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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Voters in a sprawling riding in central Alberta are returning to the polls on Monday for the second time in four months in a federal by-election that is expected to return Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to Parliament.
Mr. Poilievre lost the Ottawa-area seat he had held for decades in the April general election, a blow that compounded the Conservative Party’s failure to defeat the governing Liberals after months of leading them in the polls.
Officials in Nova Scotia say a wildfire in the western part of the province has grown and could force people out of their homes, while cooler temperatures and low winds have helped firefighters in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Long Lake wildfire is expected to grow, said Scott Tingley, manager of forest protection with Nova Scotia’s Natural Resources Department.
The last group of wildfire evacuees forced from their Vancouver Island homes by a blaze north of Nanaimo were allowed to return over the weekend after crews got the fire under control.
The BC Wildfire Service announced Saturday afternoon that crews have made significant progress in combating the Wesley Ridge blaze burning near Cameron Lake.
Susan Eng brought a steely resolve to the many campaigns she waged in the fight for social equity.
But her unflinching public demeanour could be cracked by an old and heavily creased piece of paper that spoke to an unjust chapter of her family’s history: her father’s Chinese head-tax certificate.
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The union that represents thousands of support staff at Ontario’s colleges says the workers have voted to authorize a strike.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says in a news release that members voted 77.3 per cent to authorize a strike, if necessary, to “secure respect at the bargaining table” and secure a contract the workers deserve.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says U.S. President Donald Trump is “creating the opportunity to end Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.”
Carney is praising the U.S. government’s efforts to end the war in a statement today, after Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
A British Columbia legislator said he went from “disappointed” to “enraged” after receiving a pitch from a Republican state senator for Canada’s four western provinces to join the United States.
Brennan Day, with the Opposition B.C. Conservative Party, said his office had to first confirm the authenticity of the “nonsense” letter from Maine Sen. Joseph Martin after receiving it last week.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday welcomed what he said was U.S. openness to providing security guarantees to Ukraine under a peace deal to end Russia’s war against Kyiv.
Zelensky to meet Trump on Monday after U.S.-Russia summit failed to secure ceasefire
“Robust and credible security guarantees are essential to any just and lasting peace. I welcome the openness of the United States to providing security guarantees as part of Coalition of the Willing’s efforts,” Carney said in a statement.
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The federal government ordered Air Canada and its flights attendants into binding arbitration Saturday in an effort to put an end to a strike that has upended the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of people during the height of summer season.
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said she had directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the parties “to resume and continue their operations and duties,” and to extend the terms of the existing collective agreement until a new one is determined by the arbitrator.
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Toronto police say an eight-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet while he was sleeping in bed with his family in the city’s North York neighbourhood early Saturday morning.
The city’s homicide unit says a stray bullet from a shooting outside a building in the Martha Eaton Way and Trethewey Drive area entered the boy’s room at around 12:30 a.m.
The boy was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Vancouver’s ambitious plan to develop thousands of market-rate apartments on city land could eventually bring in enough money to cover almost half of the municipal operating budget, Mayor Ken Sim’s chief of staff says.
That’s the long-term goal, said Trevor Ford, who enthusiastically described the plan as the equivalent of what Vienna, Singapore or the University of British Columbia have done by developing their own land. Vancouver’s current operating budget is $2.34-billion.
When Vett Lloyd was bitten by a tick in 2011, it marked the beginning of a painful, years-long battle with Lyme disease. It also abruptly altered the trajectory of her career.
At the time, Dr. Lloyd’s research at New Brunswick’s Mount Allison University was focused on cancer biology but she wondered why people weren’t paying more attention to ticks. So, she converted her cancer lab into a tick lab and reoriented her life’s work around the tiny bloodsucker that nearly ruined her.
On a stretch of the south arm of the Fraser River, in the Vancouver area, the Cowichan Tribes in centuries past had an annual summer fishing village, a place they defended with a warrior ethos against other Indigenous groups.
But in the mid-1800s, the Cowichan – whose home territory is on Vancouver Island – were displaced from that village as the British took control and, after British Columbia joined Canada, the land was sold over the years.
