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Lytton resident praises firefighters for saving animals she had to leave behind as she fled

A Lytton, B.C., couple are relieved to hear their animals are safe and in local firefighters’ care four days after a devastating wildfire destroyed...

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Pump prices expected to continue climb as oilpatch eyes better days ahead

With oil prices recently returning to some of their highest levels in years, experts say drivers should prepare to pay even more at the...

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On this Canada Day, Canadians face calls for change — and economic historians have been trying to adjust

This week’s deadly heat wave, with its new record temperatures, is just one example of how the country’s economy seems to be embroiled in change this Canada...

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Military intelligence thought B.C. reservist was a regional leader of far-right movement: documents

Military officials said they believed a Canadian reservist was more prominent in, and more deeply involved with, a now-banned right-wing organization than initial...

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Indigenous leaders secure papal audience to set stage for residential school apology

National Indigenous leaders will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in December to set the stage for a formal papal apology in...

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Woman who saw police kill her ex-boyfriend says ‘he didn’t get the help that he needed’

Amanda Antle and Roy Freake with their child, Jack. Freake was shot to death by police at Antle’s house in Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L.,...

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Parks, lawns and baseball diamonds: How Habs fans are watching the Stanley Cup final

Despite pandemic restrictions and a cap on the number of people allowed at Montreal’s Bell Centre, Habs fans are finding creative ways to gather to...

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Stalled permanent residency application has left London, Ont., engineer’s life ‘on hold’

Amid an economy stricken by the COVID-19 pandemic, 25-year-old Aravind Shaju had to reluctantly step away from his job as an engineer at a lab...

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Canada’s acting top soldier gives head of navy chance at redemption after golf controversy

After two weeks of deliberations, Canada’s acting top soldier, Lt.-Gen. Wayne Eyre, has decided Vice-Admiral Craig Baines will continue to serve as the head...

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Regina woman who lost mother and grandmother to COVID-19 says return to normal isn’t possible

Laina Tuckanow, 21, stands beside two dirt-covered graves in Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery in Regina. They’re not marked with headstones or covered in grass yet....

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Quebec government, Catholic oblates still haven’t delivered key residential school records

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. As First Nations in Quebec plan possible searches of former residential school sites,...

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Scientists, Homalco First Nation team up to probe massive B.C. landslide — and its impact on salmon

When the side of a B.C. mountain gave way on Nov. 28, 2020, crashing into a glacier fed lake and creating a 100-metre high...

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The news from Kamloops shook this country. Will it change anything?

“Canadians are waking up,” Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde told Rosemary Barton Live this weekend. “Governments are waking up.” That awakening...

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Canada to announce easing of some travel restrictions after passing vaccination threshold

The federal government is set to announce Monday the loosening of some border restrictions for fully vaccinated Canadians and permanent residents but says “the...

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Syrian woman builds better life through unlikely friendship with Saint John retiree and his wife

If all of your friends look like you, talk like you and are the same age as you, you can have a good life. But...

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Her Name was Margaret: New book explores life and death of homeless Hamilton woman

A woman who grew up playing piano and accordion in Barbados and died after years of experiencing homelessness in Hamilton is at the heart of Denise Davy’s...