More than 60 people rescued via helicopter after flooding in B.C. provincial park
It took rescuers 10 helicopter trips and about seven hours to airlift over 60 people from the flooding in Bugaboo Provincial Park on Sunday. Jordy Shepherd, a team member with Columbia Valley Search and Rescue, said they were first called to the popular park in
Woman arrested after posting threats to kidnap, kill Trump on social media
An Indiana woman was arrested in Washington, D.C., over the weekend and charged in connection with making a series of kidnapping and death threats against U.S. President Donald Trump on social media. Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Ind., used her Instagram account to call for
Quebec reports first case of tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Potentially deadly disease already found in Ontario and Quebec this year. Quebec has reported its first case of the potentially deadly tick-borne disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The disease has also been reported in dogs in Ontario. Here’s what you need to know
Wildfires reach southern slopes of Spain’s Picos de Europa mountains
Spain’s worst wave of wildfires on record spread to the southern slopes of the Picos de Europa mountains on Monday and prompted authorities to close part of the popular Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. “This is a fire situation we haven’t experienced in
Ontario municipalities getting $1.6B more for housing as province lags on home building
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province is putting $1.6 billion more toward funds for municipalities to help them get housing built. Ford told the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference Monday in Ottawa that the government has already put $2.3 billion toward
Air Canada CEO says ‘amazed’ striking workers are disregarding work order
The union representing thousands of striking Air Canada flight attendants says it will risk jail time and fines but will not order its members back to work, despite the federal labour relations board calling the strike illegal. “We will not be returning to
Man who hit Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s car now charged with fatal collision
An 18-year-old man from Oshawa, Ont., who was recently charged in a collision that killed a father of three is the same person facing a dangerous driving charge in a crash involving Premier Doug Ford, Ontario Provincial Police say. A GoFundMe page by
Canada’s voting system is constitutional, Ontario Court of Appeal rules
A panel of three Ontario Court of Appeal judges unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system in a ruling released on Monday. The system, laid out in the Canada Elections Act, sees the candidate who receives the most votes in a
Sanctioning Critical Minerals Traffickers Stoking Armed Conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
The United States is sanctioning armed groups carrying out illegal mining and supply chain actors profiteering from conflict minerals in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Department of the Treasury is designating four entities producing and trading in conflict minerals in
Canada alone in G7 with call for prisoner release as Armenia, Azerbaijan in peace talk
The federal government is calling for the release of Armenian detainees and prisoners of war in Azerbaijan as it praised the road to peace paved by a White House-brokered meeting last week between the two countries locked in decades of conflict. “By initialling the
