists for LGBTQ+ rights abroad urge Canada to double foreign aid for minorities
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (712+ words) Liberal MP Rob Oliphant arrives for a meeting of the Liberal caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sunday, May 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang OTTAWA - Global activists for gender and sexual minorities are urging Canada to double its aid…...
Canadians, in crucial moment, must decide on equality for all: LGBTQ advocate
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (224+ words) Parade grand marshal Fae Johnstone calls out chants through a megaphone during the Capital Pride Parade in Ottawa on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang An LGBTQ+ advocate says Canada is at critical juncture where it must decide whether…...
Schreiber resident collects tales of ‘paranormal encounters’
11+ mon, 3+ day ago (487+ words) SCHREIBER — Ghosts. Bigfoot. Possible alien visitors. A fox walking on two legs. Such phenomena that fall under the category of “paranormal” — meaning beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding — are described in Carson Trapp’s new book, Paranormal Encounters from the…...