Police north of Montreal say a vehicle found in the Mille-Îles River on Sunday could be linked to the case of a Laval man who went missing in 1988.
Deux-Montagnes police say they are looking into the discovery, which was reported to police by a diving group known as Exploring With a Mission.
Significantly more Canadians believe their federal and provincial governments are working well together than a year ago, according to new public opinion data released ahead of a meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s premiers.
National survey results, unveiled on Sunday, show 52 per cent of respondents agreeing that the federal and provincial governments are working very well or somewhat well together, an increase of 13 percentage points from 2024.
Toronto police say they have arrested and charged a teenage boy in connection to a fatal stabbing of a senior who was loading groceries into her car.
After remaining at large for three days, police say the 14-year-old faces a charge of second-degree murder.
Shahnaz Pestonji, 71, was pronounced dead in hospital after being found with stab wounds in a north Toronto parking lot Thursday morning.
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Health officials are adding Saskatchewan and British Columbia to the list of provinces where salami and cacciatore products connected to a salmonella outbreak were distributed.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says 87 people have now gotten sick after eating contaminated lunch meat, with nine of those people landing in the hospital.
The federal health agency previously reported the contaminated products were sold in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec.
An out-of-control wildfire in Newfoundland’s northeast coast forced residents of Musgrave Harbour, N.L., to flee the town as officials declared a state of emergency.
The provincial Justice Department sent an alert early Sunday that urged people in the coastal community and nearby Banting Memorial Municipal Park to leave because of “extreme wildfire behaviour” in the area.
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Toronto police say a man is dead and a woman is critically injured following an early morning apartment fire in the city’s east end.
Police say crews responded to reports of a fire shortly after midnight in the Gerrard Street East and Glenside Avenue area.
They say a man in his 70s has died in the blaze, while a woman in her 70s is critically injured.
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An independent assessment of the RCMP watchdog, prompted by an anonymous email from employees, uncovered concerns about favouritism, a lack of transparency, heavy workloads and “a toxic environment.”
The workplace assessment of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP found “a clear call for change and action at the leadership level to restore credibility and trust within the organization.”
The Canadian Press recently obtained a copy of the May 2024 assessment, almost six months after filing an Access to Information request with Public Safety Canada, which ordered the report.
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A spokeswoman for the Tomorrowland music festival says a Canadian woman has died after attending the large gathering in Belgium.
Debby Wilmsen says in an emailed statement that a 35-year-old Canadian woman fell ill at the festival on Friday.
The premiers will be gathering in Ontario cottage country this week for a meeting focused on Canada’s continuing response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, and an update from Mark Carney on the state of trade and security negotiations with the U.S.
It will be the first sit down between the Prime Minister and provincial and territorial leaders since Mr. Trump threatened to impose 35-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods outside the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which are currently subjected to 25-per-cent tariffs.
From the outside, Glen Paruk’s West Vancouver home seems typical. It’s an airy and modern building surrounded by Japanese maples.
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Submarines to prowl Canada’s coasts, surface-to-air missiles to protect its cities and billions of dollars for aging military-base infrastructure that in many cases dates back to the Second World War.
For years, the Canadian military has drawn up lists of what it needs to bolster its readiness and capabilities. Now, it may have the cash to change how Canada defends itself.
Paula Callejas was trying to expand her swimsuit business in Florida after taking time off to take care of her ailing father in Canada before his death. Instead of celebrating the fashion line, the Canadian was taken into United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.
The 45-year-old’s family said their finances are being stretched as they try to navigate the confusing and difficult legal and immigration systems in the United States.
A group of Quebec businesses are suing the federal government for $300-million over Ottawa’s sharp tightening of the temporary foreign worker program last fall, arguing that the policy reversal was too abrupt and could drive some of them into insolvency.
The lawsuit, filed in late May, includes nearly two dozen companies in industries from plastics to truck components to slaughterhouses concentrated in the Montéregie region of the province, just outside Montreal, along with five temporary foreign workers whose livelihoods will be or have been affected by the policy changes.
Two years ago, before Justice Maria Carroccia presided at the Hockey Canada trial, she was behind the bench for a long and complicated murder case in her hometown of Windsor, Ont.
Three men were accused of killing a young woman in a dispute over drugs and money. The trial stretched out more than four months under the spotlight of local attention.
Over the past five years, more than 1.3 million Canadians have received a medical prescription for a dose of nature to alleviate health issues, though critics say the science is lacking.
The PaRx program was launched in Canada by the BC Parks Foundation in November, 2020, eventually expanding to other provinces. Crafted by health care professionals, the program recommends at least two hours per week of time in nature, in chunks of no less than 20 minutes at a time, and offers patients tips on how to achieve those goals.
Police in Durham Region say a 16-year-old boy who died after being struck by a floatplane that crashed on Lake Scugog was standing on a dock at the time.
They say the plane crash happened Friday afternoon near the small community of Caesarea, north of Oshawa, Ont.
This week a breathless announcement arrived in my inbox. “Toronto is set to celebrate a historic cultural milestone,” it said. On Aug. 23, the city would hold its very first official “Sankofa Day.” What’s that, you say? You may well ask.
