Toronto has spent more than half the summer so far under heat warnings, according to data from Environment Canada, which show the area has already surpassed the number of extremely hot days in each of the past two years.
Environment Canada meteorologist Steven Flisfeder said the city has been under a heat warning for 21 days so far this summer, with the fifth such warning issued on Monday.
U.S. President Donald Trump is asking a federal court in Florida to force Rupert Murdoch to give a deposition for the President's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal within 15 days, citing the media mogul's age and physical condition.
In an extensive interview with The Canadian Press, Ottawa’s envoy for combating Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby, says Canadian Muslims feel a sense of inaction from Ottawa around Israel's restrictions on aid and mass killings of Palestinians.
A Canada Border Services officer looks over at a truck as it waits to be inspected at the Highway 55 Port of Entry in Stanstead, Que., Thursday, March 13, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
A new study shows more women opted for long-acting birth control methods after British Columbia began covering the cost, which researchers say is strong reason for Ottawa’s pharmacare plan to do the same.
The study found prescriptions for all types of birth control jumped significantly after the province began covering contraceptives in April, 2023, with a 49-per-cent jump in prescriptions for intrauterine devices (IUDs) driving the increase.
While Canada is not joining France in recognizing a Palestinian state, it is funding the Palestinian Authority’s preparations to lead a globally recognized country that includes Gaza and the West Bank.
Ottawa is also adding $30-million to its humanitarian funding for desperate Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“The Palestinian question is at the heart of any hope for long-term stability in the Middle East,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told a major United Nations conference Monday in New York.
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand speaks during a High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., July 28, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Voters in next month’s Alberta by-election, in which Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is looking to win back a seat in Parliament, will use write-in ballots after a record number of candidates put their names forward in the race, according to Elections Canada.
The ballots won’t have the names of the more than 200 people running in the contest, Elections Canada said Monday. Instead, voters will be given a single page where they can write in the name of their chosen candidate.
Leylah Fernandez is riding momentum into her hometown tournament. The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., enters the National Bank Open in Montreal after winning the D.C. Open for her fourth WTA title, and the biggest of her career.
Police say 11 people face charges after an investigation into drug trafficking in Mississauga that allegedly involved exchanging stolen baby formula and other products for drugs.
Peel Regional Police say the four-month investigation, dubbed Project Bengal, revealed an organized crime group responsible for trafficking of drugs and thefts from retail businesses in the city’s Meadowvale area.
Investigators say suspects were allegedly stealing high-demand baby products, including formula and vitamins, to exchange them for drugs.
Ottawa’s envoy for combating Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby, says Canadian Muslims feel a sense of inaction around Israel's restrictions on aid and mass killings of Palestinians.
Ottawa’s approach to the war in Gaza is eroding many Muslim-Canadians’ “sense of belonging” in this country, says the federal special representative on combating Islamophobia.
“This ongoing, horrifying situation is deeply, deeply damaging the sense of belonging that people feel,” Amira Elghawaby said in a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press.
Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s special representative on combating Islamophobia, prepares to appear as a witness before the Senate Human Rights committee at the Senate of Canada Building in Ottawa on Monday, March 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
After years of car owners sounding the alarm about rising auto theft rates in Canada, an industry group tracking the issue says those trends are shifting in reverse, with the biggest drops coming from Ontario and Quebec.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has walked back last week's pledge to issue work permits to asylum seekers. Mr. Ford and the rest of the country's premiers said last week they wanted more control over immigration, usually a purview of the federal government. The Ontario Premier vowed to issue work permits to asylum seekers after he and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith believed they found a workaround in the Constitution.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper said Monday he’s urging Ottawa to find new trading partners outside the United States.
“I think it’s fair to say I’m probably the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history,” Harper told Canadian and American legislators gathered for the annual Midwestern Legislative Conference meeting in Saskatoon.
“We’ve got to get something short-term worked out with the Trump administration. But this really is a wake-up call for this country to truly diversify its trade export markets.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper speaks ahead of the King delivering speech from the throne in the Senate in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Blair Gable-Pool
A potential referendum question on Alberta separating from Canada has been referred to a judge for confirmation that the question doesn’t violate the Constitution.
The proposed question seeks a yes or no answer to: “Do you agree that the Province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province in Canada?”
Alberta’s chief electoral officer Gordon McClure, in a news release Monday, said provincial laws require potential referendum questions to respect more than 30 sections of the Constitution, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
An Alberta flag flaps in the breeze with Mt. Kidd in the background at the site of the G7 Leaders meeting in Kananaskis, Alta., Monday, June 2, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Air Canada AC-T flight attendants start voting today on whether to give a strike mandate to their union.
The vote, running through to Aug. 5, comes after the Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees concluded the conciliation process with no deal reached.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is retracting a vow he made last week to have his province issue its own work permits to asylum seekers in the face of what he said were federal government delays that have left refugee applicants in limbo for two years.
Last Wednesday, Mr. Ford had told reporters after a conference with his fellow premiers that his province would step into the federal government’s purview and issue its own work permits to ensure that refugee applicants could enter the labour force more quickly. But on Monday, he called a press conference and reversed himself.
Lauren McGuire, a recent Grade 12 graduate from Oakville, Ont., had her sights set on applying to a university program in health sciences, a competitive stream that’s often a stepping stone to medical school.
She had top marks and impressive extracurriculars, but she still knew it would be a tall order to get one of the most sought-after spots in Canada.
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Before he was known as the “One-Man Jukebox,” a summer of tree-planting made Ron Sexsmith a songwriter.
The pace of auto theft is dropping in Canada thanks to collective efforts to crack down on thieves, says an industry group focused on insurance fraud and crime.
Équité Association said in a report released Monday that the number of vehicles reported stolen nationally dropped 19.1 per cent in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
Good morning. The United States struck a trade deal with the European Union, as Canadians look ahead to the Aug. 1 deadline set for our own tariff agreement. More on that below, plus updates from Gaza and the rescue from a B.C. mine collapse. Let’s get to it.
In the summer of 1991, Janice Randhile was coerced by her boyfriend into the sex trade on the streets of Ottawa when she was just 17 years old.
“We had been dating, we were in a relationship, and then he said, ‘I want you to go to work,’” Ms. Randhile, a member of Alberta’s Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, recalled in an interview. “I was like, ‘What?’ I wasn’t homeless, but I didn’t want to go home. So I did it.”
At the time, Ms. Randhile was living with her boyfriend in a rooming house, grappling with fear of abandonment and struggling to find her identity. She is among the Indigenous children who were apprehended from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes as part of the notorious Sixties Scoop.
Ms. Randhile says that in her experience working with Indigenous families, she believes the connection between missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and sex trafficking is real and deserves attention.
After two-and-a-half days locked in a northern B.C. mine, separated from the surface by a mound of rockfall, three drillers waved to their families from across the tarmac at Smithers Airport.
It was an emotional embrace for some on Friday afternoon, a more muted greeting for others. Harvey Tremblay, watching his employees reconnect with their families, felt a unique relief.
Some sexual-assaultsurvivors and legal experts say that restorative justice could be an alternative for complainantsto find closure and accountability, in the wake of the Hockey Canada verdict that left many advocates reeling.
Justice Maria Carroccia acquitted five former junior hockey players of sexual assault on Thursday after a trial that had the complainant, known publicly as E.M., spend seven days under cross-examination by the defendants’ lawyers.
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