Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is adding proof of citizenship markers to driver’s licences and other forms of identification to streamline services and prevent election fraud.

Smith told reporters in Calgary the change would make it easier for students and the disabled to get funding, as they already have to prove Canadian citizenship to do so.

A fiscal update released Monday shows British Columbia’s provincial outlook has declined and the government’s deficit will rise in the current fiscal year to a record $11.6-billion, in part due to U.S. tariffs and a slowdown in the housing market.

But mostly, the rise in red ink is a result of the NDP government’s elimination of the carbon tax.

Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador will be heading to the polls on Oct. 14.

Liberal Leader John Hogan is seeking his first electoral win as premier. His main challenger is Progressive Conservative Leader Tony Wakeham.

The family of a toddler killed when an SUV drove into a daycare north of Toronto is speaking out and demanding change to boost safety in all childcare facilities.

One-and-a-half-year-old Liam Riazati died Wednesday after a vehicle drove into a Richmond Hill, Ont., daycare, leaving six young children and three adults injured.

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As we continue to experience longer and more destructive wildfire seasons, there have been many stories about the effect the smoke pollution has on our personal health. Today, we have a story about how it is affecting landscapes far beyond the reach of the flames.

The Montreal mother who abandoned her three-year-old girl in a rural Ontario field in June has been declared not criminally responsible for the crime.

Quebec court Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud ruled on Monday that the 34-year-old woman could not be held criminally responsible by way of mental disorder. She had been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and unlawful abandonment of a child.

For the rest of the day the court was scheduled to hear testimony on whether the woman – whose name cannot be published to protect the identity of her daughter – should be released from detention while she receives medical treatment.

A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man are facing charges including second-degree murder after a homeless man died as a result of several violent attacks on people in Toronto’s downtown core, police said Monday.

Toronto police Det. Sgt. Stacey McCabe said the attacks targeted vulnerable people and took place between 5:45 a.m. and 8:07 a.m. on Aug. 31.

A rise in manufacturing sales in July could indicate early signs of a recovery after the sector was hit hard by tariffs, one economist says. 

Statistics Canada reported on Monday that manufacturing sales rose 2.5 per cent to $70.3-billion in July, helped by strength in the transportation equipment subsector. 

Your Tim Hortons order might soon come with a side of Canadian Tire money.

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. CTC-A-T announced Monday that it’s partnering with the coffee giant to dish out perks to customers of both brands.

Magna International MG-T has signed a deal to assemble two electric vehicle models for Chinese automaker Xpeng XPEV-N in Europe.

Financial terms of the deal agreement were not immediately available.

Good morning. A string of national project promises, Pierre Poilievre’s return and an NDP leadership race make for an interesting return to Parliament today. More on that below, plus a welcome to interest rate decision day and to marathon season. Let’s get to it.

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The FBI is investigating the June death of a Canadian man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a federally run prison in Florida.

Johnny Noviello, 49, was found unresponsive by prison staff at the Federal Detention Center Miami on June 23. He had been on medication for epilepsy and hypertension while incarcerated and, according to a recent ICE report, had been flagged for health concerns prior to his death. The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner has yet to release an official cause of death or autopsy report.

Canadian journalist and longtime CTV News anchor Beverly Thomson has died.

Thomson, who is best known for her high-profile interviews with politicians and celebrities, died on Sunday morning surrounded by her family after a long battle with cancer, CTV News reported. She was 61.

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal was completed without incident on Sunday despite hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters lining the route amidst a wave of demonstrations against Israeli sports teams worldwide.

The protesters in Montreal were objecting to the Israel-Premier Tech team, an outfit founded by the Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, participating in the city’s flagship cycling race.

Two men and two women from a remote Manitoba First Nation died Saturday when the bush plane they were in crashed, leaving the pilot and sole survivor with serious injuries.

RCMP say their detachment in Island lake, Man., got a report on Saturday evening that a plane had crashed approximately 40 kilometres south of St. Theresa Point First Nation, near its destination of Makepeace Lake.

Sgt. Paul Manaigre said police were informed of the crash by an iPhone satellite emergency crash notification service, which he said was able to pinpoint the location for police.

For about 100 years, the presbytery on De Castelnau street in Montreal’s Villeray borough was home to Catholics who lived and prayed there. Now, the cats are taking over.

From paintings, historic photographs, book covers and shiny stuffed animal eyes, they stare down at visitors from the walls of Le Miaousée, which bills itself as the first cat museum in both Montreal and Canada.

Bonnie Crombie has asked the Ontario Liberal Party to launch a leadership vote and says she will resign as leader once her successor is chosen, after a disappointing review of her time at the helm.

Ms. Crombie’s decision to step down came abruptly early Sunday evening, hours after Ontario Liberal members reluctantly agreed to keep her as leader and after she initially said she intended to stay on. It means the party will hold its third leadership contest since 2018, when the party lost government and was relegated to third place in the legislature.

