When a serial killer was convicted last year of murdering four First Nations women in Winnipeg, the family of one of his victims, Ashlee Shingoose, never got the chance to speak about the impact of his crimes because her identity wasn’t known then.

A Manitoba judge is giving them that opportunity Friday in a special hearing, where members of Ms. Shingoose’s family and community will provide statements for the first time in court.

The 300 or so year-round residents of Bamfield, B.C., are no strangers to power outages, often forced to go a day or so in the winter without electricity in their craggy hamlet on southwestern Vancouver Island.

But, on Thursday, many locals were on edge during their third day without power, as they sought out gas for generators to keep upward of a thousand tourists comfortable and hundreds of kilograms of salmon they had just caught from rotting.

A Canadian-led patrol of the North Pacific earlier this year uncovered dozens of alleged fisheries violations, including illegal shark finning and killing of dolphins.

Sean Wheeler, international enforcement chief for the Fisheries Department, said the two-month surveillance mission was the first to include crews from other countries, including the United States, Japan and South Korea, on a single vessel.

The growing number of Canadian citizens detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is disturbing and raises questions about whether Ottawa is doing enough to ensure the well-being of Canadians in custody, experts say, after revelations that Canadian children as young as two years old have been held for weeks in immigration detention this year.

The Globe and Mail on Thursday published extensive analysis of American enforcement data revealing that 149 Canadian citizens have been held at some point in ICE custody since January, when President Donald Trump took office and ordered an expansive immigration crackdown.

An evacuation order in the West Dalhousie area of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley was expanded late Thursday after a lightning strike ignited nearby woodlands the night before and triggered an intense, out-of-control wildfire.

The County of Annapolis expanded the area covered by an evacuation order that was first issued on Thursday morning and covered about 40 homes.

A judicial review of a proposed Alberta referendum question will go ahead after a judge ruled against an application to quash the review. The group behind the question says they aren't surprised by the ruling but think their question will survive scrutiny.

Playing golf in Canada never gets old for Mike Weir.

The Canadian Golf Hall of Famer will tee it up once again in Calgary in the Rogers Charity Classic at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club. It’s the fifth straight year that the 55-year-old golfer from Brights Grove, Ont., will play in front of enthusiastic fans from his home country at the three-day PGA Tour Champions event, which runs from Friday to Sunday.

The U.S. State Department is taking aim at Canada’s Online News Act in a human rights report that criticizes press freedom in Canada – which experts characterized Thursday as Orwellian.

The Online News Act, which requires Meta and Google to compensate news publishers for the use of their content, is cited in a section of the report covering freedom of the press.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has set his sights on Canada’s electric vehicle mandate, pledging Thursday that his party will embark on a national campaign to push the Liberal government to scrap the policy he’s dubbed the “Carney tax.”

Poilievre led the charge as the Conservatives relentlessly attacked the consumer carbon price over the last two years, with the Liberals admitting the Tory tactics swayed public opinion and forced them to end the so-called carbon tax earlier this year.

The wildfire that has triggered evacuation orders and alerts on south-central Vancouver Island measured more than 34 square kilometres on Thursday, about 58 per cent larger than what it was the day before.

The Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District’s emergency operations centre confirmed the growth of the fire, saying it was “in line with expectations.”

Wildfire officials in Saskatchewan have lifted a provincial fire ban because the weather has improved, while thousands from displaced communities in Manitoba have begun to return home.

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says the ban was lifted late Wednesday for all Crown lands north of the provincial forest boundary up to the Churchill River.

German soccer star Thomas Muller says he's far from retirement and remains focused on chasing titles as he joins the Vancouver Whitecaps. The 35-year-old attacking midfielder is the biggest signing in the Major League Soccer club's history. (Aug. 14, 2025)

More than two decades ago, when Lydia Bugden was a rising young lawyer in a Halifax legal firm, an older colleague offered a suggestion: It was time for her to meet Sir Graham Day.

