Tu Thanh Ha
The Globe and Mail
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Canada’s latest building codes don’t account for more severe climate
A recent Globe and Mail investigation on the state of building codes across the country found that they lack measures to deal with the increasing frequency and severity of weather events such as floods, storms or extreme heat → Read More
Mohawk wrestler was ‘hugely influential’ during 1990 crisis
After his pro wrestling career, during which he was a household name in Britain, he became a high-profile member of the Kahnawake council and a right-hand man to Grand Chief Joseph Norton → Read More
Unless building codes catch up to extreme heat, Canada’s future summers will be even deadlier
B.C.’s ‘heat dome’ of 2021 was a frightening foretaste of global warming. Since then, builders and researchers have stepped up pressure on authorities to make sure buildings have better defences against rising temperatures → Read More
As tornadoes in Canada get more destructive, momentum builds for new building codes to save homes
If a twister hits your house, hurricane straps will do a better job of keeping the roof attached – but no province or territory requires you to have them. That’s just one of the things researchers and builders hope to address as climate change accelerates → Read More
They waterproofed their homes. Quebec’s outdated building codes left them vulnerable
Strategies that could have prevented Sainte-Marie’s houses from being dislodged by 2019 flood not found in codes or bylaws despite likelihood of an increase in probability of extreme events on the Chaudière River in coming years → Read More
Code minimum: Your home isn’t built for extreme weather
Canada’s building codes are out of date, inconsistent and ill-prepared for climate change → Read More
Why Quebec’s family doctor crisis is the worst in Canada
For nearly 30 years, compulsory staffing policies for hospitals have short-changed primary care in this province. Now, GPs’ advocates are pressing for change → Read More
Canada has more family doctors than ever. Why is it so hard to see them?
Primary care is getting less accessible and involves longer waiting times, a Globe analysis has found. For health officials hoping to change that, a big obstacle is the lack of data about where physicians are working and where the shortages are → Read More
François Legault rejects calls for Quebec electoral reform
In 2018, François Legault pledged to reform Quebec’s electoral system. Now, as opposition parties cry foul, the premier says he will uphold a different pledge – a promise not to reform the system → Read More
Quebec re-elects François Legault with landslide majority
Coalition Avenir Québec wins more seats after a bitter campaign that saw the party vow to limit immigration, preserve the French language and extract more powers from Ottawa → Read More
Toronto celebrates 50 years of Ismaili Muslim community in the city
Members of the Ismaili community were invited to the Ismaili Centre on Sunday to hear Mayor John Tory announce that he had bestowed a Key to the City to the Aga Khan → Read More
Legault put on defensive over cost of living, environment in final Quebec election debate
All four opposition parties find themselves bunched around 15 per cent in the polls, with no clear challenger to CAQ Leader François Legault. That left Legault fighting on four fronts → Read More
Relatives of residents who died in Quebec’s Herron nursing home to file complaint against doctors
The move to lodge a formal complaint comes a year after provincial prosecutors said they would not file criminal charges in connection with Herron, where 47 residents died in squalid conditions in the spring of 2020 → Read More
Pope Francis rules there is insufficient evidence to open probe into Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet
Ouellet is facing allegations of sexual assault as part of a class-action lawsuit in Quebec → Read More
Sexual assault allegations could harm Quebec cardinal Marc Ouellet’s papacy hopes, says Vatican observer
A woman has accused Cardinal Ouellet of sexual assault when she served as a pastoral intern between 2008 and 2010 in Quebec City → Read More
Quebec cardinal Marc Ouellet accused of sexual assault in class-action lawsuit
Former archbishop of Quebec City is accused of inappropriately massaging and touching a woman’s lower back over the course of several public events between August, 2008, and February, 2010 → Read More
Ripudaman Singh Malik, acquitted in 1985 Air India bombings, shot dead in Surrey, B.C.
School founded by Malik, who was acquitted for charges related to Canada’s worst mass murder, confirms death → Read More
Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher, former Quebec Hells Angels leader, dies at 69 from cancer
Boucher’s criminal empire collapsed in a major crackdown in 2001 → Read More
Holocaust survivor Max Eisen made sure the world never forgot Auschwitz’s horrors
At schools, ceremonies and the 2015 trial of a former concentration-camp guard, he kept a promise to his father to bear witness to the Nazis’ atrocities → Read More
Gun violence in America, told through seven charts
There is no single, comprehensive data set that documents gun violence and mass shootings in America. The following charts highlight different aspects of this complex issue → Read More