U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the U.S. would impose a 35% tariff on imports from Canada next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trade partners.
One of Ontario’s largest hospital corporations is taking the unusual step of suing its former chief executive and two senior administrators, alleging they failed to act properly when they were presented with evidence of a procurement fraud.
London Health Sciences Centre, which manages three hospitals and more than 15,000 employees, announced two lawsuits this week stemming from an investigation into analleged $50-million fraud scheme. The hospital network alleges inflated contracts were steered to companies with ties to a former vice-president of London Health Sciences.
Up until two days ago, the residents of the tiny Ontario community of Quadeville had been on high alert. Some children were kept indoors, and parents were on the lookout for a possibly violent and unpredictable creature.
The fear stemmed from the discovery of a missing eight-year-old girl on June 24 who had been so savagely attacked, investigators warned residents that they believed it must have been an animal.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose 35-per-cent tariffs on imports from Canada starting Aug 1, upping pressure on Ottawa as it seeks to secure a deal with the White House over the next week.
In a letter posted on his website Truth Social on Thursday evening, Mr. Trump said he would increase the tariffs that were imposed on Canada in March and currently stand at 25 per cent. Mr. Trump justified the levies as an effort to force Canada to do more to address U.S complaints about fentanyl trafficking and illegal migration.
Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet made history Thursday by becoming the first woman to lead the Royal Canadian Air Force.
She took the reins from Lt.-Gen. Eric Kenny at a change-of-command ceremony at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum presided over by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan.
A dose of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination awaits the next patient during a vaccine clinic at Southwestern Public Health in St. Thomas, Ont. on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins
Justin Bieber is teasing his long-awaited seventh studio album – apparently called Swag – with a series of billboards and social media posts Thursday.
Billboards depicting Bieber were found by fans in Reykjavik, Iceland, and in Los Angeles with the word “Swag.” The singer also shared images of billboards on his official Instagram account that appeared to depict a track list that includes song names like All I Can Take, Walking Away, Dadz Love and Forgiveness.
Contemporary folk-poet Mustafa, alt-pop singer Nemahsis and electronic experimentalist Marie Davidson are among the 10 acts shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, which carries a slimmed-down cash reward this year.
Organizers say the best Canadian album winner will receive $30,000, down from $50,000, as various sponsors scale back financial contributions.
Infectious-disease experts are cautiously optimistic that Ontario’s measles outbreak will continue to taper off after a gradual decline in new cases over the past two months.
Cases peaked in early May, show provincial data, with weekly case counts hovering around 200. They have since been declining with some variation.
Protesters have blockaded a Hydro-Québec work site at a proposed hydroelectric project in traditional Innu territory in Labrador, prompting the utility to suspend its operations in the area.
Jerome Jack was among the demonstrators gathered at the site at Gull Island on Thursday afternoon. Innu people in Labrador, he said, were not properly consulted by the Innu Nation nor Hydro-Québec about the proposed power plant.
On the floe edge near Pond Inlet, in the northern part of Baffin Island, Nunavut, narwhal pods are migrating to open waters.
As landfast sea ice retreats and shifts to create passageways through open water, the ice-loving toothed whales journey into Eclipse Sound – the eastern Arctic entrance to the Northwest Passage – before venturing deeper into coastal inlets to forage for foods.
Cineplex Inc. says its box office revenue for June totalled $51.8 million, marking the first quarter since 2019 that it topped $50 million in each month. The company says a steady stream of blockbuster titles, combined with strong demand for its premium formats drove sustained attendance and revenue growth throughout the quarter.
Alberta has issued a ministerial order to restrict books from school libraries that the province believes are sexually explicit, instructing authorities to remove the material by October and prohibit students from accessing it.
Demetrios Nicolaides, Alberta’s Education and Childcare Minister, said Premier Danielle Smith’s government will require all school boards to create or update policies to meet the province’s new safeguards. Until now, he stressed, schools had “zero standards” to select appropriate content for libraries.
Wildfires have burned through more than a million hectares of forest in Manitoba this year, prompting Premier Wab Kinew to declare a second provincewide state of emergency and call upon the military to help once again with thousands of evacuations from fly-in communities.
The province, which was under a state of emergency until late last month, made the latest declaration Thursday. More than 12,600 people across the province are now being told to leave their homes, many for the second time.
Cineplex Inc. CGX-T says its box office revenue for June totalled $51.8-million, marking the first quarter since 2019 that it topped $50-million in each month.
