More than a dozen RCMP cruisers converged on a B.C. ostrich farm just before dawn on Monday to execute search warrants, as the owners made a last-ditch effort to prevent the cull of hundreds of birds whose fate has attracted international attention.
Staff Sergeant Kris Clark, a spokesperson for the Mounties in B.C. who was on the scene at the farm in the Kootenay town of Edgewood, told The Globe that officers were there to assist the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which had obtained a warrant to enter the farm beginning at 6 a.m. that day.
The Globe and Mail has been nominated for five Jack Webster Awards, including for coverage of British Columbia’s mental health system in the wake of a deadly attack on a street festival and an investigation into the culture within Canada Soccer before the drone spying scandal at the Paris Olympics.
Nancy Macdonald is a finalist for Best News Reporting of the Year – Print/Digital for her in-depth feature about the impact of fentanyl on Victoria’s Pandora Avenue.
Pandora Avenue has seen an especially stark transformation from a leafy, green gateway boulevard into the city’s downtown to a street of desperation. Ms. Macdonald spent several days in the neighbourhood to measure the toll of the crisis.
B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad abruptly fired his highest-profile MLA ahead of a caucus meeting on Monday where his leadership was on the table, removing a prominent moderate voice of the party.
The MLA, Elenore Sturko, emerged from her legislature office with a box of personal items in hand, saying she had been blindsided by the decision to turf her from caucus and the party.
Two years ago, RCMP officers spying on an alleged ring of extremists in Quebec took notice when one suspect warned on a gun culture podcast about “another Waco.” But another part of his online chat raised more immediate concerns.
Besides talking about the deadly 1993 clash between law enforcement and cult members in Waco, Tex., the suspect had mentioned that he wanted to change the tires and suspension of his Toyota Tacoma pickup.
Sarah McLachlan cancelled musical performances planned for the Sunday premiere of her Lilith Fair documentary in Los Angeles, saying it was a gesture of solidarity to support free speech.
Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched Canada as a reliable trading partner that 'has what the world wants' before an international audience in New York City.
In 2015, Mark Kirton was on a beach in the Bahamas and reading a book about the National Hockey League, in which he had competed as a journeyman centre with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and Vancouver Canucks.
Suddenly, his right biceps muscle started to twitch uncontrollably. The episode marked the beginning of Mr. Kirton’s lengthy battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable neurodegenerative disease. More commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS ultimately makes breathing, eating, talking and walking impossible without medical devices and drugs, leading to paralysis before death.
A Whitehorse-based tech startup is working to simplify medical forms and optimize appointment times to improve the efficiency of the health care system in Yukon and across Canada.
The company, PeerSupport.io, is part of a growing trend of technology companies trying to use artificial intelligence to tackle paperwork, one of the top complaints of health care workers.
The claims of elite junior hockey players who blame the Canadian Hockey League for enabling a widespread hazing culture of assault and abuse are too complex to proceed as a single class action lawsuit, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled on Monday.
However, Ontario’s highest court left the door open for the players to pursue compensation through a series of smaller class actions, and said “there is evidence that serious abuse has long plagued major junior hockey.”
Sarah McLachlan cancelled musical performances planned for the Sunday premiere of her Lilith Fair documentary in Los Angeles, saying it was a gesture of solidarity to support free speech.
The Halifax-born singer-songwriter took the stage before the screening of Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, telling the crowd that she and her fellow musicians had “collectively decided not to perform.”
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Court records show that some Canadians residents unknowingly drank contaminated water for years while Ottawa sat on test results. Now, they’re demanding to know how long they were exposed and when their tap water will be safe to drink again.
A transit strike kicked off Monday morning that could disrupt bus and subway service in Montreal for the next two weeks, as Quebec’s labour minister accused the workers of holding public transit users hostage.
The strike by the Montreal transit agency’s maintenance workers will limit service to morning and evening rush hours and late at night on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The 2,400 maintenance workers are also refusing to work overtime.
The Ontario government says its plan to fund new primary care clinics across the province is paying dividends, with nearly 100,000 patients on the official waiting list for a family doctor having recently found a new medical provider.
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the number of people registered on Health Care Connect has fallen by 42 per cent since the Progressive Conservative government began a concerted effort to expand access to primary care in a province where 2.5 million people did not have a family doctor as of September, 2023.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has removed MPP Chris Scott from the Progressive Conservative caucus after he was charged with assault in what court documents describe as an alleged case of intimate partner violence.
Mr. Scott, a first-term MPPwho represents Sault Ste. Marie in the legislature, is no longer a member of the PC caucus, spokesperson Grace Lee said Monday. He was also the parliamentary assistant to Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce. Mr. Scott now sits as an independent.
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