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Crews battle more than 170 wildfires in B.C. as drying conditions continue
The BC Wildfire Service is facing another challenging day on Saturday as firefighters continue to battle over 170 blazes burning across the province. According to the...
Neighbours come together to carry elderly woman to safety during Vancouver highrise fire
Neighbours carried an elderly woman down 15 flights of stairs to safety on Thursday evening after an apartment in their West End Vancouver...
Prince Albert, Sask., declares state of emergency as wildfire burns nearby
The city of Prince Albert has ordered residents in about 34 homes just north of the city to evacuate due to a wildfire....
No injuries reported after ‘series of eruptions’ at Hamilton steel factory
No injuries have been reported after a large explosion at a steel factory in Hamilton Friday morning, according to Hamilton police. Large clouds of brown...
Looking for COVID-19 trends: Academic experts and private forecasting company form pandemic partnership
Some of Canada’s top academic experts on pandemics are partnering with a company in the Greater Toronto Area to work on national and...
Cold weather brings wet masks and other pandemic-related challenges
There is a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon. But first, winter. We’ve been hearing the warnings for weeks. It’s going to be a...
City issues warning letter to Toronto carpenter building shelters for unhoused people
The City of Toronto has sent a warning letter to a Toronto carpenter who is building tiny mobile shelters for unhoused people ahead...
Large fire destroys lobster facility in Middle West Pubnico, N.S.
A fire destroyed a lobster pound in Middle West Pubnico, N.S., early Saturday. Videos posted to social media show a large fire and...
After 37 years, convicted B.C. child killer to argue wrongful conviction
On an October day in 1983 in the coastal B.C. town of Prince Rupert, a first-degree murder trial began for a 17-year-old named...
Top-secret records show New Brunswick, Alberta companies received millions in ‘suspicious’ transfers
Off the coast of Mauritania in northwest Africa, thick black smoke billowed from a massive fishing trawler, trapping the crew on a vessel...
With the pandemic pinching the unregulated market, legal cannabis sales spike in N.L.
With the pandemic pinching off the supply of illicit drugs, the sale of legalized cannabis products in Newfoundland and Labrador appears to be...
What social science says about convincing people to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mandating, not just recommending, the use of non-medical masks will help convince more Canadians to wear them as the economy reopens, just as...
Eating wild plants is a ‘world that needs to be rediscovered’
Hello, Earthlings! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more...
What is Juneteenth and why is everybody talking about it this year?
It is a 155-year-old day of celebration that many non-Black people in the U.S. and around the world only started to hear of recently....
Why crude oil trains keep derailing and exploding in Canada — even after the Lac-Mégantic disaster
When Melanie Loessl got a call from a friend on Feb. 6 that another oil train had crashed and burned near her community,...
