Much of Ontario and southwestern Quebec will continue to bake in high temperatures Monday and Tuesday as a heat dome lingers over the region.
Environment Canada issued a heat warning for the area on Saturday, saying hot and humid conditions will likely continue until Wednesday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump ordered military strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran on the weekend, inserting the country into the war between Israel and Iran and raising fears the attacks could lead to an escalation across the Middle East. Our full coverage is below, along with other key stories of the week.
For years, astronomers involved with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have said that their purpose is nothing less than creating the greatest cosmic movie ever made.
Now, more than a decade after construction of the observatory began on a Chilean mountaintop, the first test frames of that movie are in.
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For traditional sports fans, the Valorant Masters Toronto e-sports tournament could be a culture shock.
At Sunday’s final, there was no field, rink or court. Instead, at game time, two groups of mostly 20-somethings sat behind computer monitors at a long desk atop a platform, trying to virtually eliminate their opponents as fans watched on a jumbotron above. Occasionally, strobe lights punctuated big moments.
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Blame the heat dome hanging over Ontario and Quebec for some of the strange weather hitting other parts of the country.
Environment Canada meteorologist Julien Pellerin says scorching temperatures over the eastern part of the continent are causing below-normal temperatures in other regions, which have led to warnings of wet snow and heavy rain in the West.
Halifax officials say some people who had to flee a forest fire on Sunday afternoon were being allowed back home, with provincial officials noting rain was falling and the blaze was being held.
RCMP began helping evacuate people earlier in the day after issuing a statement about a forest fire in Musquodoboit Harbour, about 45 kilometres east of downtown Halifax, and police also asked other residents to avoid the area.
Later, the Halifax Regional Municipality said some of the evacuees would be permitted to return home, while an evacuation centre would be opening for those not being allowed back.
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The court-appointed receiver of a Yukon gold mine that suffered a catastrophic heap-leach facility failure last year said it plans to sell the mine and will be seeking approval within the week to start the process.
In its fifth receiver’s report issued earlier this month, PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. said it will seek court approval for a sale process for the Eagle Gold Mine near Mayo, Yukon, in a motion scheduled to be heard Wednesday in an Ontario court.
Recently some of the 100 or so members of a group chat shared their plans to travel to Ireland for a 40th-anniversary memorial service on Monday for the 329 people killed on Air India Flight 182, most of them Canadian.
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Firefighters in Yukon say the wildfire that has put about 100 homes on evacuation alert near Dawson has grown rapidly due to recent weather conditions, more than doubling its size reported a day ago.
An update from the territory’s Emergency Coordination Centre says the Quebec Creek fire is now measured at 34 square kilometres based on satellite data, up from the 15 square kilometres figure reported Saturday.
A Quebec man has been found guilty of three counts of 1st degree murder in the deaths of three men he struck with his truck.
Steeve Gagnon learned his fate following two days of deliberation by the jury, who found him guilty on all counts.
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.
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Police west of Toronto say a man from Mississauga, Ont., has been charged with sexually assaulting “multiple” girls under the age of 16.
Peel Regional Police say the 28-year-old suspect is accused of communicating with the victims over social media using the screen name “-PoloPapi-.”
They allege he “engaged in sexual relations” with them, with the incidents taking place between last September and this month.
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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.
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.
In a brief announcement on Friday, the government said it would be seeking feedback from stakeholders “later in 2025.”
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.
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.
Algoma Steel Group Inc. ASTL-T chief executive Michael Garcia says the federal government’s new quotas around imports of steel fall far short of what is needed during a vicious trade war with the United States.
Prime Minister Mark Carney in a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday announced that Canada is limiting imports of foreign steel from countries that don’t have free trade agreements to 2024 levels. If the group of countries, which includes major steel producers such as China, India and Turkey, ships above that quota, 50-per-cent tariffs will take effect.
Canada’s retail sales were up in April on a monthly basis but were below estimates, data showed on Friday, as the momentum seen in the previous months when customers advanced purchases to beat the impact of tariffs continued.
Retail sales in April grew by 0.3 per cent to $70.11 billion from 0.8 per cent observed in the month earlier, Statistics Canada said, adding sales grew in six of the nine subsectors.
Good morning. After a heavy week of news, we offer some ideas to lighten up your summer. More on that below, plus how Ottawa is causing a stir about the digital sales tax and why Canada’s national housing agency is moving a benchmark. But first:
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Victor Fedeli, Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development, is following the money, and the money is gushing into defence.
Defence spending in the Western world is set to climb fast. Even Canada, a perennial laggard on the weapons front, is getting into the game. At the NATO summit in The Hague, which starts Tuesday, the 32 member states will be asked to commit 5 per cent of their GDP to defence, up from the alliance’s decade-old spending target of 2 per cent – a target Canada and seven other countries have never met.
Mike Pemberton has been named the new leader of the Yukon Liberal Party and will be the territory’s 11th Premier.
A local businessman and longtime party insider, Pemberton won the leadership race by 13 votes over former Kwanlin Dun First Nation Chief Doris Bill.
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Residents of Flin Flon will be able to start coming home next week as officials in the northwestern Manitoba city lift its mandatory evacuation order.
A social media post from the city says the order is expected to be lifted at 9 a.m. on June 25, exactly one month after the city’s 5,000 residents were forced out by a massive wildfire.
Eight months after receiving a complaint that a group of former world junior hockey players sexually assaulted a woman in a downtown hotel, London police detective Stephen Newton had reached the end of his investigation.
In a phone call with E.M., as the complainant is known because of a publication ban on her name, he told her he didn’t have enough evidence to continue his probe.
The Quebec government is scaling back its projections for greenhouse gas emissions reductions due to the Trump administration.
A report published Thursday by the province’s Environment Department says the current U.S. government has created a “challenging environment for advancing climate action.”
The judge presiding over the trial of two men facing criminal fraud charges stemming from the $300-million redevelopment of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital says the bidding process was “tainted.”
Vas Georgiou, former chief administrative officer of St. Michael’s, and John Aquino, the former president of Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd., are each charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000. Both men have pleaded not guilty.
The City of Victoria has endorsed a community safety and well-being plan aimed at tackling the complex and “entangled challenges” of homelessness, addiction and mental illness playing out on city streets.
The report contains dozens of recommendations aimed at all levels of government across eight sectors, including housing, health care, service delivery, and policing and justice.
A rock slide killed at least one person and injured others on a popular hiking trail in the Canadian Rocky Mountains on Thursday, according to authorities.
The RCMP and Parks Canada, in a joint statement Thursday evening, confirmed one person was found dead at the scene of the slide, near Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park. Two people were airlifted to hospital and another was transported by ground ambulance, the statement said.
RCMP and parks officials say hikers have been caught up in a rock slide in Banff National Park.
The nature and number of injuries have not been determined. The disaster occurred in a remote area with limited cell service.
British Columbia’s chief coroner is taking the unusual step of not calling an inquest into the death of Lisa Rauch, who died after being hit by two plastic bullets fired by a Victoria police officer.
While an inquest is mandatory after deaths in police custody, Coroner Dr. Jatinder Baidwan said in a statement that Rauch wasn’t considered in custody at the time of her death.
Ron Taylor’s major-league debut as a pitcher was so spectacular as to make the record books, even though he lost the game.
The right-hander went on to win World Series championships with two different teams, the only Canadian ever to have done so.
Two of the three most significant wildfires in British Columbia have been downgraded and are no longer considered fires of note.
They include the 263-square-kilometre Kiskatinaw River wildfire in northeastern B.C., which was deemed on Wednesday to be no longer out of control.
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