Saskatchewan is set to get help from Ottawa as dozens of wildfires burn in the province.
Federal Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski says she has approved a request for federal assistance and that Armed Forces personnel and helicopters are being deployed.
Police say they are investigating the “suspicious” death of a patient who had been living in a care home in Abbotsford, B.C.
The Abbotsford Police Department says the local hospital called police about two patients who had been transferred from Menno Home while experiencing “medical emergencies that raised concerns due to their suspicious nature.”
A statement from police says they were called on July 6 and one of the patients died on July 10.
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1/3 Israeli military operations against WHO staff and facilities, World Food Programme aid convoys, & the ongoing killing of Palestinians seeking urgently needed food and water are unacceptable. Civilians, incl. aid workers, must be protected.
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The Canadian government said on Wednesday that Israeli military operations against civilians and aid workers in Gaza were unacceptable, and called for the immediate resumption of U.N.-led aid distribution in the war-torn enclave.
“Israeli military operations against WHO staff and facilities, World Food Programme aid convoys, & the ongoing killing of Palestinians seeking urgently needed food and water are unacceptable,” the Canadian foreign ministry said on X.
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It was Jan. 11, 2024, and police in London, Ont., were preparing to lay sexual-assault charges against five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team.
The men – all of whom were now playing professional hockey, four of them in the NHL – were accused of attacking a woman in a hotel room in June, 2018, after a Hockey Canada gala.
On Thursday, the five former Canadian world junior hockey players charged with sexual assault after a 2018 celebratory gala in London, Ont., will learn their fates at the hands of the criminal justice system.
But that won’t be the final word: Both the National Hockey League and Hockey Canada still have matters to resolve with the men. Each organization conducted its own parallel investigation into the allegations, but when police laid charges in February, 2024, the league and national sport organization held off making any final determination until the end of the trial.
The girlfriend of a man shot and killed by Canada’s largest Indigenous police service in Northern Ontario says her partner couldn’t say no to assisting others.
Eric Nothing “was a good man, always helped when anyone needed it,” Roleine Meekis told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday.
Three workers are trapped more than 500 metres underground in a northern B.C. mine after multiple collapses blocked an access route.
The first ground collapse at Red Chris gold and copper mine – located near Dease Lake, close to the Alaska-British Columbia border – happened on Tuesday morning and forced the miners to escape to a designated refuge station.
A Calgary mother and father who pleaded guilty to manslaughter after leaving their toddler sitting in a diaper of scalding hot water have each been sentenced to six years in prison.
“Their actions indicate a wanton disregard for the safety of Gabriel,” Justice Glen Poelman of Court of King’s Bench said Wednesday at the sentencing of Michael Sinclair and Sonya Pasqua.
Park operators across eastern Canada have revoked and withheld permits for American musician Sean Feucht’s tour across the region this week, after a surge of local concerns about the Make America Great Again affiliate’s activism against the LGBTQ community, abortion rights and “woke ideology.”
Parks Canada on late Tuesday revoked Feucht’s permit for a kickoff concert scheduled for Wednesday night at the York Redoubt National Historic Site near Halifax, after criticism from Nova Scotia residents over his stances.
Premiers say they plan to take more control over immigration as Ontario Premier Doug Ford criticized the federal Immigration Minister and said he would be issuing his own work permits in the province.
At the conclusion of the three-day premiers’ meeting on Wednesday, provincial and territorial leaders called for an increase to economic immigration levels to meet their labour needs and said they would use powers under the Constitution to seize more control over immigration, including to issue work permits.
Five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team are awaiting the verdict in their high-profile sexual-assault trial. All of the men have pleaded not guilty. After a mistrial and two dismissed juries, Justice Maria Carroccia will deliver her verdict in London, Ont., on July 24.
Globe and Mail reporter Robyn Doolittle has been covering the case since London Police reopened the investigation in 2022. On July 28 at 1 p.m. ET, Doolittle will be answering reader questions about the case, the trial and the verdict.
Three workers trapped underground in a refuge area at the Red Chris mine in northwestern British Columbia have enough air, water and food for an “extended stay,” the mine’s majority owner said Wednesday.
The statement from Newmont Corp. said it was working to assemble specialist teams from nearby mine sites to respond to the accident that occurred Tuesday.
