When immigration lawyer Hana Marku opened her email weeks ago to a photo of an emaciated infant in the Gaza Strip, she said she felt helpless.

The child is among about 50 Palestinians the Toronto-based lawyer is representing. She said each one was blocked without explanation from submitting applications under the temporary visa program the Canadian government created to help them flee the Israel-Hamas war.

The federal union representing workers at the Canada Revenue Agency has started the second phase of its online campaign denouncing staffing cuts.

The “Canada on Hold” campaign was launched last month with a focus on CRA call centres but has now been expanded to draw attention to staffing cuts across the agency.

Marc Brière, national president of the Union of Taxation Employees, says the CRA has cut almost 10,000 jobs since May 2024 and the campaign looks to highlight the impact of cuts on the delivery of services to taxpayers and businesses.

Son temps de 22,82 s lui permet d'être repêchée pour le tour suivant, qui se tiendra jeudi.

Good morning. Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City has begun, with missiles flattening neighbourhoods and families fleeing on foot – more on that below, along with the coming federal budget and Robert Redford’s cinematic legacy. But first:

Today’s headlines

• Chrystia Freeland will leave her cabinet post to serve as Canada’s special representative for Ukraine
• The suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk is charged and prosecutors will seek the death penalty
• Washington was hoping for a ‘bigger’ deal with Canada than USMCA, the U.S. ambassador says
• Britain prepares for Trump’s arrival with pomp and protests

The small B.C. town of Smithers is the latest Canadian community to table extraordinary measures to deal with the chaos and disorder triggered by the fentanyl crisis.

Last week, the northern mountain town of 5,400 announced that it will be hiring a team of private security guards to patrol a homeless encampment and the wider downtown from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. weekdays and 24 hours on weekends and holidays.

Québec propose de lier 15 % de la rémunération des médecins à leur performance plutôt que 25 % comme prévu.

La littérature scientifique ne s'entend pas sur un lien entre violence des jeux vidéo et agressivité.

Il s'agit d'une condition pour que les centres de services scolaires obtiennent une part de l'argent promis.

Les Torontois décrochent un sixième gain de suite.

Ontario’s Minister of Education has ordered child-care operators to immediately block parking spaces that could endanger children, a directive prompted by a Richmond Hill crash that killed a toddler and described by operators as a rushed response that has created new risks.

One-and-a-half-year-old Liam Riazati died when a vehicle crashed through the front window of the First Roots Early Education Academy last Wednesday. Six other children were injured – two critically – along with three adults.

Israël a rejeté un rapport « biaisé et mensonger ».

David Sydney-Cariglia saw the struggling plane before he heard it.

He’d been focusing on his son playing soccer at St. Patrick Catholic Secondary School in Toronto’s east end. It was a cloudless Monday night in September. As dusk settled in and the floodlights hummed, a strange shape whispered over the field.

Ses partisans poussent pour une amnistie de l'ancien président.

Une « fièvre non traitée pendant la grossesse comporte des risques bien documentés pour la mère et le bébé ».

A Canadian resident has been arrested after his alleged involvement in the high-profile smuggling of a young Indian family of four who froze to death along the U.S. border in Manitoba in early 2022.

Fenil Patel, 37, who also goes by the name Fenilkumar Kantilal Patel, was apprehended on Sept. 5, based on an extradition request from the U.S., said Kwame Bonsu, a spokesperson for the Department of Justice Canada. The official declined to provide further details, including about any pending charges, describing the matter on Tuesday as part of “confidential state-to-state communications.”

Des milliers de manifestants ont prévu protester mercredi dans la capitale, que le président Trump évitera.

A powerhouse politician who broke glass ceilings in Canada, Ione Christensen is being remember both for the trails she blazed and the international acclaim she earned for the century-old sourdough starter she protected in the back of her refrigerator.

A former senator and the first woman to be mayor of Whitehorse, Christensen died Monday at the age of 91.

Les champions nationaux sont les têtes d'affiche d'une sélection de 12 patineurs.

Another man has been arrested in connection with a human smuggling operation that saw a migrant family freeze to death on the Canada-U.S. border near Emerson, Man.

Fenil Patel was arrested Sept. 5 on an extradition request from the United States, the Justice Department in Ottawa said Tuesday. The 37-year-old faces a hearing this week in Ontario Superior Court.

British Columbia’s independent Auditor-General says the province’s record-setting deficit forecast for this year is understated, because Finance Ministry officials were slow to account for a multibillion-dollar settlement that the provinces reached in March with big tobacco companies over health damages.

