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‘Dad kicked me out and sent me back to my mother’: Martha Wainwright

The Canadian musician opens up about the men in her life, including her father Loudon and brother Rufus.

  • Jane Rocca

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A man talks on his phone as he looks through the haze at the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey, after a wave of fires in Canada blanketed the New York area in smoke.

Fire and (melting) ice: Record temperatures in Asia, wildfire smoke cloaks US

Scientists say the warning bells on climate change are at a deafening pitch as temperature records are being broken in Asia and North America is choked by smoke.

  • Miki Perkins
It’s similarity to the Russian President has forced Canadians to rethink chip, gravy and cheese curd dish, poutine.

Boycott Russia, not its people

We need to remember that many Russians chose to work in other countries rather than live under Putin’s regime.

  • Lucy Burton
The new law stops government workers in “positions of authority” wearing religious symbols like the hijab, but excludes teachers. Opponents say the law runs contrary to the culture of respect for individual rights and religious freedoms taught in schools.

Quebec can bar government workers from wearing hijabs, turbans, court rules

The law includes a clause that exempts employees already in their positions from the ban but they would lose the exemption if they were promoted or moved elsewhere.

  • Amanda Coletta
Just one of the ways to serve up Quebec City’s poutine dish.

Quebec’s poutine is anything but routine

The dish of chips, curds and gravy might be a national favourite, but there’s much more to the Canadian province's cuisine.

  • Catherine Marshall

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/qbc-19i