Ms. Bugden was initially puzzled by this proposal. Inside her law firm, Stewart McKelvey, Sir Graham was this towering figure with a huge reputation – legendary corporate director, trusted adviser to Atlantic Canada’s business dynasties, and most famously, Margaret Thatcher’s favourite fixer, who in the 1980s engineered the privatization of British industrial megaliths in the shipbuilding and auto industries.

Health officials in Montreal are still working to tally the total number of people who died from heat-related causes since Sunday, when sweltering temperatures took over the city.

The city’s public health department has so far confirmed three reports of heat-related deaths since then, up from one earlier this week. The agency says it has also received reports of at least two cases of heat stroke.

After swimming with his family at Sandy Beach in the Ontario town of Buckhorn on the weekend, Patrick Porzuczek was driving north when the sky overhead began to rumble.

A plane was targeting a wildfire, named HAL019, near Burnt River in Kawartha Lakes, about two hours north of Toronto in Ontario’s cottage country.

Two of the late actor Joseph Ziegler’s biggest fans were the eminent theatre critic Robert Cushman and his wife, Arlene Gould. Mr. Cushman deemed Mr. Ziegler the kind of actor with so much depth and skill that he could elevate even a less-than-fabulous production. In a tribute, published on his website, Cushman Collected, Mr. Cushman writes of the time when he and Ms. Gould were watching just such a show – a “dismal” revival of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. When Mr. Ziegler exited the stage after his first brief scene, Mr. Cushman overheard his wife murmuring, “please come back.”

That was a sentiment shared by many theatregoers. Mr. Ziegler, who died on July 28 at the age of 71, was an endlessly watchable actor, whose deep reserves of humanity made him captivating in whatever role he played. They ran the gamut from the monumental part of Willy Loman, the tragically deluded anti-hero of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, to that of the blind, wheelchair-confined Hamm in Samuel Beckett’s bleak masterpiece Endgame. Mr. Ziegler could have you roaring with laughter at his gum-chewing prowess in the William Saroyan comedy The Time of Your Life, or quietly squeeze your heart as an all-too-real and pitiable miser in his inimitable take on Charles Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge.

Ontario public servants will be required to return to the office full time, with employees going in-person five days a week by January, 2026. Premier Doug Ford says he believes employees are more productive when they work in-person.

A Quebec court judge has overturned the majority of the sanctions against two Montreal police officers who were suspended for lying about their interactions with an inmate who died in custody in 2017.

Judge Alexandre Henri ruled that police watchdog investigators had not informed the officers of their right to remain silent when questioning them on the circumstances surrounding the death of David Tshiteya Kalubi.

A new survey from the Bank of Canada shows Canadians are keeping more cash in their wallets in an increasingly digital world.

The central bank says its 2024 survey on payment methods show Canadians kept an average of $156 in cash on hand, $16 more than in 2023.

Frustrated fire officials in Newfoundland and Labrador battling multiple blazes are also having to contend with online misinformation and people angry at government-imposed precautions.

The out-of-control fires, which have threatened the provincial capital this week and forced thousands from their homes, are among 214 wildfires in the province so far this season, a more than 100-per-cent increase over last year.

Simons has opened its first Toronto store at Yorkdale Mall, with a second location coming soon to the Eaton Centre.

Some claimants are now receiving compensation payments through a $23-billion settlement for more than 300,000 First Nations children and their families.

The settlement is meant to compensate children and their families for Canada’s chronic underfunding of on-reserve child welfare services.

A judicial review of a proposed Alberta separation referendum question will go ahead, after an application to quash the proceeding and have the question approved without scrutiny was denied.

Court of King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby said in his ruling Thursday that a judicial review and full hearing on the constitutionality of the question would benefit democracy.

Simons has opened its first Toronto store at Yorkdale Mall, with a second location coming soon to the Eaton Centre.

A demonstration by more than a dozen members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees prompted Air Canada to end a press conference early as tensions between the two sides continues to mount ahead of a weekend work stoppage.

