American pop star Chappell Roan is creating excitement in an often-overlooked Canadian province, with her latest single supercharging fans in Saskatchewan’s LGBTQ community.
In Roan’s new song about post-breakup frustration, set for release late Thursday, the singer-songwriter name-drops Saskatchewan.
An audit of Alberta medical clinics charging membership fees found no significant cases of patients paying out of pocket for covered medical treatment but paying members are likely getting more thorough care.
The province launched the audit in 2023 in response to concerns over a Calgary medical clinic switching to a membership model and planning to charge annual fees of about $5,000 for families and $2,000 for an adult.
Ads promised patients shorter wait-times and extended appointments but experts warned membership fees would create a two-tiered health system benefiting those who can pay.
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Canadian aid is being airdropped into Gaza a day after Ottawa joined allies in recognizing Palestinian statehood – a step which has prompted both praise and condemnation in the Middle East.
Israel has slightly loosened its tight restrictions on food and medicine reaching the Gaza Strip in response to an international outcry over starvation in the Palestinian territory.
Quebec’s Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit over infamous CIA-linked brainwashing experiments at a Montreal psychiatric hospital.
The Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University and the Canadian government are being sued for their alleged role in the so-called Montreal Experiments carried out by Dr. Ewen Cameron between 1948 and 1964.
The lawsuit alleges the federal government funded psychiatric treatments that were part of the CIA’s MK-ULTRA program of covert mind control at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute.
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Guillermo del Toro and Jodie Foster are among those set to receive special honours at the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
De Toro will be presented with the Ebert Director Award – recognizing filmmakers who have exemplified greatness – at the TIFF Tribute Awards on Sept. 7.
Justin Trudeau was spotted in the crowd at Katy Perry’s concert in Montreal, days after duo dined together in the city.
The appearance continues to fuel speculation about a possible relationship between the former prime minister and U.S. pop star, who had dinner at a Plateau restaurant on Monday.
A special air quality statement has been issued for parts of southern Ontario, triggered by wildfire smoke from the Prairies.
Environment Canada says smoke from forest fires can cause reduced air quality and visibility that can fluctuate throughout the day.
The affordable housing complex Mike Tiller is hoping for is unlike anything else in his community.
The sleek, modular buildings with sloping roofs and wide windows pose a sharp contrast to the brightly-coloured clapboard houses dotting the shores in New-Wes-Valley, a small fishing community along the northern end of Newfoundland’s Bonavista Bay.
Toronto has moved to ban motorized watercraft from one of its busiest beaches by next year due to concerns over unsafe operators and illegal rentals, but one rental company says the city should instead focus on regulations that weed out “bad actors” in the industry.
City council passed a motion last week requesting that PortsToronto ban boats and personal watercrafts such as Jet Skis within at least 150 metres of the shoreline at Woodbine Beach in the city’s east end by June 2026.
As a travelling physician in northern Ontario, Dannica Switzer is acutely aware of the health-care crisis in underserved communities.
“It’s sad to see how much worse things can get,” said Switzer, who works as a locum, filling roles on a temporary basis in rural or remote areas.
Good morning. Canada is facing (yet another) trade deadline with the United States tomorrow. And while many tariff deadlines have been delayed, this one could stick. More on that below, plus the latest news out of Gaza, and how B.C. prepared for a smaller-than-expected tsunami. But first:
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Canada has trees – on that everyone can agree.
But when it comes to seeing the forest, Ottawa is at odds with a slew of environmental groups over what that means.
For $35, aspiring young hockey players can purchase a T-shirt from a Canadian brand that has become popular in rinks across the country, with a slogan rooted in language that degrades women and girls as sex objects.
Using veiled locker-room slang, the shirts read: “Barduzz, Gettin Huzz.” Loosely translated, it means “Scoring goals, getting hoes.” A hoodie version is also available in children’s sizes.
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In the end, the tsunami that washed onto Tofino, B.C.’s shores was only about half the height of a school ruler, gently raising the tide and delighting the roughly 300 tourists watching just before midnight Tuesday on Mackenzie Beach.
About seven hours earlier, J. J. Belanger, general manager of the nearby Crystal Cove Beach Resort, went into high alert after news that an underwater earthquake had hit Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula with a preliminary magnitude of 8.8, one of the strongest ever recorded.
A national Muslim advocacy group called Wednesday a “historic day” after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would formally recognize Palestinian statehood.
But a national Jewish organization said the decision was “deeply concerning” and would embolden the terrorist group Hamas.