A report that could shed more light on why Manitoba’s former Progressive Conservative government rejected calls to search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims is being withheld under the province’s freedom of information law.

Records obtained by The Canadian Press show senior bureaucrats assembled a presentation for cabinet ministers on a potential search in the weeks before the government decided not to proceed with the idea in 2023.

Ten people were arrested when a demonstration calling for deportations and an end to mass immigration was met by a counterdemonstration in a Toronto park known as the scene of a historic antisemitic riot.

Hundreds of people supporting immigration gathered at Toronto’s Christie Pits Park on Saturday afternoon in response to a demonstration encouraging mass deportations and nationalism called Canada First.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has launched a new federal housing agency that he says will partner with the private sector to build non-market homes for Canadians struggling with affordability.

Mr. Carney announced on Sunday that the government is providing Build Canada Homes with $13-billion in initial capital.

A spokesperson for Universal Ostrich Farms says the farm will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to stop the culling of 400 ostriches hit by avian flu, but it is not clear yet whether Canada’s highest court will hear the case. 

Katie Pasitney said the farm remains hopeful that it will get another chance to make its case, after Federal Court of Appeal Justice Gerald Heckman ruled Friday the cull of the animals must be allowed to proceed.

“So we would be asking the Supreme Court to hear all of the evidence,” she said. “The health of the animals is imperative to what we’re fighting for.”

Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says federal security agencies initially refused to offer her protection – and wouldn’t even show her the risk assessment they’d completed – as she faced a rising tide of threats and harassment online and in person.

McKenna was the Liberal MP for Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021 and served in cabinet the entire time, first as environment minister and later as the minister of infrastructure.

Canada advanced to the 2026 Davis Cup Qualifiers after taking a 3-0 lead over Israel in a best-of-five tie played in an empty Halifax stadium amid protests.

Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., and Cleeve Harper of Calgary came back from a set down to defeat Jordan Hasson and Ofek Shimanov 5-7, 6-0, 6-4 in Saturday’s first match.

Remembered by colleagues and friends as generous, humble, mischievous and a great cook, Graham Greene was, above all, a versatile actor whose career spanned half a century and broke down racial stereotypes of Indigenous people as violent aggressors or victims.

Probably best known for his role as Kicking Bird, a Sioux tribal leader in Kevin Costner’s 1990 epic film Dances with Wolves, Mr. Greene was a trailblazer in presenting Indigenous characters with human complexity and depth.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many Canadians were desperate for information about the virus. Fear was running high. Answers were in short supply.

There was also heightened concern, shared by Canada’s then-chief public health officer, that Indigenous people were at greater risk for worse illness, including death, because of factors including health inequities and higher rates of underlying conditions, as well as challenges accessing medical care.

Doug Ford is a tough-on-crime guy. He backs our men and women in blue to the hilt. He rants about judges letting crooks off too easily. He believes in enforcing the law.

Except, it seems, the law against destroying public property. When vandals destroyed 16 Toronto speed cameras this week, he didn’t seem especially bothered. While Mayor Olivia Chow denounced the acts of “lawlessness” and police said they were striving to catch the perpetrators, Ontario’s Premier delivered a diatribe against the cameras instead.

A University of Toronto professor whose social-media post after the assassination of American political activist Charlie Kirk was criticized by Ontario’s Minister of Colleges and Universities is now on leave, according to the university.

Ruth Marshall, an associate professor in religious studies and politics, has been placed on administrative leave, the University of Toronto’s faculty association confirmed Friday.

More than two months after her entire Northern Manitoba community was forced to flee from a raging wildfire this summer, Beverly Baker has no idea when she will be allowed to go back home.

The flames near Leaf Rapids, a scenic town with a population of 350, have been under control since last month. Evacuees were being prepared to return this week. But on Friday, residents were told they will have to wait even more – at least until October – because their homes are no longer habitable.

The Globe and Mail has won an Online Journalism Award for a project that examined the state of Canada’s housing crisis.

The House Poor project won in the category of Explanatory Reporting, Large Newsroom.

A Federal Court of Appeal judge says the cull of about 400 ostriches at a British Columbia farm hit by avian flu must be allowed to proceed, in a ruling that dismisses the farm’s bid for a stay of execution.

Justice Gerald Heckman says in Friday’s ruling that Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., also failed to establish any “serious or arguable issue” that needs to be addressed by the Supreme Court of Canada.

It was a surreal scene in Halifax on Friday as Canada kicked off its Davis Cup tennis tie against Israel behind closed doors at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax.

Save for athletes and staff of the two teams and the necessary officials, who were either on the court or courtside, the venue that normally holds more than 10,500 spectators was completely empty.

Imagine Neil Armstrong had been a poet, and came back from the Apollo 11 mission with just the right words to capture our place in the cosmos.

That’s what it meant, for Canada, to have Ken Dryden on the 1970s Montreal Canadiens. Under normal circumstances we would never know what it was like to play for the greatest hockey team of all time; that particular experience of touching the heavens would remain locked away in the relatively unpoetic minds of Steve Shutt and Jacques Lemaire.

