British Columbia’s Provincial Health Services Authority has quietly cut more than 50 staff and eliminated more than 60 vacant positions amid a government-ordered spending review and a previously unpublicized directive to balance its budget, internal memos show.

Members of the health authority’s executive leadership team announced the layoffs in a series of five memos sent to their staff between July 23 and Aug. 5 and obtained by The Globe and Mail.

The U.S. Department of Commerce says it has made a final decision to more than double countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, a move business groups in British Columbia say will harm communities on both sides of the border.

A statement from the American department said the duty for most Canadian companies is being increased to 14.63 per cent, up from 6.74 per cent, after it determined softwood lumber from Canada was being unfairly subsidized.

L'astronaute était le commandant de la célèbre mission lunaire qui avait échappé de peu à la catastrophe.

Alberta is appealing a temporary injunction of a law banning doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

A judge granted the injunction in June, ruling the provincial law raises serious Charter issues that need to be hashed out in an ongoing court challenge of the legislation.

La Japonaise s'excuse d’avoir omis de féliciter Victoria Mboko pour sa victoire à l'OBN après la finale.

Selon une étude récente, la concentration de cyanobactéries est accentuée par le réchauffement climatique.

Le prix plafond pour un baril de pétrole brut transporté par voie maritime passera de 60 $ US à 47,60 $ US.

L'annonce du plan israélien a suscité une vive réprobation internationale.

Conservateurs et péquistes s'entendent pour dire que la bataille d'Arthabaska demeurera serrée jusqu'à la fin.

Il s'agit d'une première pour le cycliste québécois lors d'une course de catégorie World Tour.

A Vancouver Island artist who was evacuated from her home studio near an out-of-control wildfire says she remains nervous despite being allowed back this week.

Ina-Griet Raatz-von Hirschhausen, whose home is a few kilometres from the Wesley Ridge wildfire near Cameron Lake, said she is waiting a bit longer to bring back half of her art collection, which was taken to a friend’s home when her family was told to evacuate late Sunday.

A British Columbia First Nation has won a major court victory, with a judge declaring it has title to a portion of land in the Vancouver area that includes currently active industrial operations on the Fraser River.

Justice Barbara Young of the B.C. Supreme Court declared the Cowichan Tribes “have established Aboriginal title” to roughly 800 acres in the City of Richmond, as well as an Aboriginal right to fish for food. Her 863-page ruling – from a trial that stretched 513 days over five years, from 2019 to 2023 – was issued Thursday and published online Friday.

L'offre ferait des agents de bord d'Air Canada les « mieux payés au Canada », assure un porte-parole.

Canadian doctors and scientists say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defunding of mRNA vaccine research and development projects will have negative health effects in Canada and around the world.

“I think that Canadians do need to understand that this and a lot of the changes that Kennedy is making to vaccination policy in particular are definitely going to affect Canadians,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization.

C’est à Berlin que se déroulera l’intrigue du prochain roman de l'écrivain, prévu pour le 19 novembre.

Jenni Byrne a également dirigé les campagnes de l’ancien premier ministre Stephen Harper.

L'Ontarienne a triomphé face à l'ancienne no 1 mondiale Naomi Osaka en finale de l’Omnium Banque Nationale.

Elle a également dirigé les campagnes de l'ancien premier ministre Stephen Harper en 2011 et en 2015.

Objectifs : « regagner la confiance de la population » et « rétablir » les finances de la société d'État.

Baklava pastries containing pistachios are being recalled over salmonella concerns.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a recall notice for some Andalos brand pastries distributed in New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec and sold online.

The national average asking rent in July fell 3.6 per cent from a year earlier to $2,121, marking the 10th straight month of year-over-year decreases and the largest drop of 2025 so far.

The latest monthly report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation says asking rents held roughly steady in July on a month-over-month basis, down $4 from June.

La femme de 34 ans est évaluée à l’Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel, à Montréal.

La hausse s’appliquera au « facteur militaire ». Un soldat à l’échelon 1 verra sa rémunération augmenter de 20 %.

Victoria Mboko beat four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka at the National Bank Open in Montreal.

Bob Pushie pulled a small piece of paper from his shirt pocket, where he had written a candidate’s name the day before, and double-checked the spelling on his ballot.

“I had a little cheat sheet,” Mr. Pushie said Friday, after he cast his advanced vote for the Aug. 18 federal by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot.

The Manitoba Museum might have one of the largest collections of Hudson’s Bay artifacts, but its CEO isn’t bitter the defunct retailer’s crown jewel isn’t destined for her institution.

There will soon be a new home for the 355-year-old royal charter that birthed the Bay, giving it extraordinary control over a vast swath of unceded lands – and enormous influence over settlers’ early relations with Indigenous Peoples.

Canadian job seekers and young workers are struggling through the dog days of summer even as the labour market shows limited strain from U.S. tariffs.

Statistics Canada on Friday reported 41,000 job losses last month, while economists had expected a slight gain.

Good morning. Two young children went missing in rural Nova Scotia more than three months ago. A closer look into their lives shows that all was not well, as their mysterious disappearance continues to baffle the country. More on their case below, plus what to know about a very Cold War-like summit and why collage art is back. But first:

Today’s headlines

• Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City
• Nova Scotia is banning recreational activities in wooded areas to prevent wildfires
• Some Métis leaders say they are optimistic that Ottawa will respect Indigenous rights on major projects legislation
• Victoria Mboko prevails against Naomi Osaka in National Bank Open final, capping a stunning run

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Deep in the middle of Nova Scotia, far from its quaint coastal towns, sits Lansdowne – a hamlet of around 100 people in a cellular dead zone. It’s surrounded by endless spruce forests, bushes like razor wire and bogs that breed swarms of black flies.

