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Some B.C. municipalities are changing their heat-wave management plans, including potentially keeping cooling centres open overnight, as unseasonably high temperatures hit Metro Vancouver once again this week. Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for Metro Vancouver, Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley and eastern Vancouver Island. It also issued a special weather statement for a […]

Health and infectious disease experts say the rate at which COVID-19 cases are growing in Alberta is alarming, as it spreads faster than it during the height of the pandemic’s third wave.  The R-value, which represents the number of people infected by each infected person, was 1.48 (with a confidence interval of 1.38-1.59) in Alberta as of Sunday, […]

At the halfway point of B.C.’s fire season, the province is “significantly higher” than the 10-year average both in terms of the number of fires and the area burned, says an official with B.C. Wildfire Service.  There are currently 253 active wildfires burning in British Columbia, of which 38 are wildfires of note. Since April 1, […]

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN), which represents Saskatchewan’s First Nations, is demanding the resignation of one of the province’s top judges after he did not immediately release a residential school file. FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron says the court’s attitude is typical of the institutional racism faced by First Nations people in the justice […]

Human remains found in rural Manitoba last week have been identified as Clifford Joseph, who has been the subject of a homicide investigation since his disappearance in June.  RCMP said Tuesday the remains found in the area of Stead, Man., some 75 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on July 18 are those of Joseph, 40. Police […]

Charges have been laid against a Toronto man for posting photos of the Alberta judge who recently convicted four anti-mask, COVID-19-denying men who repeatedly breached public health restrictions and judges’ orders. This is the second-known breach of judges’ privacy in as many weeks. It follows news earlier this month that lawyers with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms had […]

Farmers across Saskatchewan say they are feeling the overwhelming mental and financial stress of crop contracts and poor harvests as dry conditions bake their fields.  Only about half of the crops across the province are at their normal stages of development for this time of year, according to the  latest provincial crop report.  The report attributes […]

A Halifax scuba diver has found something that could shed a little new light on one aspect of a dark chapter in Nova Scotian history. Bob Chaulk has explored Halifax harbour from the Bedford Basin to Chebucto Head with hundreds of scuba dives over the last 30 years. But this spring, a routine dive in […]

Montreal police have issued an Amber Alert. They are looking for a 16-year-old girl who they say was abducted by her 22 year old brother overnight.  According to police, Zahraa Jaafar has been abducted by Ali Mohammad Jaafar.  Investigators are looking for a red Nissan Altima, with the following license plate: Y86 XCZ. The alert went out just […]

Deanne Simms remembers walking into a salon as a teen and being met by a woman who was frantically running toward her from a back room, waving her hands in the air, yelling, “No, no, no; we don’t do your hair here!” Years later, after she had her first child, a stylist at a different salon […]

Evacuees from Red Sucker Lake First Nation in northeast Manitoba began to return home Monday after fleeing wildfires, but more than 2,000 people from four other First Nations are still stuck. The Canadian Red Cross, which is co-ordinating flights, says about 200 community members staying in Winnipeg and Brandon will be back home by Tuesday. The people from Red Sucker Lake […]

Director Theo Kapidistrias is this year’s top winner of the Prism Prize for his work on the music video for Haviah Mighty’s Thirteen, organizers said Monday.  The win, one of several prizes recognizing achievement and artistry in Canadian music videos, comes with $20,000. Kapidistrias’s work on Mighty’s video beat out that of nine other shortlisted artists, who did videos for musicians including […]