The City of West Kelowna, B.C., has cited public safety to deny a permit for a concert by American Christian singer Sean Feucht, who is outspoken in the Make America Great Again movement.
The city said in an emailed statement on Wednesday that the permit for a concert in Memorial Park on Saturday had been sought by the Burn 24/7 Canada Worship Ministries Society.
Scott Tingley with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources says it’s rare to be simultaneously monitoring a hurricane while fighting wildfires in the province.
The Long Lake wildfire in the Annapolis Valley remains out of control, and is composed of a series of fires that cover roughly 32 square kilometres of land. Meanwhile Hurricane Erin, tracking northward between the Carolinas and Bermuda, is expected to bring strong winds to Nova Scotia by Friday into Saturday – but no rainfall.
For Canada Games Council CEO Kelly-Ann Paul, the timing of Air Canada’s strike was nothing short of “surreal.”
Air Canada grounded thousands of flights last Saturday when its flight attendants went on strike. This disrupted the Canada Games in St. John’s, N.L., which run Aug. 8-25, with teenage athletes from across the country flying in and out throughout.
Snagging the commission to furnish the commissioner-general’s suite in Moshe Safdie’s Habitat complex at Montreal’s Expo 67 was quite a coup for 26-year-old furniture jobber Klaus Nienkamper. He had sailed to Canada from his native Germany in 1960 with only $36 in his pocket, and eked out a living soon after as “right rear vacuum man” at Farb’s Car Wash on Toronto’s King Street West.
As Mr. Nienkamper recalled in his eponymous furniture company’s Festschrift, Nienkamper: 50 Years of Excellence from Design to Delivery, published in 2018, “I did not have a factory. My only asset was a station wagon, and I had everything produced in small shops in and around Toronto.”
Patients, doctors, nurses and medical organizations across Canada have sounded the alarm for years about what they call the dire state of emergency room care.
The family of a teen who died in Ontario after he waited several hours for urgent medical care is also calling for urgent reforms.
Canada must prepare for more seasons marked by severe drought, experts say as this summer's bone-dry conditions tormented farmers, strained municipal water supply and fuelled one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the head of the company that owns Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco “doesn’t give two hoots” about the workers, pointing to Lourenco Goncalves’s praise for U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel. During a press conference in Hamilton, Ont., Ford said Stelco should find a new owner.
Verona Scorsone-Jung and her new best friend are jumping off the dock at their summer camp, swimming to the ladder and doing it all over again in a continuous loop of carefree summer fun.
Then there’s a pause, because 10-year-old Verona wants to explain a few things about having Tourette syndrome.
Left to right, Evelyn Simmons, 14, and Violet Mcallister, 10, swim with fellow campers at Camp Maple Leaf on August 12, 2025. (Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail)
Canada must prepare for more seasons marked by severe drought, experts say as this summer’s bone-dry conditions tormented farmers, strained municipal water supply and fuelled one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.
Seventy-one per cent of the country was either abnormally dry or under drought conditions as of the end of July, according to the federal government’s drought monitor released last week.
The CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival is apologizing for pulling and then reinstating Montreal filmmaker Barry Avrich's documentary about a retired Israeli general's mission to rescue his family during the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. Cameron Bailey spoke at an event touting the festival's Canadian lineup.
Last fall, governments across Canada enacted policies that restricted phone use in the classroom – with rules varying for elementary schools and high schools. The increased use of cellphones and social media by students has been a source of concern for policy makers, educators and parents. The devices and platforms have been blamed for incidents of cyberbullying, disrupted sleep patterns and the inability of young people to focus.
Atlantic Canada’s largest university has locked out about 1,000 professors and other teaching staff less than two weeks before the start to the fall term.
Dalhousie University in Halifax locked out its employees around 9:30 a.m. amid a contract dispute with the faculty association.
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