The Quebec government is renewing its promise to modify a forestry bill that has provoked blockades and growing tension in the province.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenière said Tuesday evening that the forestry reform bill must be amended to take into account the rights of First Nations.
Canada Post and the union representing postal workers are set to return to the bargaining table today.
Plans to rekindle talks late last week were delayed due to a lack of federal government mediators.
Good morning. Resolution inches forward after days of gridlock in airports and years of stalemate in war zones – more on that below, along with Quebec’s use of AI to get traffic moving and the chances for a Bank of Canada rate cut. But first:
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The evening of Feb. 7, 2024, Hazel van der Werken knew something was very wrong with her eldest son.
Finlay, an active 16-year-old who loved playing hockey, was experiencing intense pain on his right side.
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OA media consortium that includes The Globe and Mail argued in court against a publication ban on the details of a hearing into whether the man accused of using his SUV to kill 11 people at Vancouver’s Lapu-Lapu Day festival is mentally fit to stand trial.
The defence and the Crown prosecutors asked a British Columbia Provincial Court judge Tuesday to keep the ban in place until the end of a potential criminal trial for Kai-Ji Adam Lo. Mr. Lo watched the proceedings from a video-conferencing room at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital.
Alberta is making changes to its highly scrutinized COVID vaccine program to make shots free of charge for health care workers, but the majority of Albertans will still have to pay out of pocket.
Maddison McKee, press secretary to Minister of Primary and Preventative Health Services Adriana LaGrange, confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that vaccine coverage will be extended to all health care workers this fall. Ms. McKee did not say why the government decided to revise its policy.
Canadian students from across the country are prepping to go back to school in just a few weeks, and many of them will be starting new chapters in schools outside Canada – especially in the United States.
According to the United States’ Institute of International Education, nearly 29,000 Canadians studied in the U.S. in 2023.
Five members of the Canadian Armed Forces have been suspended and military police are investigating after a video surfaced showing a group of people giving Nazi salutes.
The commander of the army, Lt.-Gen. Michael Wright, called the video’s contents disturbing and said that hate and extremism “have no place in the Canadian Army.”
The Green Party of Canada will once again be looking for someone to replace Elizabeth May, after the party’s longtime leader said Tuesday she will not lead the Greens into the next election.
In an e-mail to members, May said she intends to stay on as an MP and as party leader until a new leader is elected.
As a boy, Rick Scott was taken by his father to the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1954 to see the original production of Peter Pan, with Mary Martin in the lead role.
Sitting first row in the balcony, the wide-eyed child witnessed Ms. Martin floating toward him on a harness, staring at him as she sang, “Look at me way up high, suddenly here am I, I’m flying, I’m flying.”
Ontario is planning to make changes to a housing fund for municipalities that many have said unfairly measures their progress on building, the minister signalled in a speech Tuesday.
Rob Flack told the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Ottawa that he is going to consult with mayors and the association to “extend and improve” the Building Faster Fund.
The rent-versus-buy debate has long divided financial experts and aspiring homeowners, with no clear winner in sight.
The traditional argument holds: While buying a home can build long-term equity and stability, renting can provide flexibility and fewer upfront costs. But as home ownership becomes a far-fetched dream for many young Canadians, can renting for life be a viable option?
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is asking the Quebec government to appoint a “top gun” for homelessness ahead of an expected provincial cabinet shuffle.
She made the request at a news conference on Tuesday during which she also proposed to spend nearly $22.5-million to tackle homelessness.
The mayor of Port Alberni on Vancouver Island says about 50 residents evacuated from their homes due to a nearby wildfire will soon have an update on when they will be able to return.
Sharie Minions told a news conference Tuesday that officials are working with the BC Wildfire Service to update two evacuation orders and three alerts that are in place due to the out-of-control Mount Underwood fire.
Ontario’s long-standing beer retailer is continuing to close locations, adding to a lengthy list of shutdowns announced as Ontario expands where alcohol can be sold in the province.
