Raging wildfires in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories have caused “apocalyptic devastation” in those regions, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday. A state of emergency has been declared in B.C., where hundreds of fires across the province have forced mass evacuations. In N.W.T., all residents of the territory’s capital have been ordered to
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 20, 2023 4:16 pm Updated August 20, 2023 8:32 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Provincial police say four people are dead after a construction project turned tragic Saturday in Quebec’s Bas-St-Laurent region. Police say the victims were atop a scissor lift several metres above
Two cities in southern Ontario that share a partial border have taken the number one spots for the rudest and politest cities in Canada. Preply, which surveyed more than 1,500 Canadians across 44 cities, found which cities across the country people thought were the rudest and “whether the stereotype of apologizing too much is true.”It
Structures have been lost in West Kelowna due to the McDougall Creek wildfire, officials confirmed early Friday morning. It is not known exactly how many buildings have burned due to the fire but the Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre said a full assessment of the area will be undertaken Friday morning.At around 3 a.m. Friday
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada has been considering a “game plan” for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right, authoritarian shift after next year’s presidential elections. “We are certainly working on scenarios,” Joly said in French during an interview with a Montreal radio station Wednesday.Joly added that Ottawa’s close
Secretly filming and sharing footage of consensual sex constitutes a sexual assault, according to an Ottawa judge’s recent ruling, sparking a debate over how courts view consent in cases involving technology. Views on the issue have been evolving in recent years, spurred by high-profile cases, particularly involving teenagers, of revenge porn and “sextortion,” which involves
Would you pay $2,000 to live in a 200-square-foot unit in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside? That’s the offer that was briefly advertised in a slick TikTok video for a unit in the Lotus Hotel at Abbott and Pender streets, and swiftly drew online backlash.The video, first reported by CBC News, takes viewers on a tour through
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hyundai Motors North America has issued a safety recall of 63,128 cars in Canada and the United States. Of those recalled vehicles, 11,120 are in Canada, Jennifer McCarthy, a spokesperson for the company, told Motorcycle accident toronto today Wednesday.The vehicles are being recalled as a safety measure due to
Changes to New Brunswick’s policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools violate the Charter rights of children, the province’s child and youth advocate said Tuesday. Kelly Lamrock released his findings in a report of nearly 100 pages, concluding that the Education Department did not seriously consider the legal consequences of its changes to
The City of Yellowknife declared a state of local emergency due to surrounding wildfires on Monday night. The declaration was passed at an emergency council meeting Monday evening, and the city says in a tweet it will ensure the community “can exercise precautionary practices and acquire the equipment and resources needed to keep Yellowknife safe.”It