The Calgary Stampede will kick off Friday morning with a parade led by country music superstar Shania Twain. Stampede CEO Joel Cowley says the 10-day celebration of the western way of life attracted 1.47 million visitors last year.
A group of Canadian academics is calling on the federal government to speed up approvals of student visas for Palestinians after two students who were accepted at a Canadian university died before they could leave the region.
Ayman Oweida, chair of the Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk Network, said the two students, twin sisters, were killed in an airstrike in Gaza in December.
The party tents are up, straw bales are scattered around sidewalks and the most crucial 10 days of the year are in full swing for one Calgary bar and restaurant operator.
The Calgary Stampede is a yearly celebration of western culture that kicks off Friday with a parade and includes rodeo events, concerts, carnival games, midway rides, neighbourhood pancake breakfasts, corporate shindigs and a whole lot of cowboy cosplay.
They work on gruesome scenes of death, sometimes traversing rough terrain to access bodies in various states of decomposition.
British Columbia field coroner Leena Chandi said the things that she and her colleagues encounter “are not what most people see, and nobody should have to see that.”
Good morning. Burnout since the onset of the pandemic has led to hospital staff shortages across the country, with rural communities hit the hardest. More on that below, updates to our reporting on tuberculosis, ticks and tennis. But first:
This project aims to document every instance in which a hospital emergency department (ER) in Canada closed its doors – temporarily or permanently – since 2019. For each closure, The Globe and Mail captured the ER’s name, start and end times, and the reason for the disruption.
Explore the interactive map below to browse ER closures across Canada, as compiled by The Globe and Mail.
The northern Manitoba town of Lynn Lake has issued a mandatory evacuation order as a nearby wildfire threatens to cause an imminent loss of power to the community.
The evacuation begins Friday, though officials haven’t provided a time for when residents must be out of their homes.
An RCMP equipment failure is responsible for igniting a wildfire near Lytton, B.C., stirring painful memories for a community that is still rebuilding after being levelled by fire four years earlier.
A Mountie who was in the area searching for a missing swimmer was towing a police boat along Highway 12 northeast of the village in B.C.’s Interior on Canada Day when a wheel ejected from the right side of the trailer, causing a fire in a grass-filled ditch, said B.C. RCMP spokesman Staff Sergeant Kris Clark.
Two suspects have been arrested in British Columbia in an investigation into widespread extortion of South Asian business figures, crimes that police and politicians say reach back to India.
RCMP in Surrey, B.C., say the suspects were arrested Thursday on arson and firearms allegations dating from late 2023 into 2024.
The outdoors beckoned on a recent Sunday in Nova Scotia’s Lunenburg County, where the weather was 25 degrees and sunny – a perfect spring day. So naturally, Stephanie Tanner’s six-year-old daughter wanted to go outside and play.
Emily spent just 30 minutes in the backyard, romping with the family’s chickens. When she came back inside, she was unknowingly harbouring a dozen parasitic hitchhikers; by the end of the day, her mother would pluck 12 ticks from Emily’s body, finding them everywhere from her groin to her hairline.
Mason Tanner, right, 8, who has been diagnosed with Lyme disease following a tick bite, walks with his mother Stephanie, centre, and sister Emily, 6, near their home in Mahone Bay, N.S. on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
Both Mason's mom and dad have contracted Lyme disease with his sister having 12 ticks picked off her body following an outing last weekend.
A swarming attack on a business owner in Oshawa, Ont., that police are investigating as a possible hate crime has shaken the victim’s family and the broader Muslim community, which has seen a rise in Islamophobic incidents, advocates said Thursday.
Amira Elghawaby, federal special representative on combatting Islamophobia, said the alleged suspects “violently” ripped off the woman’s hijab and kicked her repeatedly during the attack.
Nunavut’s health department declared an end to years-long tuberculosis outbreaks in two Baffin Island communities on Thursday.
Pangnirtung, a hamlet 45 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, had the largest outbreak of TB in the territory in at least seven years. The outbreak was declared in November, 2021, and resulted in 47 active TB cases and 225 latent or “sleeping” infections, which are asymptomatic and non-contagious.
The head of an organization representing automakers said he’s “cautiously optimistic” after meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney to urge him to repeal the electric vehicle sales mandate.
Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association CEO Brian Kingston joined the CEOs of Ford Canada, Stellantis Canada and GM Canada in a meeting with the Prime Minister on Wednesday in Ottawa.
Mounties say a out-of-control wildfire that has triggered evacuations near Lytton, B.C., was caused when a wheel fell off an RCMP trailer in a “tremendously unfortunate” incident.
Staff Sgt. Kris Clark said in a statement released Thursday that the “equipment failure” that sparked the Izman Creek fire, about 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, happened on Tuesday afternoon on Highway 12.
The Montreal mother who allegedly abandoned her daughter in a field in Ontario last month has been charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
The 34-year-old woman appeared in court this morning as part of her bail hearing at the courthouse in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., west of Montreal.
Eight years ago, at the peak of the #MeToo movement, it seemed, for a brief moment, like progress was imminent. Women from around the world were sharing their extensive – and oftentimes painful – experiences of sexual abuse and violence, and lawmakers and corporations alike were pledging to make change.
But in the years since, that progress has been stuttered. Harvey Weinstein, the film mogul whose case served as the rallying cry for the #MeToo movement, saw one of his convictions overturned. Donald Trump, who in 2023 was found liable for rape, was re-elected as President of the United States.
Vancouver-area home sales decreased 9.8 per cent in June but the city’s real estate board says that could signal a potential recovery after larger year-over-year declines in previous months.
Greater Vancouver Realtors said residential sales in the region totalled 2,181 last month, down from the 2,418 sales recorded in June 2024 and roughly 25 per cent below the 10-year seasonal average.
Toronto police say they have arrested a suspect in an alleged sexual assault of a 62-year-old woman last month in a west-end park.
Police say the woman was approached from behind while she was walking in High Park around 10:40 p.m. on June 4 and was dragged into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted.
They say the woman was able to get away from the suspect and had a passerby call police, and the man fled the area soon after.
The Toronto Police Services emblem is photographed during a press conference at TPS headquarters, in Toronto on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
It was August 1983 at the Hand Hills Lake Stampede and Les McIntyre had just fallen out of his chuckwagon.
As he remembers it, McIntyre had made a sharp turn, hit a competitor’s wagon and tumbled to the ground at no less than 40 kilometres an hour. When he hit the ground, another wagon following behind hit him, knocking McIntyre out cold and resulting in a career-ending back injury before the age of 30. He spent the next week in a Calgary hospital bed.
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