Fatuma Adar is thrilled to be offering a Black Out night for “She’s Not Special,” her upcoming show with music opening next week for a five-night run at the Tarragon Mainspace Theatre. In fact, she’s so excited about the special May 26 performance aimed at Black audiences that she’s recording that night for comedy album posterity. “First of all, these people (who criticized Black Out nights) don’t go to the theatre,” said Adar. And I think Black Out nights help with that. Adar, who jokes that as a Black Muslim woman she’s a “triple threat,” is encouraged by the kind of diversity she’s seeing onstage these days.

From left to right, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie and Caledon Mayor Annette Groves shared their concerns and optimism about the province's decision to break up Peel Region during a news conference Thursday. Clark announced the bill at a news conference alongside Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown. WATCH | Caledon Mayor Annette Groves is optimistic about the process:Annette Groves, mayor of Caledon, also said she believes everything will be worked out. Regional by-laws and the disentanglement of regional services. Peel Region was created in 1974 by the government of former premier Bill Davis.

WestJet and its pilots' union reached a last-minute deal late Thursday, averting a strike ahead of the May long weekend, but hundreds of the carrier's Friday flights were cancelled. WestJet subsidiary Swoop had cancelled 31 flights, or 67 per cent of those scheduled for Friday. The airline had already cancelled about one-third of its flight load Thursday as negotiations with its pilots' union went down to the wire. WestJet pilots also wanted better scheduling. © Nav Rahi/CBC WestJet pilots picket outside Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.

Mortgage costs that have risen drastically are contributing to sticky inflation creating a “vicious feedback loop” that will be difficult to break, experts say. In April, as more Canadians renewed their mortgages at higher interest rates, mortgage interest costs shot up 28.5 per cent from a year ago. Without mortgage costs, headline inflation would be 3.6 per cent — much closer to the Bank of Canada’s target of around 2 per cent. “But I wouldn’t confuse this with thinking that higher interest therefore causes inflation … in this specific category, they do for a while. By raising prime rates the Bank has contributed to higher mortgage costs, which in turn, keeps inflation sticky, said mortgage broker Ron Butler.

The director of a short film about the 1950s relocation of Inuit from Hebron, an Atlantic Canadian community, hopes to raise awareness about this event among Canadians, and facilitate conversations about its aftermath. Andersen is a photographer based in Makkovik, one of the Labrador communities where many of the Hebron relocatees were sent. Inuit not consultedThe government in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador closed the northern Labrador communities of Hebron and Nutak in the late 1950s. Hebron Relocation – Still healing from the traumaThe provincial government issued a formal apology in 2005 and unveiled a memorial in Hebron in 2009 dedicated to the relocated residents. “Some families that have gone though [the relocation] don’t talk about it, so maybe the film can be a kind of conversation starter,” she said.

Canada agrees to multi-year daycare deal with Ontario provinceThe federal government takeover of Canada’s child care sector continues to go poorly. The deleterious effects of the government’s child care program have been widely reported in, among other places, the government-funded media. The total cost, including the portion of people’s tax bill that finances child care, is far higher. And if the quantity of child care available at $10 is effectively zero, then the advertised price tag is a lie. Those include health care, agriculture and the media — notwithstanding some illuminating reports in the government-funded media on the failures of government child care.

© Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press Telus says it has offered buyout packages to a portion of its workforce. Telecommunications giant Telus is looking to shed several hundred people from its Canadian workforce by offering buyouts to 2,000 people. USW Local 1944, which represents 6,500 Telus workers across the country, says 2,000 buyout packages have been offered. When asked for comment by CBC News, Telus said that while it has made the offer to 2,000 workers, it will cap the actual number of packages it would accept far lower. "We are offering a voluntary separation package to 2,000 team members, and anticipate several hundred to accept the offer.

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That bit of history is just one of the many inconsistencies stemming from our increasingly incomprehensible relationship with the British monarchy. It may be a component of our democratic tradition, but our democracy also involves incremental, progressive evolution away from monarchy. According to the survey, nearly 90 per cent of us who want to sever ties with the monarchy think those complicated constitutional debates are worth having. “Once we cease to think that the monarchy is important, that fact alone will render them unimportant,” said Hutchinson. With nearly three-quarters saying constitutional monarchy isn’t worth preserving, we may be only one major royal scandal away from reopening the Constitution.

The Kraken blocked 21 of Dallas’ shots Monday night — 13 of which came in the first period. Vegas led the NHL in blocked shots per 60 minutes this regular season with 17.94 a game. That’s a significant increase from the Kraken, which ranked 25th in the league in blocked shots in the regular season and fifth in the playoffs. According to statistical website Hockey Reference, Robertson ranked second on the Stars in the regular season in total shots and unblocked shots. The Stars also finished with the highest percentage of shots blocked as a team in the regular season at 28.18%.

KaSandra Kopytko was in a 150-vehicle convoy of people fleeing fires in northwest Saskatchewan this week. (Chanss Lagaden/CBC News - image credit)A nursing instructor says the flames and smoke from fires burning in northwest Saskatchewan were "shocking" to see. KaSandra Kopytko had a first-hand look, as she was in La Loche, then Île-à-la-Crosse, then Buffalo Narrows, as the fire situation kept changing. LISTEN | A Regina nurse who works in northern Saskatchewan was forced to leave Buffalo Narrows due to wildfires:Kopytko said that after that convoy left, the road was closed again. She used to live in Buffalo Narrows until moving to Saskatoon.

Perhaps it is his age — approaching a fit and robust 90 — but I fear his memory may be failing him. He and his Liberal government did not, in fact, bring in same-sex marriage. I have been tossed around the system all morning looking for a physician to renew her prescription, with the final statement being “Take her to Urgent Care.” Do we want to sit at Urgent Care for four or five hours for a simple renewal? Not likely when the name “Urgent Care” signifies why the facility is there. National Post and Financial Post welcome letters to the editor (150 words or fewer).

In the study, researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and Finland’s Aalto University, offered new projections for the mean sea level rise in Finland over the next century. “The greatest effects of sea level rise will only be felt after 2100,” the FMI said in a news release. “If we do not succeed in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, sea level may rise by several metres over the following centuries. “Sea level rise will increase flood risks on Finland’s southern coast in the coming decades,” the FMI said. “If global emissions could be mitigated quickly, the sea level in Helsinki would rise by about 9 cm by the end of this century,” the FMI said.

(Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP, File)Minnesota lawmakers have passed a bill that would provide more protection for warehouse workers who have to meet productivity quotas, a move aimed at helping employees at companies like Amazon. The protections were included in a broader omnibus bill passed 34-33 on Tuesday evening by the Minnesota Senate. AdvertisementThe bill prohibits companies from firing or taking any adverse actions against an employee for failing to meet a quota that has not been disclosed to them. The bill mirrors similar laws passed in recent years in New York and California that attempt to regulate how Amazon surveys workers in its vast number of warehouses. Amazon has said it doesn’t have fixed quotas, but has “performance expectations” for workers based on how their peers perform at particular sites.

While kelp is gaining popularity as a climate-friendly superfood, a new analysis is shining light on the economic opportunity it could present for one of Canada’s smallest provinces. On Wednesday, environmental charity Ecology Action Centre (EAC) released its Roadmap for Nova Scotia Kelp Farming. To put that in perspective, Atlantic Sea Farms — which produces the lion’s share of kelp in Maine, the hub of kelp farming in the United States — harvested one million pounds, which is around 453,000 kilos, of kelp in 2022. After decades of farming in the sea, he said he is amazed at how accessible kelp farming is. Once you put it out, you don't have to do anything.” Kelp harvesting in Nova Scotia.