The sternly worded statements and letters are filled with indignation and outrage: Republican U.S. lawmakers say Canada has done too little to contain wildfires and smoke that have fouled the air in several states this summer.

“Instead of enjoying family vacations at Michigan’s beautiful lakes and campgrounds, for the third summer in a row, Michiganders are forced to breathe hazardous air as a result of Canada’s failure to prevent and control wildfires,” read a statement last week from the state’s GOP congressional delegation, echoing similar missives from Republicans in Iowa, New York, North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The Ontario government is ordering public servants back to the office five days a week starting in 2026, one of the most aggressive moves by a public-sector employer in Canada to curb remote work since it became commonplace during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Oct. 20 of this year, workers who had previously attended the office for a minimum of three days a week will be required to attend four days. And starting Jan. 5, 2026, workers will be expected to be in the office full-time.

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Mac Bauer has been racing Toronto’s streetcar routes and sharing videos of himself on TikTok.

Rogers Communications Inc. RCI-B-T has signed a deal to sell its portfolio of nine data centres to InfraRed Capital Partners.

Financial terms of the sale were not immediately available.

Officials in Newfoundland and Labrador extended an evacuation alert Thursday evening, asking residents of a small coastal community to be ready to flee a wildfire that may have already destroyed up to 100 homes and structures.

As a precaution, the province asked residents of Job’s Cove, on Newfoundland’s Bay de Verde Peninsula, to be prepared to leave as a wildfire measuring more than 80 square kilometres roared nearby. The fire near Kingston, N.L., is the largest in the province and has forced about 3,000 others in the area out of their homes.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board says it earned a net return of one per cent for its first quarter.

CPP Investments chief executive John Graham says shifting trade dynamics and broader geopolitical uncertainty fuelled renewed volatility in global markets during the quarter.

At least two Canadian toddlers have been held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, including one who was detained for 51 days, more than double the legal detention period for migrant children in the United States, a Globe and Mail analysis of American enforcement data show.

The children, who are under the age of four, were both detained at a remote Texas facility that has been the subject of a legal complaint alleging inadequate access to safe drinking water, medical care and legal assistance. At the time of detention, they appear to have been accompanied by adults who were also apprehended.

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Hydro One Ltd H-T, says chief executive David Lebeter will take a temporary compassionate care leave, effective Aug. 25, to care for a family member.

The power utility says Lebeter will be available to the company on an advisory basis until his return.

A year ago, Mac Bauer and his wife, Jungmin Chang, boarded a streetcar in Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood to visit a friend in High Park.

The journey from east to west took more than an hour and felt sluggish to the two runners.

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Former Richmond, B.C., city councillor Harold Steves’ family has been farming in the area since 1877, lending their name to the community of Steveston.

The 88-year-old former politician only retired from council three years ago, and few can match his knowledge of the controversies surrounding Richmond’s farmland – the creation of the province’s agricultural land reserve, influxes of foreign-money investors, a spate of mega-mansion construction and now the Cowichan Nation’s Aboriginal title claim.

Good morning. Flight delays, labour disputes and a Trump slump have made the travel season a game of chance – more on that below, along with Newfoundland’s dangerously dry summer and the chances for a Bank of Canada rate cut. But first:

Today’s headlines

• Nearly 150 Canadians held in ICE custody this year, including two toddlers, data show
• In war-weary Kyiv, Ukrainians view the Trump-Putin summit with skepticism
• Thousands in St. John’s are under an evacuation alert as wildfires threaten urban centres
• Non-profits accuse Israel of ‘weaponizing’ aid as its forces step up their Gaza City bombardment

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An 18-year-old who faces charges in a crash that killed a father of three had no restrictions on his drivers’ licence after a collision involving Premier Doug Ford earlier this year, the Ontario Provincial Police confirmed.

Now, a member of the victim’s family wants to see legislative change to prevent people accused of dangerous driving from being on the road.