The movie theatre company says a steady stream of blockbuster titles, combined with strong demand for its premium formats drove sustained attendance and revenue growth throughout the quarter.
Alyssa Coady sits on the cabin roof while heading out from Covehead Harbour on Setting Day morning. Alyssa and her brother, Bryce, grew up fishing lobster with their father, Allan.
(Nathan Rochford/The Globe and Mail)
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew again declared a provincewide state of emergency Thursday, as renewed wildfires forced thousands out of their homes, some for the second time in weeks.
Kinew said the order, the second since late May, is critical to rally resources.
A Newfoundland couple’s romantic message in a bottle was found 13 years later on a beach in Ireland. Martha Farrell, co-founder of the Maharees Conservation Association in Ireland, found Anita Squires, one half of the now-married couple, through the group’s Facebook post about the bottle.
A romantic message in a bottle thrown from the cliffs of an island off Newfoundland nearly 13 years ago was found on a beach in Ireland this week – and the couple behind it are still in love.
Brad and Anita Squires had been dating for about a year when they decided to end a quiet September picnic on Bell Island in 2012 by casting a message out to sea.
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Some of the kinds of tactical gear that the RCMP alleges was in the hands of the soldiers arrested in Quebec is highly restricted and is generally inaccessible to individuals, experts say.
On Tuesday, the Mounties arrested and charged four men in connection with an alleged terrorist plot. Two are active non-commissioned army officers, one is a former soldier and the fourth a former cadet instructor.
Garett Hickling wheeled into the Olympic Stadium in London before hoisting a large Canadian flag with his left hand.
The wheelchair rugby legend was given the honour of leading 145 athletes, 12 support personnel and 134 officials as Canada’s flag bearer at the 2012 Paralympics, a highlight in a career that included four Paralympic medals and a world championship gold medal.
Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon says he’s been treated like a pariah in the eight years since he was publicly accused by multiple women of sexual assault.
The disgraced former comedy mogul says the allegations have ruined his life and cost him his company.
Ottawa says it will work to align its flight security regulations with those in the U.S. after Washington dropped a rule that required passengers to remove their shoes during security screenings.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that passengers at American airports no longer need to remove their shoes because officials have found other ways to keep travellers safe.
An independent commission tasked with improving safety at public events in B.C. after a deadly vehicle attack at a Filipino street festival has recommended that the province mandate risk assessments for all such gatherings, clarify jurisdictional roles and improve training.
The province convened the Commission of Inquiry into Community Events Safety in May after the April 26 vehicle attack. Eleven people died and dozens more were injured when an SUV barrelled through the busy Lapu-Lapu Day block party on the city’s eastside, casting fear and uncertainty on to the summer festival season ahead.
The United States is complaining about another Canadian export: wildfire smoke ruining the summer in their neck of the woods.
Six Republican members of the U.S. Congress have penned a public letter to Canada’s ambassador in Washington, demanding that their northern neighbour do better at mitigating wildfires, which have led to thousands of evacuations in this country and sent thick smoke billowing across the border over the past couple of months.
Impala Platinum Holding Ltd. plans to end production at its Lac des Iles mine in northwestern Ontario at the end of May next year due to low palladium prices.
The South African company currently employs about 750 people at the mine north of Thunder Bay, Ont.
A Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems says the national security review process that led the federal government to order it to shut down its Canadian operations was unfair.
Hikvision makes the arguments in a court filing challenging a June 27 directive from the federal government to close down its business in Canada.
Canadian summer camp organizers say they expect a ripple effect of bolstered emergency plans and preparations this summer after more than two dozen campers and camp counsellors were killed by severe flash floods in Texas on Friday.
“I would be shocked if there aren’t a lot of people that are looking at this and taking pause, even reflecting on their own policies,” said Brad Halsey, an Alberta summer camp director and board vice-chair of the Alberta Camping Association.
Red Deer Minor Hockey says it is conducting an internal investigation after a video surfaced showing one of its coaches, former NHL player Nick Tarnasky, involved in a fight at a golf course.
The incident took place recently at Alberta Springs Golf Resort, just outside Red Deer, Alta.
Nita Jalkanen says she checks on the avian neighbours that fly into her Edmonton backyard to drink from her bird bath nearly every day with her dog Ariel.
