Canada

The Tourism Industry Association of Canada has announced that Nancy Stibbard, owner and CEO of the Capilano Group, will be awarded the Tourism Toronto Canadian Tourism Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Canadian Tourism Awards. Nancy was raised on tourism. Her father, Rae Mitchell, purchased Capilano Suspension Bridge Park in 1953 and put her to work scooping ice cream, even ...

Animating Ralph Breaks the Internet not only entailed summoning bold imagination to bring the World Wide Web to life — it also meant tapping into fond memories to recreate beloved Disney characters. The film includes a hilarious sequence featuring classic princesses, and Vancouver-born animator Benson Shum got to meet the actress who voices Mulan in order to draw his favourite cartoon warrior. ...

Canadian Nobel Prize-winning scientist Frederick Banting has added yet another accomplishment to his illustrious resume — this time, posthumously, as an artist. Banting set a new auction record for his works Wednesday with the $313,250 sale of his 1925 painting of the University of Toronto laboratory in which he co-discovered insulin. Believed to be the painter-physician’s only known interior scene, The ...

Under the able guidance of one of the world’s top female hockey players and Olympian Hayley Wickenheiser and their hard work has brought India’s 1st Women’s Ice Hockey Team to Canada. India’s top female hockey players who learned the game against the odds, on frozen Himalayan ponds in Laddakh are in Airdrie, Alberta this week for the Wickenheiser Female World ...

The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF appointed Millie Bobby Brown, the star of hit Netflix series Stranger Things, as its youngest ever goodwill ambassador on Tuesday and the 14-year-old had a message for world leaders: “Listen to us.” “I want to raise issues about education and violence and ending bullying and … making sure children have a safe environment and clean water,” ...

Esi Edugyan, author of the novel Washington Black, has won this year’s $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 25th anniversary of Canada’s richest literary honour. It is the second Giller win for the Victoria, B.C.-based writer. “I wasn’t expecting to win,” she said as she got on stage to accept the award. “So I didn’t prepare a speech.” Published by Patrick Crean Editions, the novel ...

The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Monday that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow will address its annual dinner next year, breaking from its tradition of featuring an entertainer. The decision follows the pushback it received over comedian Michelle Wolf’s sharply anti-Trump performance last time. At a time of increasingly tense relations between U.S. President Donald Trump and the White House ...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas:   “Today, we join Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Buddhist communities in Canada and around the world to celebrate Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas. “This holiday – known as the Festival of Lights – symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness, and ...

Indian Diaspora in Kamloops kicked off the festivities with Kamloops Hindu Cultural Society organizing the Diwali 2018 – Celebration of Lights at Coast Hotel Ballroom. Welcoming the guests to the event, the president of the society Mr Mukesh Sharma also apprised the gathering about the various contributions their organisation has made to the Thompson River University and for the construction ...