Jaiwin Kirubananthan, of Oshawa, was arrested in connection with a head-on collision on Aug. 3 that killed 35-year-old Andrew Cristillo of Mount Albert, Ont., and injured his wife and three daughters. He was charged with dangerous driving causing death, three counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, failing to remain at an accident resulting in death and public mischief. The crash happened in Whitchurch-Stouffville, northeast of Toronto.

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Canadian auto parts companies say the current North American trade agreement is helping them manage headwinds from south of the border, even as tariff disruptions intensified over the past months.

With recent earnings reports from Martinrea International Inc. MRE-T and Linamar Corp. LNR-T, both firms highlighted compliance with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement as a source of shelter from the harsh tariffs imposed by the United States.

With its frequent fog, rainstorms and snow squalls barrelling in from the Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland and Labrador has long been known as a place with unpredictable weather. But until recently, dangerously hot and dry summers weren’t something people had to worry about.

As unprecedented wildfires chase thousands from their homes in the eastern part of the province, Newfoundlanders are concerned that their usually damp island is entering new territory.

A motivated herd of lean biting machines is back on duty and cleaning up an overgrown park in northwest Calgary. About 800 goats are grazing the 58 hectares, gnawing on excess vegetation and reducing the risk of fire and promoting biodiversity.

Two nine-month-old Scottish Highland bulls are making their debut at the Toronto Zoo. The zoo's manager of wildlife care says the brothers were born and raised at a local Ontario farm before moving there.

Conservative MPs are calling for a parliamentary investigation into Spanish drugmaker Grifols’s GIFOF use of Canadian-donated blood plasma to make medicines for sale abroad.

The call follows a Globe and Mail investigation that found Canadian Blood Services is selling some blood components to Grifols to manufacture a product called albumin, as part of a complex arrangement between the international pharmaceutical company and the Canadian charity to collect and process blood plasma.

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says the federal government needs to do more to fight Canada’s devastating forest fires.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday in Ottawa, the Alberta MP accused Ottawa of “inaction” on wildfires. She also blamed that lack of action for new measures restricting activities in the forests of two provinces — even though those bans were imposed by the provinces themselves.

A raging wildfire that has forced evacuations on south-central Vancouver Island has been burning at some of most severe levels of fire behaviour, a display that is “unusual” for the region, the British Columbia officials said Wednesday.

Karley Desrosiers, an information officer with the service, said there was “aggressive” growth on the fire within a couple hours of its discovery on Monday.

John Miszuk, a refugee from war-torn Europe who only learned to skate at age 12, overcame a late start to forge an 18-season career in professional hockey.

A dependable, stay-at-home defenceman, Mr. Miszuk (pronounced MISH-ook) gained a reputation for delivering punishing bodychecks, including once knocking out an opponent with a clean hit during a playoff game.

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American pop star Chappell Roan is known to many as the “Midwest Princess” and now is promising to travel a touch north to the land of the living skies.

Roan has created a buzz in Saskatchewan with the release of The Subway, her new song about post-breakup frustration, where she name-drops Saskatchewan.

A Montreal man charged with assaulting a Jewish father at a park last week will be sent to a psychiatric hospital for a 30-day evaluation to determine criminal responsibility.

Sergio Yanes Preciado appeared before a Quebec court judge on Wednesday afternoon after meeting with a criminologist for an evaluation earlier in the day.

Yanes Preciado, 23, was charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm in an attack on a 32-year-old Jewish father of three at a Montreal park last Friday afternoon.

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The federal government announced $25-million in funding today for companies to build more than 850 electric vehicle chargers, mostly in Quebec.

The money will also help companies finance the purchases of natural gas-powered transport and recycling trucks to help companies lower emissions.

During a podcast on Apple Music, American pop star Chappell Roan spoke about her latest single, "The Subway," and its Saskatchewan name-drop. She also promised to perform in Saskatchewan, saying it's time the province got its recognition globally. (Aug. 13, 2025)

Thousands of people in St. John’s have been told to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice, as rapidly deteriorating wildfires in Newfoundland and Labrador threaten urban centres.