Bev Priestman, the former head coach of Canada’s women’s national soccer team – who was banned by FIFA for her role in a drone spying scandal at the Paris Olympics – has been hired as head coach of New Zealand’s only professional women’s team.
Priestman made her return to soccer this week after her one-year ban. The ban expired the day before New Zealand’s Wellington Phoenix announced Priestman would be the new coach of their women’s squad.
A judge has ruled that the Ontario government’s plan to remove bike lanes along three major streets in Toronto is unconstitutional and violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by putting people at “increased risk of harm and death.”
The Ontario government passed legislation last fall giving itself the power to remove existing bike lanes along Yonge Street, Bloor Street and University Avenue, while also preventing municipalities from creating new bike lanes that replace traffic lanes. At the time, Premier Doug Ford complained about bike lanes creating gridlock.
Tactical evacuations are underway for about 400 properties due to a fast moving wildfire burning between Peachland and West Kelowna, B.C.
Central Okanagan Emergency Operations says residents of properties east of Trepanier Bench Road, south of Highway 97C and north of Highway 97 should be prepared to be away from their homes for an “extended period of time.”
B.C. Premier David Eby has rebuffed calls by property developers for the federal and provincial governments to loosen restrictions on foreign investment in the housing sector, saying he doesn’t want to return to the old system that allowed rampant and uncontrolled foreign investment in Canadian housing.
The Premier was responding to an open letter from B.C. developers this week that was also sent to Prime Minister Mark Carney and federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson.
More people forced out by wildfires in Saskatchewan are returning home this week, but officials warn hot temperatures in the coming days could pose threats.
Steve Roberts with the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says about 700 residents from Beauval and another 200 from Montreal Lake Cree Nation have started going back to their communities.
He says crews are working to contain nearby blazes and douse flare-ups, but hot and windy conditions later this week could cause problems.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
The move would be a significant policy shift for Canada, which like many of its major allies had previously withheld such recognition. It follows similar announcements from France, which said it would recognize Palestinian statehood, and Britain, which said it would recognize Palestine if Israel does not agree to a ceasefire.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed hefty new tariffs on imported copper products, though the duties largely spare Canada’s mining and refining industry.
Mr. Trump set the tariff for a range of copper products at 50 per cent starting Aug. 1, citing national security concerns for his latest attempt to bolster his country’s manufacturing sector by raising trade barriers.
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A Katy Perry superfan is basking in newfound fame after a video of him meeting the pop star garnered nearly a million views online.
Perry, who is in Canada performing several shows on her Lifetimes Tour, invited concertgoer Braiden Palumbo on stage during a stop in Vancouver.
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Nearly 200 former Canadian ambassadors and career diplomats are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to recognize a Palestinian state.
In a letter dated July 29 and addressed to Mr. Carney, the career diplomats say that it’s time for Canada to join the 147 countries that have recognized statehood for Palestine.
To some, the massive cedar log at Kits Beach is a beloved icon, a playground, a perfect perch to gaze at the timbered slopes of the North Shore and the cobalt ocean beyond.
To city staff, who have slated it for removal, it is a nuisance and a safety risk – it needs to go.
The Ontario government says it has agreed with satellite internet provider Starlink – owned by billionaire Elon Musk – on the terms to end a $92-million contract with the company that Premier Doug Ford had vowed to rip up in retaliation for U.S. tariffs during his winter re-election campaign. But the province would not reveal how much taxpayers will have to pay to get out of the deal.
Ontario Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce, whose department was overseeing the contract, confirmed on Wednesday that talks to end it had finished and that the province was now aiming to find a Canadian company to replace Starlink. He declined to say how much the cancellation cost.
Thousands of young people are set to line up for job interviews at the Canadian National Exhibition today amid a high level of youth unemployment in Ontario.
The CNE says it has received more than 54,000 online job applications for more than 5,000 seasonal positions at the two-week fair, including cashiers, retail associates, game attendants, food service staff, midway operators and informational guides.
The father of a nine-year-old Montreal girl who was found drowned in a pond in Upstate New York has been indicted by a grand jury and will stand trial for second-degree murder.
Luciano Frattolin appeared Wednesday at a courthouse in Elizabethtown, N.Y., where he pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and the concealment of a human corpse.
Health officials in Nova Scotia say the measles outbreak in the province’s northern zone has risen by five cases to 35.
Officials area also issuing two public exposure warnings.
BC Wildfire Service data show a blaze south of Lytton that has triggered multiple evacuation alerts is three times its original estimated size and continues to burn out of control.
The service’s latest update on the Cantilever Bar wildfire says it is now measured at 4.6 square kilometres, up from the 1.5 square kilometres reported earlier this week.