Sankofa Square is the obscure new name for Yonge-Dundas Square, the one-acre public space at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, right across from the Eaton Centre. Sankofa Day, its organizers tell us, is another name for the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
Alberta’s government has contributed $2.8-billion to a provincial wealth fund that now stands at $30-billion and fleshed out the board of directors for a new corporation that was set up to make the fund grow faster.
Premier Danielle Smith’s government created the new Crown corporation, called the Heritage Fund Opportunities Corp., or HFOC, late last year. It will oversee a plan announced in January that aims to boost the assets held by the province’s Heritage Savings Trust Fund to at least $250-billion by 2050.
The last time Yukon residents voted in a territorial plebiscite it was about allowing the sale of alcohol, this time the vote will be on the equally dizzying question of electoral reform.
More than a century since that 1920 plebiscite, the vote that is expected to be part of this year’s territorial election could see the Yukon become the first jurisdiction in Canada to move to a ranked ballot from the current-first-past-the-post system.
Four members of British Columbia’s Expensive Drugs for Rare Diseases Committee have resigned after the government went against its recommendation and reinstated medication funding for a 10-year-old girl.
The fallout from the handling of Charleigh Pollock’s case also saw Health Minister Josie Osborne apologize to the Vancouver Island girl’s family on Friday.
By the age of 23, Alex Delvecchio had placed his name on the Stanley Cup three times. He kept skating with the Detroit Red Wings until he was 41, but he never won another championship.
For nearly a quarter-century, he quietly put together one of the greatest careers in National Hockey League history, though few outside Detroit paid much notice. The forward never won a scoring title, never was named a first-team all-star, never won a most-valuable-player award. Overshadowed by teammate Gordie Howe, it was barely noted upon Mr. Delvecchio’s retirement as a player that he was the league’s second-highest scorer of all time, trailing only his famous linemate.
A fraudster Romeo who bilked five Alberta women of thousands of dollars by faking a lavish lifestyle, brain cancer, seizures and fathering a child with at least one of them, is appealing his dangerous offender designation.
Jeffrey Kent’s lawyer says he has filed a notice of appeal challenging the ruling and his client’s indeterminate sentencing by an Edmonton judge last month.
Chatchawan Jaksuwong says he used to feel empty when he looked at the ocean.
But after encounters with whales in the urban waters of Vancouver the photographer now feels a deep sense of connection, and he’s found community with fellow enthusiasts.
The Supreme Court of Canada has made it more difficult for judges to sentence youth offenders convicted of serious crimes, such as first-degree murder, as adults for their actions.
The top court in two related decisions on Friday provided added detail on how the law should be interpreted by the lower courts.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is demanding an apology for a report commissioned by the Town of Jasper into last year’s devastating wildfires in the National Park after firefighters said their work was impeded by the province.
Blaming the federal government Friday, Ms. Smith dismissed findings from the report. The publication surveyed firefighters and other emergency officials involved in the effort against the wind-whipped conflagrations that destroyed at least one-third of the buildings in the Rocky Mountain resort town.
Chevron CVX-N has scored a critical ruling in Paris that has given it the go-ahead for a $53 billion acquisition of Hess HES-N and access to one of the biggest oil finds of the decade.
Chevron said Friday that it completed its acquisition of Hess shortly after the ruling from the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Exxon XOM-N had challenged Chevron’s bid for Hess, one of three companies with access to the massive Stabroek Block oil field off the coast of Guyana.
An Alberta woman who filed a human-rights complaint after being turned away at a clinic for an ultrasound says she hopes her recent win paves the way for better accommodations for disabled patients.
Stephanie Chipeur complained to the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal after the Calgary diagnostics clinic refused to schedule her for an appointment in 2021 unless she had a caretaker also attend to lift her from her wheelchair onto an exam table.
Good morning. A new park that will be unveiled tomorrow in Toronto is an ambitious example of moving rivers to bring civic imagination to public spaces. More on that below, plus catching up on First Nation leaders meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Bill C-5 and Ukraine’s cabinet shuffle. But first:
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First Nations leaders have opposed both the federal government’s Bill C-5 and Ontario’s Bill 5, pieces of legislation that would allow the two governments extraordinary powers to ignore existing laws – including environmental regulations – to fast-track megaprojects such as mines or pipelines.
They say the two bills run roughshod over the constitutional requirement that governments consult First Nations about development on their traditional territories. A group of nine First Nations in Ontario launched a constitutional challenge this week of both Ontario’s and Canada’s bills.
On a sunny July afternoon, the Don River flowed into Toronto Harbour. Its banks were lined with lake sedge, switchgrass and Canada anemone. Paths and bridges laced through the landscape, which looked as if they had always been there.
In fact, this stretch of river and its surrounding lands − now known as Biidaasige Park − are entirely manufactured. They are not a work of nature but a feat of civic imagination.
They are the product of a $1.5-billion effort known as the Port Lands Flood Protection Project, which has redrawn the mouth of the Don and conjured vast new public spaces from what had long been a civic afterthought.