Crews in the province’s capital are employing water bombers to slow the growth of raging flames near the Trans-Canada Highway, but the fire remained out of control late Wednesday, with at least 20,000 residents facing possible evacuations.

Toronto’s beloved annual fair is touting a lineup of fresh, fried and funky foods ahead of the kickoff of its 146th year in the city.

The Canadian National Exhibition is set to open its gates at the Exhibition Place on Friday, with carnival games, rides, performances and sweet treats on full display.

Farmer Bill Prybylski says China’s planned tariff on canola seed wasn’t factored into his business equations this year.

The president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan says the 75.8 per cent preliminary duty, announced Tuesday, has already caused canola prices to fall by $1 per bushel.

Five-year survival rates for people with lung cancer have doubled since the 1990s, but the disease still kills more patients than any other type of cancer, a Statistics Canada report said on Wednesday.

The report said the number of people living five years after they were diagnosed jumped from 13 per cent to 27 per cent between 1992 and 2021.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it will hold two days of talks with Canada Post.

The union, which represents about 55,000 postal workers, says both sides met with federal mediators on Tuesday and it has agreed to meet with Canada Post on Friday and Monday.

A wildfire on the western outskirts of Halifax that had prompted evacuations is now being held, Nova Scotia officials say. 

But the update, posted at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, said firefighters would remain overnight at the scene of the fire near Susies Lake, which is about 10 kilometres west of downtown Halifax.

A B.C. billionaire who wants to buy some Hudson’s Bay leases says landlord claims that she won’t be able to run a successful business in their spaces are “misguided.”

In new court documents filed overnight Wednesday, Ruby Liu says she is prepared to do what is necessary to make her venture successful and if it makes landlords more confident in her plan, will personally guarantee the first year of rent she’ll have to pay them.

Consumers are still seeking local products, but executives at one of Canada’s biggest grocers say the buy Canadian movement is starting to lose some steam.

“It’s decelerating somewhat,” Metro Inc. MRU-T chief executive Eric La Flèche told analysts during a third-quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday.

A former top general who led the military during the Afghanistan conflict is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to revisit the files of soldiers who served there to see if any of their awards should be upgraded to the Victoria Cross.

Rick Hillier said that despite the failure of recent attempts to trigger such an independent review, he thinks the odds are better now that Ottawa is bent on revitalizing the Canadian Armed Forces.

Evacuees who fled a roaring wildfire near Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest city received a special donation Wednesday from a young musician.

Ten-year-old accordion player Zander Wright raised $121 while busking Tuesday outside a local convenience store south of St. John’s, the same day some residents of nearby Paradise, N.L., were told to evacuate their homes and businesses.

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News publishers say the AI-generated summaries that now top many Google search results are cutting into their online traffic – and experts are still flagging concerns about the summaries’ accuracy as they warn the internet itself is being reshaped.

When Google rolled out its AI Overview feature last year, its mistakes – including one suggestion to use glue to make pizza toppings stick better – made headlines. One expert warns concerns about the accuracy of the feature’s output won’t necessarily go away as the technology improves.

Extreme heat is expected to ease in many parts of Canada today, while the Atlantic provinces continue to bear the brunt of a multi-day heat wave.

Relief is expected in southern and eastern Ontario, but Environment Canada says temperatures are still above average for this time of year, with forecasted highs in the low 30s.

Good morning. China is pulling out all the stops to control the spread of the chikungunya virus – more on that below, along with Europe’s record-breaking heat and Taylor Swift’s new album. But first:

Today’s headlines

• Air Canada flight attendants could be on strike as soon as Saturday after serving notice
• Ottawa wants certainty from China before making concessions on canola tariffs, the Agriculture Minister says
• As Trump takes over Washington, the city watches for potential fallout

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Air Canada AC-T says it will begin a gradual suspension of flights to allow an orderly shutdown as it faces a potential work stoppage by its flight attendants on Saturday.

