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  • U.S. places sanctions on four ICC officials, including Canadian
    The United States has issued new sanctions against senior officials with the International Criminal Court, including against a Canadian jurist, threatening to increase friction between Ottawa and Washington as trade talks continue.The U.S. sanctioned two of the court’s deputy prosecutors as well as two judges, a French jurist and Kimberly Prost, a University of Manitoba graduate who spent nearly two decades with Justice Canada before moving overseas.
     

U.S. places sanctions on four ICC officials, including Canadian

20 août 2025 à 21:38
The International Criminal Court building in The Hague, the Netherlands, in 2019. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the court a 'national security threat.'

The United States has issued new sanctions against senior officials with the International Criminal Court, including against a Canadian jurist, threatening to increase friction between Ottawa and Washington as trade talks continue.

The U.S. sanctioned two of the court’s deputy prosecutors as well as two judges, a French jurist and Kimberly Prost, a University of Manitoba graduate who spent nearly two decades with Justice Canada before moving overseas.

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  • RCMP charge Montreal minor with terrorism offences involving Islamic State
    The RCMP have arrested a Montreal boy on terrorism-related charges, alleging he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was planning at least one attack.The Mounties said Wednesday that they arrested the boy without incident in the city’s Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, and police were still searching a four-storey apartment there Wednesday afternoon. Authorities did not release the minor’s name or age. Corporal Érique Gasse said the public was never in danger and that polic
     

RCMP charge Montreal minor with terrorism offences involving Islamic State

20 août 2025 à 21:52

The RCMP have arrested a Montreal boy on terrorism-related charges, alleging he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was planning at least one attack.

The Mounties said Wednesday that they arrested the boy without incident in the city’s Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, and police were still searching a four-storey apartment there Wednesday afternoon. Authorities did not release the minor’s name or age.

Corporal Érique Gasse said the public was never in danger and that police began their investigation in April. The RCMP found the boy allegedly intended to acquire weapons, such as AK-47s, for the attack.

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RCMP personnel enter a building during an active investigation in Montreal, on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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  • Federal probe into deadly listeria outbreak finds major flaws with algorithm guiding inspections
    A federal investigation into a deadly listeria outbreak last year has found significant flaws with an algorithm-based system deployed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that oversees how often food-production facilities are inspected.A report by CFIA Inspector-General Scott Rattray also found the agency has failed to meet its annual inspection targets – and that a large number of facilities have not been scrutinized because of weaknesses in the system.
     

Federal probe into deadly listeria outbreak finds major flaws with algorithm guiding inspections

20 août 2025 à 21:11
Joriki Inc., the company that owned the Pickering, Ont., facility that was linked to a deadly listeria outbreak last year, filed for protection from creditors in January.

A federal investigation into a deadly listeria outbreak last year has found significant flaws with an algorithm-based system deployed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that oversees how often food-production facilities are inspected.

A report by CFIA Inspector-General Scott Rattray also found the agency has failed to meet its annual inspection targets – and that a large number of facilities have not been scrutinized because of weaknesses in the system.

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  • Low salaries for federal judges hamper effort to recruit top talent, federal commission says
    Judges for top courts across Canada are underpaid and should receive raises of about 7 per cent to ensure highly qualified candidates continue to apply for jobs behind the bench, according to a commission that reviews judges’ salaries.The proposed raise would increase the salary of most federally appointed judges to $424,700 from $396,700. There are 968 full-time and 230 part-time judges sitting on federally appointed benches, which include provincial superior and appeal courts, the Federal and
     

Low salaries for federal judges hamper effort to recruit top talent, federal commission says

20 août 2025 à 21:04
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. A raise proposed by a federal commission would add around $28,000 to most federally appointed judges’ salaries.

Judges for top courts across Canada are underpaid and should receive raises of about 7 per cent to ensure highly qualified candidates continue to apply for jobs behind the bench, according to a commission that reviews judges’ salaries.

The proposed raise would increase the salary of most federally appointed judges to $424,700 from $396,700. There are 968 full-time and 230 part-time judges sitting on federally appointed benches, which include provincial superior and appeal courts, the Federal and Tax courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

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  • NBA champion Luguentz Dort honoured at Montreal City Hall
    After reaching the pinnacle of the NBA with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Luguentz Dort was in the heights of Old Montreal to receive an honour at City Hall on Wednesday.Dort signed the city’s registrar, known in French as the “Livre d’Or,” while Mayor Valérie Plante highlighted his community involvement and excellence on the court.
     

NBA champion Luguentz Dort honoured at Montreal City Hall

20 août 2025 à 20:34
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort signs the Golden Book as Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante speaks with team mascot Rumble the Bison, during a ceremony in his honour at City Hall in Montreal, on Wednesday.

After reaching the pinnacle of the NBA with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Luguentz Dort was in the heights of Old Montreal to receive an honour at City Hall on Wednesday.

Dort signed the city’s registrar, known in French as the “Livre d’Or,” while Mayor Valérie Plante highlighted his community involvement and excellence on the court.

MAGA-affiliated singer Sean Feucht denied permit for concert in West Kelowna, B.C.

20 août 2025 à 19:53
California Christian musician Sean Feucht sings to a crowd during a rally in Washington, in 2020.

The City of West Kelowna, B.C., has cited public safety to deny a permit for a concert by American Christian singer Sean Feucht, who is outspoken in the Make America Great Again movement.

The city said in an emailed statement on Wednesday that the permit for a concert in Memorial Park on Saturday had been sought by the Burn 24/7 Canada Worship Ministries Society.