My friend Tom Mautner is the chair of the board of governors at a school in North London. This week, with students out for the summer, he took me for a tour. For a visitor from Toronto, where schools are run from the top down by a vast bureaucracy – a.k.a. the Toronto District School Board – it was an eye-opener.
Laurel Park is a public secondary school with around 600 students. It was built in the 1960s in what is now an area of mixed incomes and backgrounds. Until just a couple of years ago, it was faring poorly. School inspectors gave it low ratings. Ambitious families shunned it. Disciplinary problems were rife.
Brush crunching under his boots, Justin Parsons studied the plumes of smoke rising high over Heart’s Content Barrens through his binoculars.
“I don’t want to look at this fire any more,” he said, shaking his head.
When he received an evacuation order on Thursday, Mike Pasztor of Annapolis County, N.S., grabbed what he could: a photo of his wife’s daughter who had passed away, some bottles of water and some of his documents.
While his wife left toward Bridgetown, he stuck around to douse his house and the surrounding area with water.
Relatives of war veterans gathered at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender and the official end of the Second World War.
Sweat poured down the faces of those assembled in the August midday heat as the Canadian Armed Forces bugler performed the Last Post.
British Columbia says it will be providing $2.5-million in funding that will allow about 75 poultry farms in the Fraser Valley to upgrade their barns to reduce the risk of avian flu.
The Agriculture Ministry says in a news release that the flu can enter barns through airflow, water sources and other means and, despite increased measures, there have been about 200 outbreaks in the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland since 2022.
A pilot was rescued Friday after a helicopter with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources crashed in shallow water while helping with firefighting efforts.
Other firefighters in the area quickly reached the downed aircraft in Annapolis County, N.S., and found the pilot conscious, said a news release from the department.
Thomas Mete says he is feeling “great relief” now that he knows he’ll be returning to Harvard University to finish the last year of his degree, after a tumultuous summer of limbo.
“I can’t wait to be back in Cambridge,” the fourth-year economics student said in an interview from Montreal this week.
A First Nation in British Columbia says 41 “additional unmarked graves” have been found as a result of a search with ground-penetrating radar on the site of a former residential school.
The shishalh First Nation, on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, said in a release Friday that a team has been scanning the area around St. Augustine’s Residential School site for the last 18 months, at locations identified through interviews with survivors.
Long tables line the community hall in Round Hill, weighed down by hundreds of items of baking, flowers, crops, crafts and canned goods, all entered by locals hoping to snag a coveted prize ribbon at the Agricultural Society’s annual Bench Show.
But standing by the woodwork he was judging, self-confessed politics junkie Mathew Banack has the area’s imminent federal by-election on his mind. He’s sure Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre will win the Battle River—Crowfoot by-race when he and other voters head to the polls on Monday in Alberta.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux has “no idea” who will be taking over his job when his term ends next month.
Giroux, who took on the job in 2018, will mark his final day on September 2.
The voice of Ashlee Shingoose, discussing her determination to start a new life, echoed in a Manitoba Superior Court Friday, as her family addressed a judge for the first time to express the devastation caused by her murder at the hands of a serial killer.
Ms. Shingoose, then 30, had sent the voice clip to her mother, Theresa, shortly before she went missing in March of 2022. She moved to Winnipeg from her Northern Manitoba home in St. Theresa Point First Nation, hoping for better work, but began to struggle with homelessness and was seeking help for addiction issues.
Montreal police have opened a criminal investigation into reports that people at a music festival last weekend were allegedly poisoned without their knowledge.
Police say six people have reported feeling a “sharp prick” in the back of their body while they were in the crowd at the îLESONIQ music festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
Firefighters on Vancouver Island say overnight rain has helped calm an out-of-control wildfire near Port Alberni, B.C.
The BC Wildfire Service says about seven millimetres of rain overnight has lowered the behaviour of the Mount Underwood blaze “to mainly a smouldering ground fire.”
