Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Ottawa is one of the reasons why her government has placed a moratorium on approving new wind and solar power projects, arguing the feds are preventing development of backup generation for renewable energy like natural gas. Smith, whose government surprised the province’s renewable energy industry last week by announcing a six-month
It’s like a scene out of a crime show. A detective and a coroner stand in a lab and look at an X-ray to confirm the identity of the person lying in front of them.Police and coroners really do rely on dental records to identify the dead when they otherwise can’t — maybe if the
The city of Paris, France, is allowing residents to swim in the river Seine again for the first time in a century this weekend. France’s capital has been making efforts to clean the waters since 2018 as part of the city’s objective to revive the river’s ecosystem and ensure that it is safe for use in
Taylor Swift has sung that she’s the problem – but if the problem is what to do with boatloads of cash that she brings in for local economies, then it’s one Toronto is likely to welcome. On Thursday, the acclaimed U.S. singer-songwriter announced she will be performing six shows in Canada’s largest city at the
A group representing Canadian businesses is pushing for rental control for commercial units amid reported increases going 10 to 20 per cent. The Better Way Alliance is a group of Canadian businesses advocating for better employer standards and, more recently, for regulations around commercial rent increases.Whereas many residential rental units have limits on how much
Jennifer Allen, a Canadian surrogacy champion who helped well over 100 families achieve their dreams of having children, has died at age 36. After being a surrogate four times herself, Allen founded JA Surrogacy Canada in an effort to create a less “transactional,” more supportive environment for both “intended parents” and the women serving as
Emily Wright, a Toronto elementary school teacher, started taking the drug Ozempic in 2018 as a way to control her food cravings and blood sugar in her battle with Type 2 diabetes. Soon after starting the drug, she said she started to lose a substantial amount of weight.“But that came at a great cost for
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife are separating. Trudeau, 51, announced Wednesday that he and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, 48, who have been married for 18 years, have decided to split up. Grégoire Trudeau released a similarly worded statement on her Instagram account.“Sophie and I would like to share that after many meaningful and difficult
All levels of government must hold management of the Calgary Stampede to account over how it handled years of sexual abuse at a performance school it runs, says one of the city’s 10 members of Parliament. “All levels of government have role to play to ensure that if any taxpayers dollars are (being granted), we
Investigators are looking into the cause of a plane crash that left all six people on board dead Friday night. The plane was heading to Salmon Arm, in B.C.’s Southern Interior, from Calgary and lost contact about 30 minutes into its journey.On Saturday, RCMP said, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton, Ont., tasked a