The wind was so strong in Toronto, Ontario that even this groundhog was debating staying inside.
Ontarians will head to the polls on June 2 to cast their vote on election day. As Matthew Bingley reports, Ontario’s political leaders are keen to make one last impression on voters as they enter their final week of campaigning.
A major housing project on unceded Squamish territory took another step forward Wednesday as the City of Vancouver agreed to allow developers access to critical infrastructure, such as sewage and transportation. The Squamish First Nation's Sen̓áḵw housing development will be built on 11 acres of land at the foot of the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood, and will be home to 6,000 residential units. Squamish spokesperson Sxwíxwtn (Wilson Williams) says the project will g
A man shot dead by police after reports of a person with a rifle forced several schools into lockdown in Toronto Thursday in fact had a pellet gun, Ontario's police watchdog says. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) also says the man was 27. Toronto Police Chief James Ramer said officers were called to the Port Union area of Scarborough around 1 p.m. for reports of a person with a gun. According to police, multiple residents called 9-1-1 with reports of a man in his late teens or early 20s wit
Police in St. John's say a string of violent offences involving guns and knives are connected to a "criminal network," and that one arrest has been made. The saga goes back to at least May 13, when two men in ski masks jumped out of a gold Toyota sedan and opened fire on a parked vehicle on Galway Boulevard in St. John's. Nobody was reported injured. Eight days later, on May 21, a 22-year-old man from Paradise was stabbed on George Street in downtown St. John's. About three hours after that, som
When Violet Soosay's aunt went missing in 1979, she made a promise to her grandmother that she would find her daughter and bring her home. Decades later, she is finally fulfilling that promise. Shirley Soosay's remains are being flown from California to Alberta on Thursday, arriving at the Edmonton International Airport in the afternoon. "Once that is complete, I know that the weight of the world will be off of my shoulders," Violet Soosay told CBC News. The homecoming marks the end of her famil
New off-Broadway musical "Suffs" - based on the American suffragists of the early 20th century - introduces sold out crowds to real-life American women who fought for a woman's right to vote, including Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells and Carrie Chapman Catt. (May 26)
The Government of Nunavut is once again offering the Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccines to infants with certain pre-existing health conditions. This comes as the territory announced in a news release there has been an increase in respiratory infections caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and influenza. RSV is a contagious infection that attacks the respiratory tract. The Nunavut government announced in the release it was immediately restarting its Palivizumab program — the RSV vaccine
24-year-old Ajax Seminary student Maryanne Oketch became the second Canadian woman in a row to win the coveted title of Survivor. As Kayla McLean reports, she has won a cash prize of $1M.
Ray Coombs watched the Hay River arrive at his homestead "like a big tidal wave" of water and ice. "It was really surreal what happened," he told CBC's Loren McGinnis. "And then it seemed like the perfect storm. "I could hear crackling like a major forest fire — that was the trees snapping off and I could see in behind the house, like a big tidal wave coming of water and ice. And it just rose up about two more feet and a wave was coming through our yard." Flooding from the Hay River overwhelmed
A Texas law enforcement official says the 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 21 people at an elementary school entered the building "unobstructed' (May 26)
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — Jill Biden and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy welcomed the delivery Wednesday of a second shipment of tens of thousands of pounds of baby formula that the Biden administration is importing from Europe to ease critical supply shortages in the U.S. The first lady and the nation's doctor each sought to empathize with anxious parents nationwide who have been scrambling to find enough formula for their children. Both said President Joe Biden and his team understand what parents ar
A gunman stormed into an elementary school Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers. An expert at Johns Hopkins University argues gun legislation is key in preventing mass shootings. (May 25)
A Calgary man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for terrorism offences, including kidnapping, committed during a year-long stint fighting as a trained sniper with ISIS in Syria. Last month, Hussein Sobhe Borhot, 36, pleaded guilty to participating in terrorist activities outside Canada and committing a crime at the direction of a terrorist organization. On Thursday, Court of Queen's Bench Justice David Labrenz accepted a joint submission proposed by prosecutor Kent Brown and defence lawye
Its bright green roof has always made Bishop James Mahoney Catholic High School in Saskatoon easy to spot. Now the school is turning heads for a different reason: a giant flower on its lawn. The five-metre tall flower made of cement, metal, and silicon is called a Smartflower. Its petals are solar panels that draw energy from the sun and feed it into the school through a microgrid. A microgrid is a type of electrical grid that only holds a small amount of power compared to the grids that power t
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many voters in heavily Democratic Los Angeles are seething over rising crime and homelessness and that could prompt the city to take a turn to the political right for the first time in decades. One of the leading candidates for mayor is Rick Caruso, a pro-business billionaire Republican-turned-Democrat who sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and is promising to expand spending on police, not defund them. At another time, the high-end mall and resort
VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has released documents it says led to the decision to build a new provincial museum at a cost of almost $800 million. The documents, which number thousands of pages, say the current Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria is not seismically safe, includes hazardous materials and is at risk of flooding. The Opposition Liberals have called the proposed replacement a "billion-dollar vanity project," and Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon says he will cancel the rebuild if
MONTREAL — National Bank of Canada beat expectations as it reported its second-quarter net income grew to $893 million and raised its quarterly dividend on Friday. The Montreal-based bank said it will now pay a quarterly dividend of 92 cents per share, up five cents from 87 cents per share. The increased payment to shareholders came as the bank says it earned $2.55 per diluted share for the quarter ended April 30 compared with a profit of $801 million or $2.25 per diluted share a year earlier. R
The commissioner investigating what led to the breakdowns and derailments on Ottawa's light rail system told residents Wednesday night that the upcoming public inquiry is their inquiry. "We serve you," Justice William Hourigan told a well-spaced group of a few dozen people Wednesday evening at the first of two public meetings being held at Ottawa's Shaw Centre. He encouraged others to share their experiences at the second meeting Thursday or by email. "We need to understand what went wrong, who
PARIS (AP) — For a player who doesn’t consider himself to be a striker, Mohamed Salah is the envy of many forwards with his scoring record for Liverpool. “I don’t play No. 9, I play on the wing,” Salah said. “It’s completely different when you play as a winger.” And yet the Egyptian enters the Champions League final on Saturday with 31 goals in 50 games for this season and as the leading forward in English football. An impressive goal return but one eclipsed by the true No. 9 that Real Madrid wi