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Funding for a nine-year-old girl who has an extremely rare neurodegenerative disease has been restored by the British Columbia government.
Health Minister Josie Osborne said Thursday that she has reinstated the funding for Charleigh Pollock for the drug Brineura, which costs about $1 million a year.
The commanding officer of the Cameron Highlanders, an Ottawa reservist unit, has been temporarily removed from his position in the aftermath of a controversy involving soldiers who are alleged to have posted racist comments and sexual images in a private Facebook group.
Army commander Lieutenant-General Michael Wright said in a statement released to media Thursday that he was taking steps to address the “inappropriate behaviour” of Canadian Army members involved in the “Blue Hackle Mafia” Facebook group.
A report into a wildfire that devastated the Rocky Mountain resort town of Jasper last summer says crews did their best but command and control was hampered by the Alberta government.
The report was commissioned by the town and surveyed participants and firefighters who battled the wind-whipped blaze that destroyed a third of buildings in the community located in Jasper National Park.
Alberta’s Auditor-General says the provincial government has not done the work to ensure daycares getting public funds use them to lower fees for parents or top up staff wages.
Doug Wylie, in a report released Thursday, says without proper verification, Alberta could be overcompensating operators with federal and provincial funds meant to lower the average cost of daycare to $10 per day.
“There is a risk that public funds may not be used as intended – leading to parents overpaying for child-care and educators being under-compensated,” the report says.
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Canada and New Zealand have reached a “mutually satisfactory” resolution to a long-running dispute over access for dairy products, the federal government said in a statement on Thursday.
“This agreement, negotiated in close consultation with Canadian dairy stakeholders, will result in certain minor policy changes to Canada’s TRQ (tariff rate quotas) administration, and does not amend Canada’s market access commitments,” International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu and Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald said in a statement.
Via Rail says new collective agreements have been ratified with about 2,500 unionized workers.
The agreements with Unifor’s council 4000 and Local 100 cover the period from the start of this year through to the end of 2027.
Ontario’s police watchdog says it found no grounds to lay a criminal charge against a Thunder Bay officer who approved the cancellation of a domestic disturbance call hours before a woman was found dead in a home.
The Special Investigations Unit has released a report on its investigation into the death of 21-year-old Jenna Ostberg, who the agency said was found without vital signs in a closet in her boyfriend’s bedroom on Dec. 30, 2023.
The number of confirmed measles cases in New Brunswick’s south-central region has more than doubled over the past 24 hours.
Public health officials say there are 13 confirmed cases of the contagious infection in Sussex, N.B., up from five on Wednesday.
Dr. Kimberley Barker, regional medical officer of health for Sussex, said earlier in the week she suspected there could be more cases because some infected people could simply stay home and not seek medical attention.
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The 17-year-old accused of the attack in Quadeville, Ont., of an eight-year-old girl, whose injuries were initially believed to have been caused by an animal, made a brief appearance in a Pembroke court on Thursday.
The accused, whose identity is protected under Ontario’s Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been charged with attempted murder and sexual assault with a weapon on a person under 16 years old.
The search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women has concluded with a new search soon set to begin at a different site for another victim.
The Manitoba government announced Thursday that crews finished looking last week through the Prairie Green landfill, just north of Winnipeg, for remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran. They were among four First Nations women murdered by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki in 2022.
Quebec restaurant owners can now charge a fee to people who make a reservation but don’t show up.
Under new rules in effect on Thursday, restaurants can charge up to $10 for each no-show.
An association representing Quebec restaurant owners has estimated that no-shows cost the average eatery about $49,000 per year.
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The Bank of Canada and most other federal Crown corporations will be looking to trim their budgets over the coming years alongside a wider government effort to cut costs.
A spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday that the central bank “intends to align with the spirit and objectives” of the Liberal government’s cost-cutting plans.
The day before the suspected hijacking of a light aircraft triggered a security scare at Vancouver’s airport this week, former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim posted on social media that he was a “messenger of Allah” sent to save humanity from climate change.
A 39-year-old man with the same name has now been charged with hijacking, constituting terrorism, over the incident on Tuesday that saw Norad scramble F-15 fighter jets before the light plane safely landed.
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British Columbia’s cabinet has been reworked in what Premier David Eby says is a strategic shift in order to focus on jobs and the economy.
Former housing minister Ravi Kahlon takes over as minister responsible for jobs from Diana Gibson, who moves into the citizens’ services role previously held by George Chow.
A new analysis by the national housing agency estimates Canada could add 30,000 more housing starts annually by eliminating interprovincial trade barriers.
That would push the total number of annual housing starts close to 280,000 over time, which would represent a “meaningful step towards fixing Canada’s housing supply gap,” Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation said in a report Thursday.
A landmark meeting between Mark Carney and First Nations leaders ended the way it began Thursday, with a divergence of views on display that signalled a long road ahead for the Prime Minister’s plan to fast-track major projects.
Some leaders emerged with a sense that Mr. Carney had listened thoughtfully to their points of view.
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