Group of Seven finance ministers agreed Friday to look for ways to increase financial support for Ukraine after an incursion into Poland by Russian drones earlier this week.

A virtual meeting chaired by Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne Friday discussed ways to boost pressure on Moscow to end its war on Ukraine.

Ken Dryden holds a special place in the hearts of many Canadians. Revered for his outsized talent on the ice – as well as for his post-NHL accomplishments in politics, law and writing – he inspired countless people along the way.

After his death at the age of 78 following a battle with cancer, many Globe and Mail readers took the time to send in their memories, personal stories that reveal the sense of awe they felt upon meeting him. Here is a selection of what they shared. Submissions have been edited for clarity and length.

Global Affairs Canada summoned Russian ambassador Oleg Stepanov over the incursion of Russian drones into Poland this week, as Ottawa looks to help a new effort by the NATO military alliance reinforce its eastern flank.

The summoning occurred hours after Poland reported multiple Russian drones had entered Polish territory between Tuesday and Wednesday. NATO allies shot down some of the devices.

Vancouver city officials say a $5-million policing crackdown in the Downtown Eastside has produced a sharp drop in crime and calls for service, a claim met with praise and skepticism from those in the embattled neighbourhood.

Earlier this week, Mayor Ken Sim, Chief Constable Steve Rai and Fire Chief Karen Fry said the six-month enforcement blitz launched in February drove down robberies by 44 per cent, serious assaults by 23 per cent, violent crime by 18 per cent and structure fires by 30 per cent year-over-year during the enforcement period. Firefighter-attended overdose calls fell 36 per cent across the Downtown Eastside, Yaletown and Strathcona.

Canada hosted a virtual meeting of G7 finance ministers today to discuss further measures to increase the pressure on Russia.

John Fragos, press secretary for the Minister of Finance and National Revenue, says the group also talked about ways to limit Russia’s “war machinery.”

The head of a British Columbia restaurant industry association says businesses are in a state of “nervousness and anxiety” over possible liquor distribution disruptions as public service labour strife expands to several warehouses.

The BC General Employees’ Union announced Friday that it was escalating job action by starting an overtime ban at several Liquor Distribution Branch warehouse locations.

A former federal justice minister has asked the Supreme Court of Canada to allow more lawyers to appear in person for a landmark Charter case involving Quebec’s secularism law.

Allan Rock, who was justice minister from 1993 to 1997, invoked reasons of “public confidence” and the “appearance of democracy” in a letter dated Sept. 10. He is counsel for the Samara Centre for Democracy, a Toronto-based charity that promotes civic engagement. It is one of a record 38 intervenors in the Quebec secularism case.

Writer and publisher Zdena Salivarova, who died of respiratory complications in Toronto’s Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital on Aug. 25 at the age of 91, became an iconic figure in Czech and Slovak literature and a legend among her countrymen and countrywomen.

At a time when her homeland was under Soviet occupation, she published, from modest offices in her adopted city of Toronto, over 200 original titles by authors who had been banned or driven into exile. The company she founded in 1971 with the support of her husband, novelist Josef Skvorecky, was not only a lifeline to its writers and a beacon of hope to its readers, it was an act of defiance, one of the many that helped, in the end, to undermine the regime.

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie says she is feeling confident as she heads into a leadership review at the party’s annual meeting this weekend. But she doesn’t want to talk about how much of the vote she’ll need to show that she has the broad support of her third-place party.

Ms. Crombie, who took the reins of the party in 2023 but failed to win her own race in this year’s election, will be facing more than 2,000 delegates, who will be asked whether they want to hold a leadership contest within the next year.

A juvenile humpback whale nicknamed Tutu is swimming freely again after a multiday mission to disentangle it from more than 150 metres of fishing gear off Vancouver Island.

Paul Cottrell, a marine mammal co-ordinator with the federal Fisheries Department, says the rescue team received several reports from the public about the 4½-year-old whale towing a fishing buoy near Texada Island in the northern Salish Sea on Sept. 4.

Schools across Quebec have been forced to cancel bus service after the government pulled all of the roughly 1,200 Lion LEV-T electric buses in the province off the roads.

The provincial government said it took the precautionary measure after a Lion electric school bus caught fire in Montreal earlier this week. Several children and a driver were inside the bus when it caught fire, but no one was injured.

Tylenol has long been the drug of choice for safely treating pain and fever during pregnancy. But it appears the Make America Healthy Again movement may be about to call this common wisdom into question.

Last week, sources told the Wall Street Journal that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce Tylenol use in pregnancy as a potential cause of autism – a disorder that’s long been a fixation for the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary.

Ottawa’s chief data officer says he thinks the introduction of artificial intelligence to federal government operations will lead to “some” job cuts in the public service.

In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, Stephen Burt said he thinks the impacts are going to vary widely and will be job-specific, with different outcomes in different areas.