The airline says the first flights will be cancelled Thursday, with more on Friday and a complete cessation of flying by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge by the weekend.

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are facing opposition and threats of legal action after ordering residents to stay out of wooded areas and threatening hefty fines in an effort to prevent wildfires.

Both provinces banned hiking, camping, fishing and vehicle use in wooded areas, with violators in Nova Scotia facing fines of up to $25,000.

The Quebec government says legal opponents challenging its secularism law at the Supreme Court of Canada are merely rehashing old, failed arguments in an effort to overturn established legal precedent.

On Tuesday, Quebec filed 100 pages of legal arguments to the Supreme Court ahead of a hearing in which it will defend Bill 21 in court for a third time. The province won two previous decisions in the lower courts in Quebec, which led to the current appeal at the Supreme Court.

Officials have asked thousands of people in and around Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest city to be ready to flee a roaring wildfire at a moment’s notice. Sharlene Johnson, who lives in Conception Bay South near St. John’s, says the situation is terrifying.

Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Tessa Thompson are among the stars set to take part in the Toronto International Film Festival’s In Conversation With… series next month.

The lineup also includes filmmakers Park Chan-wook and Nia DaCosta, who will join the others in candid talks about their careers and craft.

When Hilary Weston was appointed lieutenant-governor of Ontario in late 1996, the press reaction was almost uniformly negative and at times vicious. “Prime Minister Jean Chrétien couldn’t have made a more inappropriate choice for the position,” Richard Brennan wrote in The Toronto Star, calling the wealthy former model “our version of a society debutante.”

The late columnist Allan Fotheringham called Mrs. Weston the “wife of a billionaire,” whose “only politics is Chanel,” predicting with biting sarcasm that she would quickly tire of handing out mine safety certificates in Sudbury, one of the duties he imagined she would be burdened with.

Finding the next Summer McIntosh and keeping Canadians safe in the water is getting harder as pool closures spread across the country.

Municipalities and universities strapped for cash, and neglecting upkeep on aging pools, now face hefty renovation or rebuild costs – or closure.

An 18-year-old man from Oshawa, Ont., who was recently charged in a collision that killed a father of three is the same person facing a dangerous driving charge in a crash involving Premier Doug Ford, Ontario Provincial Police say.

A GoFundMe page by Christina Cristillo identifies her husband Andrew Cristillo as the victim of the fatal crash on Aug. 3 in Whitchurch-Stouffville, which also left her and their three daughters injured.

“He was an amazing, hands-on dad to our girls, always playing with them, teaching them, and making them laugh until their cheeks hurt,” she wrote.

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At the entrance of a London hospital, Krystyna Locke fronts a banner with loopy cursive letters that says, “Happy birthday to me. Your parking is free.”

The lymphoma cancer survivor is celebrating turning 63 by paying the parking fees for cancer patients. She knows just how quickly those bills add up after 20 years of hospital visits to London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ont.

Just five months after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Spirit Airlines SAVE-N is warning about its future ability to stay in business.

Spirit Aviation Holdings, the budget carrier’s parent company, says it has “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern over the next year – which is accounting-speak for running out of money. In a quarterly report issued Monday, Spirit pointed to “adverse market conditions” that it’s continued to face after a recent restructuring and other efforts to revive its business.

An East Coast drought that’s fuelling wildfires is also drying up farmers’ fields, and has homeowners scrambling to refill empty wells.

Nova Scotia, eastern Newfoundland, southeastern New Brunswick and portions of Prince Edward Island shifted into moderate to severe drought conditions over the past month, says an Agriculture Canada update released Tuesday.

A 23-year-old man has been charged in the assault of a Jewish father at a Montreal park last week.

The incident, captured on a 28-second video shared widely online, drew swift condemnation including from Prime Minister Mark Carney and Quebec Premier François Legault.

Sergio Yanes Preciado is facing a charge of assault causing bodily harm, and he appeared briefly on Tuesday before a Quebec court judge from a detention centre in Montreal’s north end.