Like many faded settlements across the Maritimes, Lansdowne reached its peak more than a century ago. About 150 kilometres northeast of Halifax, it was once a busy railway stop bustling with Scottish immigrants who dug iron and copper mines deep into the hillsides.

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L’International de montgolfières prend son envol pour une 42e édition vendredi à Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Donald Trump fait pression pour redessiner les circonscriptions, et les démocrates comptent faire de même.

Pleins feux sur la culture japonaise avec la 20^e édition d'Otakuthon au Palais des congrès de Montréal.

La vie du chanteur innu fait l’objet d’un documentaire intimiste qui arrive sur nos écrans ces jours-ci.

Standing along the rocky shores of Cape Breton Island, Jonathan Kanary is trying not to feel completely defeated. The manager and backcountry guide of a Nova Scotia adventure-tourism company, Live Life InTents, has been turning away customer after customer, many of whom drove across the country or flew overseas to be there.

Nearby, atop the Mabou Highlands walled by the Atlantic Ocean, Capes 100, a world-renowned trail race, has been cancelled this weekend – with organizers issuing deferrals and partial refunds for dozens of participants, while mile-marker signage is being haphazardly taken down by hand.

L'Américain a vaincu le Russe Karen Khachanov 6-7 (5/7), 6-4 et 7-6 (7/3) en finale à Toronto.

A pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the home of Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has sparked calls for the government to consider security measures to protect politicians from protests at their residences.

A group of up to 60 protesters chanted slogans, rang bells, banged pots and projected messages onto Ms. Joly’s house in Montreal on Wednesday evening, in an escalation of protest activity over the situation in Gaza.

Canadian officials say it is not possible for wildfire fighters to lessen the impact of smoke drifting across vast swathes of the country and blanketing some American states, after several U.S. lawmakers complained that Canada is not doing enough to combat the smokey conditions.

Officials with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre – a non-profit broker of staff and equipment owned and operated by federal, provincial and territorial wildland fire management agencies – held a briefing Thursday, which was attended by multiple American news outlets.

A judge has reserved his decision on whether to review a proposed Alberta separation referendum question.

Court of King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby is expected to give his ruling Aug. 14.

The matter stems from Alberta chief electoral officer Gordon McClure referring the proposed question to the Edmonton court last week. He has asked the judge to determine whether the question violates the Constitution, including treaty rights.

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La Canadienne de 18 ans s'est imposée en trois manches face à la Japonaise Naomi Osaka en finale.

He’s an NBA superstar and champion, but Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has never forgotten his roots.

Gilgeous-Alexander received the key to the city of Hamilton from Mayor Andrea Horwath at a public rally Thursday at Hamilton Stadium.

The obituaries following the death of Hilary Weston have focused on her philanthropy and that of the W. Garfield Weston Foundation (now the Weston Family Foundation), but there is one aspect that I would like to highlight.

In 2007, Gospel Mission on Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside, (not to be confused with Union Gospel Mission), launched a project to build a shower facility for people in the area. Churches and individuals donated; businesses contributed supplies and tradespeople gave of their time. Volunteers ran the place. The Lord’s Rain, as we called it, opened in April, 2008.

A Quebec minister responsible for fighting racism is criticizing a ruling by a judge who reduced a convicted Black man’s sentence due to systemic discrimination.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Christopher Skeete said that someone’s race should not be a factor affecting sentencing for a crime.

A Newfoundland wildfire is forcing another 900 people to evacuate their homes as increasing temperatures continue to fuel multiple out-of-control wildfires across the province.

A great shift is underway in Toronto months after the closures of several supervised drug-use sites, as their users seek alternatives and drop-in centres see an alarming jump in overdoses.

Some segments of the city’s homeless population have resettled near remaining drug-use sites, but fluctuating intakes have been reported at different locations.

Le sport féminin vit une belle période, mais les récents gains ne doivent pas laisser place à la complaisance.

Buying a house is the largest purchase most Canadians will ever make and finally paying off the mortgage is likely to be a game changer.

But before the temptation to splurge on a pricey new car or a luxury vacation takes hold, experts say it’s important to review your financial plan for this next chapter to ensure you’re on track for wherever you want to go.

Over the course of his decades-long acting career, Michael Blake built a reputation within the Canadian theatre industry for being quiet. Backstage, he was known to be thoughtful, perhaps even overly so – he took his time to flesh out the tiniest details of a given character’s psyche. At the Stratford Festival and beyond, he was slow, methodical. Every line had to be perfect.

But fellow actor Jordin Hall, a younger Stratford Festival mainstay who regarded Mr. Blake as a mentor, saw a different side of the artist. On days off from acting, they bonded watching televised Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts, and at work, they shared Hi-Chew candies and giggled together onstage, even whispering inside jokes during performances. In 2023, a murmured reference to a silly line from All’s Well That Ends Well during a death scene in Richard III nearly sent a performance into chaos, according to Mr. Hall. “We had a great laugh, and I nearly croaked,” he said. “But it was worth it.”

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Mihailovic s’était joint aux Rapids du Colorado en provenance du club néerlandais AZ en janvier 2024.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling on Métis leaders to help transform the economy in response to an increasingly unsteady trade relationship with the United States under President Donald Trump. During a meeting scheduled to discuss his government's major projects legislation, Carney said building up the Canadian economy will rely on partnerships with Indigenous Peoples, and that the partnership has the potential to benefit all.

La procureure de la Couronne a informé la cour qu’elle n’avait pas de preuve contre Teresita Fuentes.