“I talk to them. I say, ’Good morning or good afternoon, Mr. Magpie’ and they feel safe so there’s no squawking,” said the 59-year-old in an interview.
Ontario colleges have been shedding thousands of jobs over the past year in what is being described as one of the largest mass layoffs in the province’s history by the union that represents most college faculty.
More than 8,000 jobs have been or will be lost in the college sector since the federal government imposed a cap on the number of international study permits in January, 2024. That figure was released in a recent report from arbitrator William Kaplan.
Black-billed magpies can be seen walking, soaring and chirping in nearly every neighbourhood in Edmonton. Elly Knight, an avian ecologist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, says Edmonton identifies with the creature and recently voted to make it the city's official bird.
Police say they are looking for suspects after three people were stabbed at the Calgary Stampede late Tuesday.
Calgary police have said officers were called to an area of the Stampede midway, where they found a severely injured man. He was taken to hospital in serious condition, Acting Inspector Scott Campbell said Wednesday.
Ottawa is expected to miss its 2026 deadline to implement $10-a-day child care services across the country, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives said in a new report published on Wednesday.
The analysis concluded that just six provinces and territories are meeting that fee target now.
Purdys Chocolatier says the buy Canadian movement has generated so much demand for its products that it decided to sell them outside its own stores for the first time in its 118-year history.
The Vancouver-based confectionary company’s products can now be found on the shelves of Save-On-Foods, a western Canadian grocer.
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In 2013, Ruby Rubaiyat left a series of desperate voicemails with psychiatrists in Ottawa he had Googled, seeking help for his suicidal thoughts. This began an eight-year journey of misdiagnoses and unsuccessful treatments before a manic episode finally catalyzed a correct diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
But since then, Mr. Rubaiyat has continued struggling for relief, cycling through 11 failed treatment regimens while his career, relationships and self-esteem have frayed.
An “unsophisticated, homemade” bomb blew open the door at a British Columbia cabinet minister’s constituency office in North Vancouver last month, RCMP said Tuesday.
Corporal Mansoor Sahak said the Mounties’ explosive disposal unit determined the bomb was likely set off with a burning fuse.
Two suspects that the North Vancouver RCMP are looking for in relation to an event where an "unsophisticated, homemade" bomb blew open the door at a British Columbia cabinet minister's constituency office in North Vancouver last month are shown in a combination image made from CCTV footage provide by the RCMP in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - North Vancouver RCMP (Mandatory Credit)
The spill of about two million tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine was one of the two “most catastrophic failures” in the 45-year history of the heap-leaching mining process, an engineer tasked with reviewing it said.
Mark Smith said the disasters last year, the other occurring in Turkey, would “define the next 10 or 20 years for heap-leach practices,” in which minerals are extracted from piles of ore by running liquid chemicals through them.
An eastern Canadian conservation group is calling for a moratorium on aquaculture expansion in Newfoundland and Labrador, alleging fish-farming companies are stashing plastic garbage along the province’s remote southern coastline.
In a report summary released Tuesday, the Atlantic Salmon Federation said satellite images suggest aquaculture companies appear to have left broken cages, rope and other debris in six sites along Newfoundland’s south coast.
Two student pilots have died after their small airplanes crashed mid-air in Manitoba’s rural municipality of Hanover.
RCMP confirmed that the pilots – a man and a woman – were pronounced dead on scene Tuesday near wreckage, just above an hour-long drive south of Winnipeg.
When the Calgary Stampede’s program is tweaked, it’s news. After all, the last time the landmark rodeo introduced a new competition was nearly 50 years ago when ladies’ barrel racing was added.
The Stampede’s decision in March to add breakaway roping – a women’scalf-roping event that has been a mainstay at American rodeos for years – was a big deal.
Macy Rae Auclair with her horse Chrome practices roping at her family’s spread near Ponoka, Alta., on July 2, 2025. Auclair will be competing in the historic first ever breakaway roping event held at the Calgary Stampede. LEAH HENNEL /THE GLOBE AND MAIL
The NHL’s Board of Governors and the NHL Players’ Association membership have ratified a four-year collective bargaining agreement through the 2029-30 season, the two sides announced Tuesday.
In a joint statement, the league and the union said details of the agreement will be available at a later date.
Insolvency statistics for May show a rise from April but are down from a year ago, when the Bank of Canada had yet to start lowering interest rates.
The 12,395 insolvencies in May were up 2.3 per cent from April, while down 2.6 per cent from May last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy.
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