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The Newfoundland and Labrador government has asked roughly 13,000 people near St. John’s, N.L., to prepare to flee a nearby wildfire.

Residents near Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest city were ordered to flee a wildfire Tuesday, as thousands of other people across the province faced the prospect of leaving or losing their homes to flames.

Officials ordered evacuations in some parts of Paradise, a suburb of the capital St. John’s. The news came barely an hour after Premier John Hogan said a fire had ignited in Spaniard’s Bay, N.L., adding to a seemingly relentless series of wildfires erupting amid a spate of dry, sweltering heat.

A court will hear Cineplex Inc.’s CGX-T appeal of a record $38.9-million fine it is facing for deceptive marketing practices this fall.

The theatre operator revealed Tuesday that the matter is scheduled to go before the Federal Court of Appeal on Oct. 8.

Sweltering heat is expected to break in the coming days for many Canadians after Monday’s scorching temperatures broke dozens of daily heat records across the country.

Around 51 daily heat records were broken across the country on Monday with many regions recording temperatures in the mid-30s, said Christy Climenhaga, a scientist with Environment Canada.

The union representing around 10,000 Air Canada AC-T flight attendants says it has declined a proposal from the airline to enter a binding arbitration process.

The latest hurdle in negotiations comes just hours before the Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees could signal its intent to strike this weekend.

Good morning. One family has become an example of how those trying to claim asylum in Canada face a very different reality than one year ago, thanks to the sweeping immigration crackdown in the U.S. More on that below, plus a landmark ruling (and appeal) for Indigenous land claims and how to prepare for this week’s meteor shower. But first:

Today’s headlines

• In a Gaza refugee camp, freelance journalist Hasan Jaber speaks with Palestinians about Israel’s plans to re-occupy the strip
• Some medicines made from Canadian-donated blood plasma are being sold abroad
• The notwithstanding clause does not automatically shield governments from judicial review, according to a ruling from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal

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The rapidly growing wildfire on Vancouver Island near Port Alberni, B.C., has reached 13.9 square kilometres in size, almost triple what was reported when the fire was first reported late Monday.

The Mount Underwood wildfire is now classified as a fire-of-note and has cut off the main road access to a community 90 kilometres southwest of Port Alberni in addition to forcing an evacuation of a local campground.

Major institutional investors are asking the federal government to give them a reason to invest more at home in the upcoming fall budget, says the Liberal MPs leading budget consultations across Canada.

The federal Liberals are in the midst of consultations on the upcoming 2025 budget. While federal budgets typically are tabled in the spring, this one is set to land during the fall session of Parliament.

Diana MacKay remembers accompanying her dad, Dr. Ken Walker, on his rounds at Niagara General Hospital when she was six, her little legs having to run to keep up with him as he dipped in and out of patient rooms.

She waited outside or with the nurses at their station while he did his work. It was in these moments that his colleagues would tell her how much they had learned from her father, how he was making the world a better place.

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The Parti Québécois sailed to a third-straight Quebec by-election win on Monday, cementing the sovereigntist party’s momentum ahead of the 2026 provincial election and dealing a crushing blow to Premier François Legault’s governing party.

Former journalist Alex Boissonneault handily defeated Quebec Conservative Leader Éric Duhaime in the Arthabaska riding, flipping a seat that Legault’s Coalition Avenir Quebec has held since 2012.

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B.C. is appealing the landmark decision of its Supreme Court that granted a group of First Nations on Vancouver Island title to riverside land in the mainland suburb of Richmond, saying the judgment raises questions about private-property rights.

Attorney-General Niki Sharma announced the appeal at a news conference Monday, saying the Cowichan Tribes v. Canada judgment must be reconsidered by a higher court because it could have significant, unintended consequences on the province’s system of real estate ownership, known as fee-simple title.

Christine McNeil has spent the past several days helping feed the crews responding to an out-of-control wildfire in Newfoundland and Labrador that is just seven kilometres away from her restaurant.