This week, B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey tabled a fiscal update that shows the provincial deficit in the current fiscal year is forecast to hit $11.6-billion.

Un processus d’évacuation est en cours concernant le campement dans le parc Dufferin Grove.

Il analyse des matchs de la NFL tout en étant propriétaire minoritaire de l'équipe de Las Vegas.

Des centaines de membres des Premières Nations un peu partout au Québec se sont mobilisés lundi.

The regional director of a union representing workers at the Amazon AMZN-Q facility in Delta, B.C., says leaders are scheduled to meet its members for the first time on the company’s property.

Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarrigle says six, hour-long meetings will be held over three days this week to allow the union to inform workers about next steps in bargaining for their first collective agreement.

La Fédération des transporteurs par autobus prévoit un retour complet à la normale au plus tard vendredi.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he believes Prime Minister Mark Carney will support his plan to build a tunnel under Highway 401 through Toronto and will include it among the major projects the federal government intends to fast-track.

Mr. Ford has spoken out about his plan to build a new driver and transit tunnel expressway under Highway 401 and included it on the list provided to Ottawa of five projects the province believes are in the national interest to build.

Le syndicat a demandé à contourner la médiation à cause du peu de chances qu'une offre acceptable soit faite.

The United States is officially starting the process of reviewing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as President Donald Trump continues to shake up continental trade with his tariff agenda.

The U.S. Trade Representative is beginning 45 days of public consultations ahead of the mandated review of the trade agreement, better known as USMCA, next year.

Le film explore la vie du psychiatre, homme de lettres et militant anticolonialiste, Frantz Fanon.

British Columbia’s public service workers are escalating job action aimed at slowing work in the mining sector just as the province moves to fast-track several projects.

The BC General Employees’ Union and Professionals Employees Association say staff in mineral and mines offices in Vancouver and Cranbrook will join picket lines.

Les médecins omnipraticiens menacent aussi le gouvernement de cesser toute activité d’enseignement.

Le suspect est visé par sept chefs d'accusation, dont meurtre avec circonstances aggravantes.

Le receveur est lié à l’équipe jusqu’à la fin de la saison 2027.

Le ministre des Finances, François-Philippe Champagne, en a fait l'annonce à la Chambre des communes.

Plus d'une douzaine d'artistes se réuniront pour ce spectacle le 12 novembre à Toronto.

Les députés auraient dû revenir à l'Assemblée nationale mardi, rappelle le deuxième groupe d'opposition.

La Québécoise remporte le bronze chez les moins de 59 kg aux mondiaux de lutte en Croatie.

Les accusations de meurtre sont maintenues contre Luigi Mangione.

Kash Patel a défendu sa gestion du dossier Epstein et ses communications sur l'assassinat de Charlie Kirk.

A 34-year-old woman found not criminally responsible after abandoning her toddler in a rural field will remain detained at a Montreal psychiatric hospital.

Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud delivered the ruling at the Valleyfield, Que., courthouse on Tuesday, saying that despite the progress she’s made in her recovery she still poses a risk to the public.

“I understand that you are eager to be released, but I think we need to take it step by step, gradually,” he told the woman, whose name is under publication ban to protect the identity of her daughter.

Critics are questioning what problem the Alberta government’s move to add mandatory citizenship markers to provincial identification aims to solve, and say it opens the door to potential privacy breaches and discrimination.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Monday the move is all about streamlining services and preventing election fraud.

NDP MP and labour critic Alexandre Boulerice said Tuesday his party plans to table a private member’s bill this fall to scrap a section of the Canada Labour Code that lets the government shut down strikes.

Boulerice told a press conference that the Liberals and Conservatives have abused Section 107, which allows a minister to order binding arbitration and end work stoppages.

Le principal suspect dans l'assassinat de Charlie Kirk sera accusé de sept chefs, dont meurtre prémédité.

L'agent du gardien de but l'a confirmé au directeur général de l'équipe, Daniel Brière.

Sergio Yanes Preciado est toujours détenu à l'Hôpital général de Montréal.

Le gardien a signé son contrat de recrue au printemps dernier et s’est joint au Rocket en fin de saison.

Il y donnera l'ultime représentation de son spectacle Modeste et il y enregistrera son balado Sous écoute.

Josée Blanchette, Marie-Sissi Labrèche et Jocelyne Richer figurent parmi les autrices en nomination.

Le quotidien new-yorkais dénonce « une tentative de museler et de décourager le journalisme indépendant ».