On Monday, The Beer Store announced it is closing 12 more locations across the province.
Quebec City has started synchronizing traffic lights with the use of Google’s artificial intelligence, technology the city says will improve traffic flow, reduce congestion, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Google Canada GOOGL-Q, Quebec City is the first municipality in the country to partner with the web giant’s Green Light project, which the company offers free of charge to cities.
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. L-T says it has completed its plan for a four-for-one stock split of its common shares.
The grocery and drugstore retailer says its common shares began trading on a post-split basis as of market open on Tuesday.
Canadians who want to repair their own Apple AAPL-Q devices can now get parts, tools and manuals from the tech giant, which brought its self-service repair program to the country on Tuesday.
The program gives customers free access to manuals and diagnostic software that help troubleshoot issues with iPads, iPhones and Macs. Customers are then able to purchase any parts and rent or buy the tools necessary to make repairs.
Air Canada AC-T resumed flying Tuesday afternoon after reaching an early morning tentative labour agreement with the union that represents its 10,000 flight attendants, who had been on strike since Aug. 16.
The four-year deal, which must be approved by a majority of union members in coming votes, provides hourly raises of about 16 to 20 per cent over the life of the contract, depending on seniority and job type, according to people familiar with the matter.
Health Canada has approved Ozempic to reduce the risk of further kidney decline among patients with Type 2 diabetes.
Between 30 and 50 per cent of people with Type 2 diabetes develop some form of chronic kidney disease.
Good morning. Air Canada flight attendants have reached a tentative agreement with the airline to end their strike – more on that below, along with the continued risk of wildfires and Cambridge Dictionary’s nod to Gen Z. But first:
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Canada’s annual inflation rate eased to 1.7 per cent in July from 1.9 per cent in the prior month as lower year-on-year gasoline prices kept the consumer price index low, but core measures of inflation stayed sticky, data showed on Tuesday.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast the annual inflation rate at 1.8 per cent and the monthly inflation rate at 0.3 per cent. The CPI increased by 0.3 per cent in July from 0.1 per cent in June on a monthly basis, Statistics Canada said.
Near the Easter Seals Camp in Squamish, B.C., dozens of children from as far away as Toronto and Montreal passed the time on Monday kicking a soccer ball around a field and singing Ukrainian songs around a fire. These are some of the summer activities the camp’s staff were using to distract the young campers – a group that includes Ukrainian refugees – from the fact that they couldn’t return home.
About 150 scouts are stuck at the camp owing to the strike by flight attendants at Air Canada, which has grounded the airline’s flights and disrupted travel for an estimated 130,000 passengers a day.
Jahvai Roy, the eight-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a stray bullet while he was in his bed with his mother early Saturday morning in Toronto, was a budding activist against violence, a family spokesperson said in an interview.
The child, whose death has sparked outrage and calls for action on gun crime, was the youngest member of an organization devoted to stamping out violence in Canada’s largest city, Marcell Wilson said Monday.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday the federal government is leaving “no stone unturned” to defend Canada’s North as changes in the global order in recent years are having direct implications for Canada’s Arctic sovereignty.
But one expert in international relations says Canada is being left out of crucial talks, with Prime Minister Mark Carney not among the leaders who gathered Monday at the White House for talks on the future of Ukraine.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says the weather is not co-operating in his province’s fight against a major wildfire burning out of control in the Annapolis Valley.
“Unfortunately, the weather this weekend was not in our favour. The dry conditions continued. The heat continued. The wind was blowing the wrong way. All terrible news when you’re facing a fire,” Houston told reporters on Monday.
The battle between Air Canada and its flight attendants – which has boiled over into an illegal strike, stranding travellers and grounding planes – includes a fight over unpaid work that could set a precedent for other major carriers in Canada and around the world, experts say.
A key demand of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents 10,400 flight attendants with Air Canada and its subsidiary Air Canada Rouge, is compensation for what is called “ground time.”