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  • Nova Scotia battling out-of-control wildfire, with one eye on Hurricane Erin
    Scott Tingley with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources says it’s rare to be simultaneously monitoring a hurricane while fighting wildfires in the province.The Long Lake wildfire in the Annapolis Valley remains out of control, and is composed of a series of fires that cover roughly 32 square kilometres of land. Meanwhile Hurricane Erin, tracking northward between the Carolinas and Bermuda, is expected to bring strong winds to Nova Scotia by Friday into Saturday – but no rainfall.
     

Nova Scotia battling out-of-control wildfire, with one eye on Hurricane Erin

20 août 2025 à 18:48
A water skimmer flies over the evacuation area where firefighters are battling the Long Lake wildfire in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County on Tuesday.

Scott Tingley with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources says it’s rare to be simultaneously monitoring a hurricane while fighting wildfires in the province.

The Long Lake wildfire in the Annapolis Valley remains out of control, and is composed of a series of fires that cover roughly 32 square kilometres of land. Meanwhile Hurricane Erin, tracking northward between the Carolinas and Bermuda, is expected to bring strong winds to Nova Scotia by Friday into Saturday – but no rainfall.

Canada Games affected by Air Canada strike with athletes, families stuck in St. John’s

20 août 2025 à 18:15
An Air Canada plane gets a pushback from its gate at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval, Que., on Tuesday.

For Canada Games Council CEO Kelly-Ann Paul, the timing of Air Canada’s strike was nothing short of “surreal.”

Air Canada grounded thousands of flights last Saturday when its flight attendants went on strike. This disrupted the Canada Games in St. John’s, N.L., which run Aug. 8-25, with teenage athletes from across the country flying in and out throughout.

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  • Furniture maker Klaus Nienkamper was a champion of contemporary Canadian design
    Snagging the commission to furnish the commissioner-general’s suite in Moshe Safdie’s Habitat complex at Montreal’s Expo 67 was quite a coup for 26-year-old furniture jobber Klaus Nienkamper. He had sailed to Canada from his native Germany in 1960 with only $36 in his pocket, and eked out a living soon after as “right rear vacuum man” at Farb’s Car Wash on Toronto’s King Street West. As Mr. Nienkamper recalled in his eponymous furniture company’s Festschrift, Nienkamper: 50 Years of Excellence f
     

Furniture maker Klaus Nienkamper was a champion of contemporary Canadian design

20 août 2025 à 18:00
Klaus Nienkamper, a pivotal figure in the field of design, died last October, in Gaspé, Que., aged 84.

Snagging the commission to furnish the commissioner-general’s suite in Moshe Safdie’s Habitat complex at Montreal’s Expo 67 was quite a coup for 26-year-old furniture jobber Klaus Nienkamper. He had sailed to Canada from his native Germany in 1960 with only $36 in his pocket, and eked out a living soon after as “right rear vacuum man” at Farb’s Car Wash on Toronto’s King Street West.

As Mr. Nienkamper recalled in his eponymous furniture company’s Festschrift, Nienkamper: 50 Years of Excellence from Design to Delivery, published in 2018, “I did not have a factory. My only asset was a station wagon, and I had everything produced in small shops in and around Toronto.”

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  • Ford blasts Stelco owner for tariff support
    Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the head of the company that owns Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco “doesn’t give two hoots” about the workers, pointing to Lourenco Goncalves’s praise for U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel. During a press conference in Hamilton, Ont., Ford said Stelco should find a new owner.
     

Ford blasts Stelco owner for tariff support

20 août 2025 à 17:19
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the head of the company that owns Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco “doesn’t give two hoots” about the workers, pointing to Lourenco Goncalves’s praise for U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel. During a press conference in Hamilton, Ont., Ford said Stelco should find a new owner.

At this summer camp, being different is what helps kids fit in

20 août 2025 à 16:53

Verona Scorsone-Jung and her new best friend are jumping off the dock at their summer camp, swimming to the ladder and doing it all over again in a continuous loop of carefree summer fun.

Then there’s a pause, because 10-year-old Verona wants to explain a few things about having Tourette syndrome.

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Left to right, Evelyn Simmons, 14, and Violet Mcallister, 10, swim with fellow campers at Camp Maple Leaf on August 12, 2025. (Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail)

Canada’s severe drought is a sign of future climate conditions and calls for action, experts say

20 août 2025 à 16:03
A water storage area near farmland at Westcoast Vegetables in Delta, B.C., March, 2024. Canada is home to 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater but less than half of it is naturally renewed through the hydrological cycle.

Canada must prepare for more seasons marked by severe drought, experts say as this summer’s bone-dry conditions tormented farmers, strained municipal water supply and fuelled one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.

Seventy-one per cent of the country was either abnormally dry or under drought conditions as of the end of July, according to the federal government’s drought monitor released last week.

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  • Have cellphone bans been effective in schools? Share your thoughts
    Last fall, governments across Canada enacted policies that restricted phone use in the classroom – with rules varying for elementary schools and high schools. The increased use of cellphones and social media by students has been a source of concern for policy makers, educators and parents. The devices and platforms have been blamed for incidents of cyberbullying, disrupted sleep patterns and the inability of young people to focus.Cellphone bans in schools seem to be working, but some wonder how
     

Have cellphone bans been effective in schools? Share your thoughts

20 août 2025 à 14:10

Last fall, governments across Canada enacted policies that restricted phone use in the classroom – with rules varying for elementary schools and high schools. The increased use of cellphones and social media by students has been a source of concern for policy makers, educators and parents. The devices and platforms have been blamed for incidents of cyberbullying, disrupted sleep patterns and the inability of young people to focus.

Cellphone bans in schools seem to be working, but some wonder how long that will last

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