Rescue crews pulled a pilot from a crashed plane seconds before the Cessna was struck by a train in Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions left over to pay down federal deficits. All told, the Democrats' “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package heading toward final passage in Congress and to the White House for P
OTTAWA — Two days before the Emergencies Act was invoked last February to quell anti-government convoy protests, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned ministers that international partners were concerned Canada wasn't able to control the situation. The warning is contained in heavily redacted summaries of three meetings of the government’s incident response group and one meeting of the full cabinet, which were released through the Federal Court as part of a challenge of the government’s use of th
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump called late Thursday for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.” In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents ... I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the im
A 70-year-old retiree from Toronto's Scarborough area won big after scoring the $20 million Lotto 6/49 prize from the July 9 draw.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump says he will not oppose a Justice Department move to unseal the warrant that authorized an FBI search of his Florida estate. His lawyers are expected to respond today.
A fearless lawyer known for her strong work ethic and tenacious dedication to family has died. Elaine Keenan Bengts passed away in her Yellowknife home Monday after fighting with cancer. She was 63. Keenan Bengts was born in Saskatoon in 1958 and came to Yellowknife "for two years" with her family in 1969. Like many northerners, she ended up staying for over 50 years. She raised her family here and made the North her home. She was inspired by her father to earn her law degree. "Dad always used t
TORONTO (Reuters) -Power was restored in downtown Toronto on Thursday after an outage left the offices of Canada's top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of one of the city's biggest shopping malls and trapped people in elevators. "Earlier this evening, Toronto Fire cleared the station allowing our crews to safely reroute and restore power to Toronto Hydro," it said in a statement, referring to the company that distributes electricity in downtown Toronto. Toronto is Canada's biggest city and its financial capital, and the central business district is home to the country's largest banks, insurers and the stock exchange operator.
Nova Scotians who are admitted to the hospital while sick with COVID-19 are no longer being treated in a unit separate from patients who have not contracted the virus. The province has been moving away from designated COVID-19 units for some time. The last ones closed in mid-July. It's now using a "care in place" model, meaning all patients will be treated in whichever unit or facility of the hospital that meets their needs, regardless of COVID-19 status. Patients with COVID-19 are placed in a p
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador officials say the state of emergency called last weekend because of raging wildfires in the centre of the province will end on Saturday. Wildfire behaviour, air quality and weather conditions were all encouraging enough to support the decision, the Department of Justice and Public Safety said Friday in a news release. "The current forecast is showing favourable weather conditions and continuing to trend in a positive direction," the department said. T
New Brunswick paramedics say offload delays at hospitals have been getting worse and are yet another symptom of a health-care system increasingly under strain. On a recent night outside the Moncton Hospital, as many as 15 units were tied up. Waiting times on June 27 ranged from 52 minutes to nearly 14 hours, according to Ambulance N.B. What is less visible is how this impacts smaller communities. Crews in towns and villages then may be called up to work in larger centres, leaving stations like t
BANGKOK (AP) — An Australian academic who is being tried with ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of violating the country’s official secrets law testified in court for the first time on Thursday, a legal official said. Sean Turnell, an economist at Sydney’s Macquarie University, had served as an adviser to Suu Kyi, who was arrested when her elected government was ousted by the army on Feb. 1 last year. He was arrested five days later and is now being held in the main prison in Nay
A 26-year-old man died in hospital of gunshot wounds after a shooting in Montréal-Nord Wednesday night. Police say they received multiple calls around 10:20 p.m. about gunshots near a school in the area, by the intersection of P M Favier Avenue and De Charny Street. When police arrived on the scene, they found the man badly injured. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. Montreal police say it's the 19th homicide of the year. There were 36 homicides in Montreal in 2021. Another m
Former students and opposition members have been calling on Saskatchewan's education minister to freeze government funding or shut down a private Christian school. A CBC News investigation this month has brought to light allegations by more than 30 students who say they were subject to years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by staff and leadership at the Christian Centre Academy, now called Legacy Christian Academy (LCA), and adjacent church. The Ministry of Education announced changes to
A trio of northern First Nations expect to be the first Indigenous group to take over child welfare services from the Alberta government — but say their new agency won't be up and running for over a year. Loon River Cree Nation, Peerless Trout First Nation and Lubicon Lake Band are on track to sign the first agreement in Alberta, and to potentially be the first collective to sign in Canada, said Mona Auger, executive director of KTC Child & Family Services. Its head offices are located in Red Ea
A truck was stolen from a Hay River, N.W.T., business earlier this week and turned up later on fire and about 38 kilometres away from the community, say police. On Wednesday around 5 a.m., Hay River RCMP say they received reports of a semi truck on fire near the community of Enterprise, N.W.T. A man was spotted walking near the scene of the fire, according to some of the people who called the incident in to the detachment, RCMP said in a news release. An immediate search for the person was made,
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Aug. 5 demonstrations by India’s main opposition Congress party against soaring food prices and unemployment began like any other recent protest — an electorally weak opposition taking to the New Delhi streets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massively popular government. The protests, however, quickly took a turn when key Congress lawmakers led by Rahul Gandhi — Modi’s main opponent in the last two general elections — trooped to the Parliament, leading to fierce stand
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador officials say the state of emergency called last weekend because of raging wildfires in the centre of the province will end on Saturday. Wildfire behaviour, air quality and weather conditions were all encouraging enough to support the decision, the Department of Justice and Public Safety said Friday in a news release. "The current forecast is showing favourable weather conditions and continuing to trend in a positive direction," the department said. T
The beachgoers may have been happy for the sunny weather in the last half of July and early August, but P.E.I. farmers were ready for rain. "It was hot, dry and windy, so the crop was starting to get stressed and certainly most of the Island had less than adequate moisture," said Greg Donald, general manager of the P.E.I. Potato Board. "We needed a rain." And they got it. Over the course of Monday and Tuesday all of P.E.I. got a soaking, with 25 to 77 millimetres of rain falling, depending on yo
Newlyweds Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham, and "Euphoria" stars Javon Walton and Angus Cloud were honored at the Variety Power of Young Hollywood event in Beverly Hills. (Aug. 12)