A union representing Toronto workers says unbearable heat forced the closure of two indoor pools Tuesday, and they remain closed this morning.
CUPE Local 79 says indoor humidex ratings were recorded between 40 and 45 C this week at Main Square Community Recreation Centre and Birchmount Community Centre pools.
A Hamilton-area modular-home builder faces a court-ordered receivership process with creditors seeking repayment of more than $17-million, but still believes the future is bright for prefabricated homes.
“Were there barriers in the market? Absolutely; this is an up and coming industry, we’re going to see a lot of people coming into the market being unsuccessful. If 100 are coming maybe 95 won’t be successful for many reasons, good or bad,” said Ali Kerem Ozden, owner and president of BECC Construction Inc., who hopes his company can be restructured through the receivership process.
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Good morning. University admissions are more competitive than ever thanks to an avalanche of applications, a relatively small number of seats, and rising grade inflation. More on that below, plus Canada’s top court prepares for Quebec’s Bill 21 hearing, and Mexico’s trade struggles. But first:
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The British Columbia government has cancelled a tsunami advisory that was issued after a massive underwater earthquake off Russia that was one of the strongest ever recorded.
The advisory initially said tsunami waves of less than 30 centimetres were expected to hit Tofino, B.C., around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, after the quake that had a preliminary magnitude of 8.8.
The Slaight Family Foundation will donate $13-million to more than a dozen humanitarian organizations while they respond to crises that groups say have intensified because of billions in U.S. foreign aid cuts.
Gary Slaight, the foundation’s president and CEO, said it decided to give 13 organizations $1-million each because of what has unfolded since U.S. President Donald Trump slashed funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
A record number of groups have been given standing to present legal arguments at the Supreme Court of Canada as it hears a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, a case that could reshape how governments across the country use the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.
At issue is Quebec’s Bill 21, a 2019 law that bans public-sector workers, including teachers and police, from wearing religious symbols such as hijabs or crosses at work. The Quebec government used Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the notwithstanding clause, to shield the law from legal challenges.
Pierre Poilievre was greeted with cheers and applause by the hundreds of Albertans who showed up to watch a two-and-a-half-hour political debate on a sunny Tuesday evening in July.
The Camrose and District Chamber of Commerce hosted a candidates’ forum featuring 10 of the people who are vying to represent Battle River-Crowfoot in the Aug. 18 by-election.
Major players in B.C.’s housing industry are calling on federal and provincial governments to loosen restrictions on foreign investment in Canadian homes to avoid a crash they say will deepen the country’s housing crisis.
The B.C. industry players have written to Prime Minister Mark Carney and federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson outlining their concerns. Toronto developers, whose industry is struggling with some of the same challenges, have said they support the measures being urged.
The Vancouver Island municipality of Nanaimo wants the local health authority to justify the continued existence of the community’s legal overdose prevention site as opposition mounts to the facility around the corner from its City Hall.
Nanaimo City Council deferred voting Monday evening on a motion asking the Vancouver Island Health Authority, or VIHA, to shut down the site in favour of meeting with the agency in coming weeks. The site has been operating since 2022.
Small tsunami waves triggered when one of the world’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of southeastern Russia were expected to hit parts of British Columbia’s coast late Tuesday, the province’s emergency information agency said.
Social media posts from Emergency Info BC said waves measuring less than 30 centimetres were expected to reach Tofino around 11:30 p.m.
Bev Priestman, who lost her job as Canada coach in the wake of the Paris Olympic drone-spying scandal, has been named coach of Wellington Phoenix FC women’s team in New Zealand.
The two-year appointment coincides with the expiration of Priestman’s one-year FIFA ban arising from the drone incident.
A British Columbia judge has sentenced a man with the longest record of Fisheries Act violations in Canadian history to six years in prison for “ravaging the ocean and flouting the law.”
Scott Steer and his co-accused corporation faced eight charges including fishing in a closed area without a licence, selling more than $1-million worth of illegally harvested sea cucumbers and breaching an earlier order forbidding him from possessing fishing vessels.
Steer’s co-accused in the case was a numbered company owned by his wife, Melissa Steer, but the company was found to be a “sham.”
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Israeli customs data suggests lethal Canadian arms are still being exported regularly to Israel, despite Ottawa’s claim that it has halted such shipments.
“Canadian military products are deeply embedded in Israel’s military infrastructure, despite our government’s attempts to placate us,” said Rachel Small of the group World Beyond War.
Her group is part of a coalition of Canadian advocates for Palestinians which released a report Tuesday based on data published by the Israel Tax Authority.
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