The Pan American Health Organization says Canada has the highest number of measles cases on the continent and more action is needed to address low vaccination rates.
The regional agency within the World Health Organization, which covers North and South America, says there has been an exponential rise in measles this year.
Former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley says an electoral reform protest known as the Longest Ballot Committee is unwarranted and unjustified, and is reiterating his long-standing call for politicians to change election laws to address it.
There are a record 214 candidates running in Monday’s Battle River—Crowfoot by-election, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is hoping to win a seat. Of those names, 201 are linked to the committee.
There was a very happy chicken in a suburb of St. John’s, N.L., on Friday after residents who had been forced to leave their homes because of a wildfire were finally cleared to return.
Hazel, a four-year-old red sex-link chicken, belongs to Susan Barrett, who was evacuated from her Paradise, N.L., home on Tuesday. Barrett was staying at her parents with her husband and their two German shepherds; Hazel had to spend her days sequestered in a garage.
Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales edged up June and a smaller share of firms reported an impact from U.S. tariffs.
The agency said Friday that manufacturing sales in June rose 0.3 per cent to $68.5-billion, breaking a streak of four consecutive monthly declines.
A travelling panel collecting public feedback on Alberta’s grievances with Ottawa struggled to keep an emotionally charged crowd on topic at its third summer town hall on Thursday night.
Premier Danielle Smith and members of her Alberta Next panel drew its biggest crowd yet – nearly 750 people – in Edmonton to brainstorm about possible future referendum questions.
For the first time this century, a rocket built and launched in Canada has reached for outer space – an attempt made not by a private company or government agency, but by a group of engineering students at Concordia University in Montreal who spent seven years turning their homegrown dreams of space flight into reality.
The rocket, dubbed Starsailor, lifted off on Friday at 5:34 a.m. from an isolated launch site in the Mistissini region of Northern Quebec.
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Good morning. If you had to describe a dance to someone who couldn’t see it, what would you say? That idea is the jumping-off point of a new ballet production that explores vision loss, offering a different perspective on performance. More on that below, plus Air Canada interruptions and detained Canadian questions. But first:
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A meeting between Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 postal workers has been delayed until next week due to the availability of federal mediators, the company says.
The two sides, which were set to meet Friday, will now meet on Aug. 20.
When a serial killer was convicted last year of murdering four First Nations women in Winnipeg, the family of one of his victims, Ashlee Shingoose, never got the chance to speak about the impact of his crimes because her identity wasn’t known then.
A Manitoba judge is giving them that opportunity Friday in a special hearing, where members of Ms. Shingoose’s family and community will provide statements for the first time in court.
The 300 or so year-round residents of Bamfield, B.C., are no strangers to power outages, often forced to go a day or so in the winter without electricity in their craggy hamlet on southwestern Vancouver Island.
But, on Thursday, many locals were on edge during their third day without power, as they sought out gas for generators to keep upward of a thousand tourists comfortable and hundreds of kilograms of salmon they had just caught from rotting.
A Canadian-led patrol of the North Pacific earlier this year uncovered dozens of alleged fisheries violations, including illegal shark finning and killing of dolphins.
Sean Wheeler, international enforcement chief for the Fisheries Department, said the two-month surveillance mission was the first to include crews from other countries, including the United States, Japan and South Korea, on a single vessel.
The growing number of Canadian citizens detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is disturbing and raises questions about whether Ottawa is doing enough to ensure the well-being of Canadians in custody, experts say, after revelations that Canadian children as young as two years old have been held for weeks in immigration detention this year.
The Globe and Mail on Thursday published extensive analysis of American enforcement data revealing that 149 Canadian citizens have been held at some point in ICE custody since January, when President Donald Trump took office and ordered an expansive immigration crackdown.
An evacuation order in the West Dalhousie area of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley was expanded late Thursday after a lightning strike ignited nearby woodlands the night before and triggered an intense, out-of-control wildfire.
The County of Annapolis expanded the area covered by an evacuation order that was first issued on Thursday morning and covered about 40 homes.
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