A pilot and passenger have died in a plane crash near an airport in central Alberta.
RCMP say they were dispatched to the crash shortly after noon on Saturday, and the plane was located approximately 1.2 kilometres short of the local airport runway in Vermilion, Alta.
Police say there were two occupants in the plane – the 46-year-old female pilot who was a resident of Slave Lake, Alta., and a 76-year-old male passenger, a resident of Mannville, Alta.
<p>The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</p>
Peel police say a man is facing charges following an investigation into allegations of child abuse at a public school in Mississauga. A Peel Regional Police logo is shown in Brampton, Ont., on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston)
Parts of Ontario and Quebec will be slammed with “dangerously hot” temperatures for at least the next few days.
Environment Canada issued its first significant heat warning of the season on Saturday for southern and eastern Ontario and southern and western Quebec.
Four people remained unaccounted for Saturday after a medical transport helicopter crashed on Quebec’s North Shore during a rescue operation.
The helicopter, operated by Airmedic, was involved in an accident around 10:30 p.m. on Friday near Natashquan, Que., a little more than 1,000 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
Hundreds gathered Saturday at events across Canada to mark Indigenous Peoples Day, with messages of optimism about future reconciliation mixed with criticism that there remains much to be done.
Events held Saturday included the Na-Me-Res Traditional Powwow and Indigenous Arts Festival at the Fort York National Historic Site in Toronto, as well as large public gatherings in cities such as Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa and Winnipeg.
It may seem unusual for restaurants to hire deaf servers, but one Ottawa restaurateur is doing so and says accessibility can be seamlessly built into every aspect of the dining experience.
At Moe Alameddine’s downtown Ottawa restaurant Dark Fork, deaf and hearing guests dine side by side – with no communication barriers. Each table is equipped with illustrated menus showing American Sign Language signs for every dish and drink, along with notepads and pens for customers who prefer to write down their orders.
Near the Don River in central Toronto, a new building rises with unusual grace. The new home of Anishnawbe Health Toronto does not assert itself with height or flash. It invites – with curves, with textures, with sound.
Its outer skin is clad in aluminum panels, each perforated with a flowing pattern inspired by ceremonial shawls. The panels curve gently around the structure, lined by a fringe of stainless-steel beads that tremble in the wind. The beads catch the light and make a quiet, persistent music.
Some time in late May, a young male grizzly made an improbable journey to Texada Island, one of the few rural communities in British Columbia that is considered bear-free. His most likely path involved a challenging but not impossible swim of about five kilometres across the Malaspina Strait from the mainland.
The bear who has been dubbed “Tex” is believed to be four years old – a teenager who would have been chased from his home by bigger grizzlies, including his mother.
The Liberal government's major projects bill has passed the House of Commons thanks to help from the Conservative Party. Prime Minister Mark Carney calls the legislation the core of his government's domestic economic response to U.S. tariffs.
Rescue teams searching for victims in a rockfall along a hiking trail in Banff National Park have found a second body. Parks Canada and RCMP say the person was found Friday morning and officials are notifying family.
Scientist Daniel Shugar says images of the aftermath of Thursday’s deadly rock slide in Banff National Park provide evidence of its cause – water flowing through the interior of the mountain.
“You can actually see some springs coming out of the cliff and actually coming out exactly from the scar itself,” said the University of Calgary professor of geomorphology.
The federal government has launched an internal review of its access to information law, but one expert says the examination lacks legitimacy and falls short of the desires of transparency advocates.
When Amanda Smith learned at the age of 25 that she had late-onset Type 1 diabetes, she considered the diagnosis a death sentence.
The nurse, from London, Ont., had a particularly dim view of the disease because she grew up watching her mother struggle with it. Her mother would slur her words and lose consciousness when her blood sugar bottomed out. Once, Ms. Smith’s grandfather had to break a window to reach her mother, who was passed out in her home holding a banana she had tried to consume to raise her blood sugar.
Claudia Linklater sits at the stovetop range in the kitchenette of her west Toronto hotel room, opening and pouring cans of tomato soup into a big stockpot full of rice and ground beef.
“It has to be Campbell’s,” she says about the specific brand of soup that her fellow community members prefer.
Conservative members of Parliament voted with the minority Liberal government to pass its marquee major projects legislation Friday evening, setting it up to become law before Canada Day.
The legislation, also known as the one Canadian economy act, would allow the government to green-light a list of projects that have been deemed to be in the national interest, fast-tracking their approvals.
A flock of nearly 400 British Columbia ostriches that gained international fame after they were ordered killed due to an avian flu outbreak have been given a stay of execution – at least for now.
The Federal Court of Appeal has granted the stay that pauses the potential cull at Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., which was ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in December and has become embroiled in court processes.
The countdown to summer vacation in Ontario will be blistering as Environment Canada forecasts temperatures topping 30 C across much of the province’s South and East, including Toronto and Ottawa, starting Sunday and into at least Tuesday.
The heat wave will also affect parts of Southern Quebec, and edge into Manitoba and New Brunswick.
Rescue teams searching for victims in a rockfall along a hiking trail in Banff National Park have found a second body. Parks Canada and RCMP say the person was found Friday morning and officials are notifying family.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Harvard University from hosting international students.
An order from U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs preserves the ability of Harvard to host foreign students while the case is decided. It marks another victory for the Ivy League school as it challenges multiple government sanctions amid a battle with the White House.
The Montreal mother who allegedly abandoned her three-year-old daughter in rural Ontario, triggering a four-day hunt for the child across two provinces, will remain detained until her bail hearing early next month.
On Friday, the mother’s legal-aid lawyer said he will try to have his client released pending the outcome of the criminal case, adding that he is working on a plan to get her the help she needs. The 34-year-old woman faces one count of unlawful abandonment of a child, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from the immigration detention centecentree he has been held since early March while the Trump administration sought to deport him over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.
Ruling from the bench in New Jersey, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz said it would be “highly, highly unusual” for the government to continue to detain a legal U.S. resident who was unlikely to flee and hadn’t been accused of any violence.
The death toll from Thursday’s fatal rock slide in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is expected to hold at two, with three people who were transported to hospital in stable condition, authorities said Friday.
Francois Masse, Parks Canada superintendent of the Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay field unit, said authorities believe they have accounted for all the hikers who were near Bow Glacier Falls at the time of the slide. Rescue teams on Thursday evacuated 13 people from the scene in Banff National Park.
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