There’s something Aristotle said in his Poetics about the effective use of metaphor. Boiling it down, he observed that while coming up with metaphors takes genius, overstuffing your story with beautiful — but confusing — symbols doesn’t leave you with a timeless piece of art. Instead, you end up with “nothing but riddles or gibberish.”…
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee have voted to study the quickest path to federal government recognition of a Palestinian state. The move comes despite the objections of Conservative MPs on the committee, who argue that recognizing a Palestinian state in the absence of a negotiated agreement with Israel would be a…
Mila Mulroney says her new role at St. Francis Xavier University sounds like something her late husband would have orchestrated. “Brian was a bit of a control freak,” she said playfully in an interview with CBC chief political corespondent Rosemary Barton. “He was instrumental in this role. I think he’s watching from on high.” The widow…
Experts are raising concerns that the destruction of Kamloops’ historic Red Bridge, which collapsed into the South Thompson River during a fire, could have an impact on fish populations. Jason Hwang, vice-president of salmon programs at the Vancouver-based Pacific Salmon Foundation, said debris from the wooden truss bridge, which fell into the river on Thursday, could disrupt fish…
WARNING: This article contains details of abuse. A former teacher at a Winnipeg high school has been sentenced to five years in prison, after she was convicted of sexual assault following what a judge called an “inherently wrongful” months-long relationship with a teenage student. Chasity Findlay, now 39, began her relationship with the then 15-year-old boy after he “confessed…
Washington’s governor is set to attend an event at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla on Wednesday to mark the facility officially shutting down its death chamber. That same governor, Jay Inslee, issued a moratorium on executions early in his term, in 2014. Since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S. in the 1970s — after…
A Sikh independence activist is suing India for its alleged role in what’s described in court documents as two co-ordinated attacks, including one that resulted in the death of a temple leader in British Columbia. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, with the group Sikhs for Justice, says the civil lawsuit in the U.S. district court for southern New York…
The Toronto man responsible for the 2023 death of longtime CBC News producer Michael Finlay has been sentenced to three years in custody. With credit for time served, Robert Robin Cropearedwolf, 45, has about 20 months left to serve alongside three years probation. Justice David Porter handed down his sentence in the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto…
A body found eight years ago on the shores of Lake Huron has been identified as a man who set out to pedal and paddle thousands of kilometres from Alberta to his hometown in Ontario. Police confirmed the identity of Garnet Michael Nelson using genetic genealogy, including DNA tests, on Monday. Nelson was found on Oct. 15,…
Liberal House leader Karina Gould kicked off the fall sitting of Parliament Monday by calling Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a “fraudster” and a “bully” and accusing him of holding a secret agenda that Canadians won’t like. “What I heard yesterday from Mr. Poilievre was so over the top, so irresponsible, so immature and something only a fraudster…
