Category Archives: Canada

Bus tours for Jasper residents whose properties were affected by fire to start Sunday
EDMONTON - Bus tours for evacuees from Jasper, Alta., to allow those whose homes were damaged or destroyed by a wildfire to see the damage first-hand will begin on Sunday. Joe Zatylny with the Alberta...
Aug 03, 2024

Protesters demand stronger Canadian response to 'rigged' Venezuelan election
TORONTO - Around 300 people gathered in downtown Toronto outside the Ontario legislature today to protest the results of the disputed Venezuelan election and to demand a stronger response from Ottawa....
Aug 03, 2024

Firefighters face heat warnings, thunderstorms, high winds across southern B.C.
VICTORIA - Rising temperatures, increasing wind speeds and dry lightning are forecast for southern British Columbia over the weekend in areas where major wildfires continue to burn in the Columbia, Ko...
Aug 03, 2024

Labour union vice-president endorses Tory candidate in federal byelection in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - The Conservative candidate in an upcoming federal byelection in Winnipeg has received an endorsement from the international vice-president of a major union in his bid to unseat the NDP in t...
Aug 03, 2024

B.C. makes flood plans for possible 'worst case' if landslide bursts from river
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - B.C.'s Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says the best-case scenario for a landslide blocking the Chilcotin River is a gentle clearing that doesn't take debris down the riv...
Aug 03, 2024

Forbidden fruit: Don't eat the food growing in downtown Ottawa planters, says NCC
OTTAWA - On the western side of Major's Hill Park, tall stalks of corn wave in the breeze from planters overlooking the place where the Rideau Canal empties into the Ottawa River. Scarlet beans have w...
Aug 03, 2024

Mother blasts MPs on House committee for 'disgusting' treatment of her daughter
OTTAWA - The mother of a witness who stormed out of a House of Commons committee in tears berated Liberal, NDP and Conservative members for a "disgusting" partisan display in a letter Friday that she ...
Aug 02, 2024

N.S. Black community prays for wounded, including 17-year-old girl, shot at reunion
HALIFAX - A week after shots were fired during a reunion of former residents of a historic Black community in Halifax, a teenager remains in hospital with a bullet in her body, and a local church has ...
Aug 02, 2024

Hot weather for B.C. long weekend expected to dry out forest fuels
The BC Wildfire Service says it now considers eight of the more than 300 fires burning across the province as "wildfires of note," as crews prepare for hot and dry conditions in the south of the provi...
Aug 02, 2024

Ottawa says Meta may still see Online News Act regulation — but CRTC wants more proof
OTTAWA - The Liberal government continues to insist that Meta may still be regulated under its Online News Act, as Facebook and Instagram users find loopholes to share articles despite its news ban. B...
Aug 02, 2024