She and her three employees at The Mess Tent Poutinerie, located in the small community of Lower Island Cove on the Bay de Verde Peninsula, sprung into action to help feed firefighters, many of whom are volunteers who have put their day jobs on hold. Ms. McNeil said her previous job as a supply tech in the military prepared her for the work she’s been doing over the past week.

The former CEO of Alberta’s health authority is asking a court to throw out a defamation lawsuit launched against her by Premier Danielle Smith’s ex-chief of staff, arguing that allegations she has made about political interference in procurement are protected by legal privilege and were in the public interest.

Marshall Smith, the Premier’s former aide, is suing Alberta Health Services’ onetime head Athana Mentzelopoulos for claims she made in her own lawsuit against the Alberta government, saying she has “mischaracterized, cherry-picked, and taken out of context” portions of their discussions to suggest that he improperly pressed her to benefit certain private companies.

The B.C. Supreme Court has invalidated a bylaw passed by the City of Vancouver that imposed a fee on ride-hailing companies working on city streets during peak hours.

Uber Canada took the city to court over the bylaw, claiming it overstepped a municipal government’s power to regulate so-called “transportation network services.”

A panel of three Ontario Court of Appeal judges unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system in a ruling released on Monday.

The system, laid out in the Canada Elections Act, sees the candidate who receives the most votes in a given riding or electoral district become the member of Parliament.

Montreal police say they have arrested a 24-year-old suspect in connection with an alleged assault on a Jewish father in a park on Friday.

They say the suspect was arrested Monday and was being met by investigators.

Police say the alleged assault happened Friday afternoon when the 32-year-old father was with his young children at a splash pad in a park in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough.

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The RCMP is introducing a drone corridor along part of the Canada-U.S. border in an effort to boost security.

Drones are to patrol the border in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in what the RCMP says is a trial.

British Columbia’s government will appeal a landmark Aboriginal title ruling that grants a claim by the Cowichan Nation over land on the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver, the attorney-general said.

Niki Sharma said Monday that the government strongly disagrees with last week’s B.C. Supreme Court decision granting fishing rights and Aboriginal title over the parcel of land on Lulu Island in Richmond, B.C.

Organizers are looking for volunteers to help staff the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

With 48 teams and 104 games across 16 venues in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. at the expanded soccer showcase, plenty of hands are needed. Organizers expect to use some 65,000 volunteers, including 6,000 in Canada, making the 2026 competition FIFA’s largest-ever volunteer program.

The Ottawa Senators are one step closer to having a new arena in the city’s downtown core.

The Senators and the National Capital Commission have agreed on the sale of 4.5 hectares (11 acres) of land at LeBreton Flats for the project.

Love is apparently in the air for Hank, a miniature donkey from Erin, Ont., whose dating profile has gained considerable traction online.

The seven-year-old jack resides at Erin Hill Acres, a family-owned and operated tourism farm located an hour west of Toronto.

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Air Canada AC-T flight attendants gathered for simultaneous demonstrations outside airports in some major Canadian cities Monday as the clock ticked down toward a possible strike that could begin as soon as this weekend.

In what their union called a national day of action, members of the Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees planned pickets at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International Airport and Calgary International Airport.

Hank, a seven-year-old jack, lives at Erin Hill Acres, a family-owned and operated tourism farm in Erin, Ont. His owners are now on the search to find him a soulmate to live out his days in the flower fields.

Hundreds of residents who were forced out by a wildfire burning near Cameron Lake on Vancouver Island are being allowed to return home.

The Regional District of Nanaimo has posted an update removing 257 properties from its evacuation order, although residents remain on alert and must be ready to leave right away.

Ontario’s highest court has upheld a ruling that found Ukraine International Airlines legally responsible to pay full compensation to families of victims who died in the downing of Flight PS752. 

On Jan. 8, 2020, the plane was shot down by two Iranian missiles just minutes after taking off from Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.

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