The Military Police Complaints Commission is investigating what happened during a botched active-shooter drill on a Canadian Forces base last fall that reportedly left an employee injured and traumatized.
The drill happened on Nov. 12 at CFB Longue-Pointe in Montreal.
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Parks Canada has cancelled the permit for a concert by a Christian musician at a historic site in Halifax.
The agency says it received complaints about the event featuring Sean Feucht — who has described himself as a missionary, author and activist.
British Columbia Premier David Eby says it’s not clear that Canada will end up striking a deal with the U.S. as the two countries negotiate a new trade and security pact under President Donald Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline.
Mr. Eby, who attended the summer gathering of Canada’s premiers in the Ontario community of Muskoka this week, said Prime Minister Mark Carney briefed the premiers on the status of negotiations with the U.S. on Tuesday.
Now that the British government has vowed to lower its voting age to 16 by the next general election, one Canadian senator says it’s past time for Canada to do the same.
The U.K. announced last week that it would lower its voting age from 18 to 16 in a bid to strengthen British democracy and restore trust in politics.
A judge has imposed a publication ban on a hearing to determine if the man accused of killing 11 people at the Vancouver Lapu-Lapu Day festival is fit to stand trial.
Adam Kai-Ji Lo faces 11 counts of second-degree murder and is accused of driving an SUV through a crowded street.
Residents of an upstate New York town gathered Tuesday night to shed tears and light candles for a nine-year-old Montreal girl whose body was found in their community over the weekend.
Scores of people in Ticonderoga gathered at a local park for an emotional tribute to nine-year-old Melina Frattolin.
University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated – and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track.
Academia and industry have focused on watermarking as the best way to fight deepfakes and “basically abandoned all other approaches,” said Andre Kassis, a PhD candidate in computer science who led the research.
Good morning. The TikTok generation is trading sunblock for sunburns, using apps to optimize their summer glow — more on that below, along with the one-year anniversary of Jasper’s wildfire and Ozzy Osbourne’s musical legacy. But first:
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Kelly Johnston’s skin cancer journey began more than a decade ago, after a biopsy revealed that a red, scaly scab above her left eyebrow was basal cell carcinoma.
Since then, she’s had other cancerous spots appear elsewhere on her body, including on her back. In 2022, Ms. Johnston received more serious news: She had melanoma, considered the most fatal form of skin cancer, on her left inner thigh.
The man accused of plowing a vehicle through a crowd at a Vancouver street festival faces more charges of second-degree murder.
Police say the number of charges against Adam Kai-Ji Lo, 30, has been increased from eight to 11, matching the number of people who died in the attack at the Lapu-Lapu festival on April 26.
About 200 Jasper, Alta., residents, some quietly wiping away tears, gathered on Tuesday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a wildfire that destroyed one-third of the picturesque mountain community.
Speakers at the ceremony, which included officials from all levels of government, Parks Canada and an Indigenous elder, focused on the resilience of Jasper residents. They also paid respect to Morgan Kitchen, a 24-year-old wildland firefighter who died while battling the blaze.
Coming face to face with a grizzly bear was the last thing a Calgary couple had in mind as they hiked along a popular mountain trail in southern Alberta.
Lori Arnason and Howard Mah had planned a short hike Saturday through Troll Falls in Kananaskis to celebrate their wedding anniversary when they got the scare of a lifetime.
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Two Canadian soldiers posted to a base in eastern Alberta are expected to recover after a stabbing.
RCMP say officers were called Friday to a disturbance at a home in Wainwright, west of the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary.
They say a 23-year-old man has been charged with two counts of assault with a weapon, as well as possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
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Canadian National Railway Co. CNR-T reported its net income inched up to $1.17-billion during its second quarter compared with last year, as it said the trade uncertainty is making it difficult for it to provide investors with an outlook.
The Montreal-based company says revenue fell about 1 per cent, to $4.27-billion compared with $4.33-billion a year earlier.
A Quebec woman who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and marry one of its fighters, has pleaded guilty to one count of participating in the activities of a terrorist group.
A Quebec court judge agreed to a joint submission from the federal Crown and lawyers for Oumaima Chouay – she will serve one day in custody in addition to the 110 days she spent in pretrial detention, and be on probation for three years. As part of her guilty plea, three other terror-related charges were stayed.