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Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford put the focus on making Canada globally competitive rather than securing a trade deal with the United States as they met in Ottawa on Monday.
Carney and Ford were meeting on Parliament Hill as trade talks with the United States show little signs of progressing.
I once had the pleasure of interviewing Apollo 13 commander James Lovell when I was a reporter at The Globe and Mail.
It was in 2009 and I was writing a story to mark the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first moon landing.
Canada is leading the way when it comes to volunteering to work at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Organizers of the Canadian end of the tournament say Toronto and Vancouver rank one-two among the 16 host cities in the number of applications.
An expert who has disposed of bombs in some of the world’s most dangerous places says European governments pinning their security hopes on land mines are turning to an ineffective tool that will only spread misery and hunger.
“It’s an outdated technology that can quite quickly be rendered useless,” said Gary Toombs, a senior explosive disposal technician with the charity Humanity and Inclusion.
Federal officials are warning the public that they expect an elevated risk of wildfires across much of the country from now until the end of September.
For August, increased fire danger is expected over much of Western Canada and the Northwest Territories, according to a technical briefing for media. Southern British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan are expected to have the highest risk given dry conditions and warmer-than-normal temperatures.
Two former Indigenous leaders on both sides of the debate over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say the federal government can’t ignore First Nations on future infrastructure projects it seeks to approve.
Their comments come as Prime Minister Mark Carney aims to fast-track major projects, such as pipelines and mines, through his government’s newly adopted “Building Canada Act.”
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A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade. The threatened species usually makes its habitat in warmer southern Gulf waters, so scientists want to monitor its condition to see if a rescue is necessary.
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At least 98 structures have been lost to devastating wildfires in Newfoundland, the Premier said Monday, but it will take time before some of the thousands forced to flee their homes have an update on the state of their properties.
Premier John Hogan flew over the Conception Bay area recently to survey the damage from the Kingston wildfire, but he said it’s hard to see what’s happening on the ground from a helicopter. Between the thick smoke and the scale of destruction, he said it’s difficult to pinpoint individual neighbourhoods from the sky
Katie Hulan’s family doctor thought she might have asthma.
Her cough, which had started about a month and a half earlier, was getting progressively worse. So he gave her some puffers to try, but they didn’t work.
Sue Carstairs holds a painted turtle in her gloved hands and points out its injuries: a fractured shell and wounded underside from being hit by a car. It looks displeased at the inspection.
Two wires are holding together the broken shell, with bandage tape keeping it in place.
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Good morning. Air Canada says it will resume flights later today, despite the union representing flight attendants saying they have no intention of ending the strike. More on that below, plus concepts of a plan to make peace between Russia and Ukraine, and a generational shift in parenting. Let’s get to it.
Calgarian Emi Bossio, who has been battling lung cancer for six years, spent nine days in intensive care last summer after falling ill with COVID-19. She suffered a pulmonary embolism and had pneumonia in both lungs.
“I came really close to dying,” she said.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly will meet this week in Sweden with the company behind a fighter jet that could replace some of the planes Canada has already committed to purchasing from the United States.
A government source with knowledge of the minister’s plans confirmed that she will meet with Saab along with other businesses in Sweden. The Globe and Mail is not naming the source, who is not authorized to publicly discuss details of the trip.
Newfoundland officials lifted evacuation alerts for the communities close to the capital of St. John’s on the weekend as cool weather helped crews contain one of several out-of-control wildfires in the province.
The wildfire at Paddy’s Pond, about 15 kilometres southwest of the city’s downtown core, had about 20,000 people on evacuation alert. The provincial government said in a news release on Sunday that crews were holding the fire “steady” and containing any hotspots.
Ontario real estate agents reported just eight large cash transactions over the past year to the federal anti-money-laundering watchdog, according to new figures.
The multibillion-dollar real estate market is at high risk for money laundering, experts say.
However, the low number of reports – which is down substantially from previous years – could be due, at least in part, to brokerages implementing no-cash policies.
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