Federal prosecutors say Chouay is the first person convicted in Canada for providing support to a terror group by marrying a fighter.
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A Nova Scotia judge has convicted a 17-year-old boy of manslaughter for his role in the stabbing death of a Halifax high school student during a brawl last year in a parking garage.
The offender, whose identity is protected from publication, was one of four teens charged with second-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Ahmad Maher Al Marrach on April 22, 2024.
An Alberta landowner has asked the province’s ethics commissioner to investigate Premier Danielle Smith’s top energy adviser for possible conflict-of-interest rule breaches.
At the heart of the complaint is David Yager, a long-time oil and gas executive and policy analyst who was a driving force behind the Wildrose Party, once led by Ms. Smith. Mr. Yager was appointed chair of the Premier’s Advisory Council on Alberta’s Energy Future and, since 2023, has received four sole-source government contracts through his company, Yager Management Ltd. One of those, for $156,000, was to help develop Alberta’s mature-asset strategy on how to clean up the nearly 80,000 inactive oil and gas wells littering the province, according to the document filed with the commissioner.
New York State Police say the nine-year-old Montreal girl whose body was found over the weekend died from asphyxia due to drowning.
Police released autopsy results for Melina Frattolin from Dr. Michael Sikirica at Glens Falls Hospital in Glens Falls, N.Y.
Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking him to reject any new proposal for a crude oil pipeline to the northwest coast.
The move comes as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a new private-sector pipeline that would send crude oil to the northern B.C. coast for export to Asia.
Five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team are awaiting the verdict in their high-profile sexual assault trial. All of the men have pleaded not guilty.
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Police say six adults and six youths face a total of 136 charges after an investigation into violent home invasions and jewelry store robberies in the Greater Toronto Area.
Peel Regional Police say the investigation dubbed Project Night Train focused on 17 violent incidents that took place between May and December 2024.
A verdict this week in the prosecution of five hockey players on sexual-assault charges could break new ground on the question of what constitutes voluntary consent in cases of an apparent power imbalance – in this instance, multiple men in a hotel room with an intoxicated woman most of them had never met.
The trial, which heard closing submissions last month, has given a rare national profile to how the criminal-justice system addresses sexual assault. The trial’s many unusual elements, including seven days of cross-examination of the complainant, and allegations against five young men from Canada’s 2018 gold medal-winning world junior team, have combined to give this case a broad importance in social and legal terms.
The federal government is looking for feedback on changes to Canada’s deposit insurance framework that could see the coverage limit raised to $150,000.
Right now, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp. will guarantee Canadians’ deposits up to $100,000 in the event of a bank failure as long as they’re held with a member institution.
Months after fearing she would lose her baby girl to measles, Morgan Birch says she wants Canadians to educate themselves more about the importance of vaccines.
Birch’s daughter, Kimie Fukuta-Birch, was too young to be eligible for the vaccine, which is not routinely given to children under a year old. But she feels her baby would not have been infected if more people around her had received the vaccine.
The mayor of a rural Newfoundland town is among the volunteer firefighters missing work to battle a raging wildfire in a part of Canada where unpaid town councils and first responders are shouldering increasing numbers of emergencies.
Jason Chaulk was supposed to fly out on Monday for Saskatchewan, where he is a rotational worker at a mine. But the volunteer mayor and deputy fire chief in Musgrave Harbour, N.L., along the northeast coast of Newfoundland, said he stayed home to fight the out-of-control wildfire threatening his community.
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Sales of spirits from the United States have plunged in Canada as provinces and consumers push back against U.S. trade hostility, but industry groups found overall sales are down, too.
Spirits sales from the U.S. were down 66.3 per cent in the March 5 to April 30 stretch compared with a year earlier, said Spirits Canada and and the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States in a joint release Tuesday.
When Jorge Castillo was finally allowed to return to Jasper, he drove to his home in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains hoping to see at least some remnants of the house he and his family had lived in for the past four years.
He was expecting to find part of it still standing after last year’s wildfire. But “there was nothing,” said Mr. Castillo, a chef who works at a restaurant south of town.
Good morning. A growing international coalition is demanding peace in Gaza while withholding pressure on Israel – more on that below, along with the companies cashing in on Canada’s military boost and some cautious optimism about U.S. tariffs. But first:
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