On New Year’s Eve morning in Montreal, Mark Nikiforov sawed a hole into the thick sheet of ice capping the St. Lawrence River, preparing to plunge inside. With temperatures hovering around -13 C — feeling colder than -20 with the wind chill — Nikiforov and about a dozen others stripped down to bathing suits, toques…
Provincial grant funding, $2.3 million, has been approved for over 40 playground projects in Saskatchewan. Three schools in Saskatoon — St. Paul School, Bishop Filevich Ukrainian School, and St. Anne School — will receive the funding. The government says the goal of the grants that were launched in the fall is to help parents build…
The national RCMP union is criticizing what it calls a “misleading” Alberta government panel report that urges Premier Danielle Smith’s government to continue steps to ditch the Mounties. Brian Sauvé, the head of the National Police Federation, says the Alberta Next panel is trying to revive a proposal that has already been rejected by Albertans….
Descrease article font size Increase article font size CN Rail says its crews are continuing their work at the scene of a train derailment in Winnipeg’s South Osborne area on Sunday. According to an email from CN, the derailment occurred at approximately 3 a.m. local time, with the incident occurring near Winnipeg Transit’s Jubilee Station….
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Halifax on Friday, marking the president’s second visit to Canada this year. The leaders met amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, highlighting Canada’s support for Kyiv. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Canada has provided nearly $22 billion in…
Canada is used to looking to the United States as a source of health and scientific information, but the federal health minister said that is no longer the case. “I cannot trust them as a reliable partner, no,” said Health Minister Marjorie Michel in a year-end interview. Michel added that the U.S. “can be reliable…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 25, 2025 12:42 pm Updated December 25, 2025 12:53 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man and a child are missing after a tractor sank in a lake in the Lanaudière region, northeast of Montreal. The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) says a team…
Christmas charity drives ensure thousands of children experience as happy a holiday as possible in Lethbridge, Alta. The Christmas Hope campaign include several top charities, from food banks to toy drives. “We’re so happy to be in the Christmas Hope partnership. It’s a great model that other cities could stand to emulate,” said Dryden Roesch,…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size It’s crunch time for shopping centres across Saskatchewan as last-minute gift buyers hope to cross items off their lists. But for some shoppers, such as Anja Sierhaus in Saskatoon, their lists are being kept purposely short. “Everything has risen like crazy and I see that the prices…
The mayor of a village in Quebec’s Far North says a six-year-old girl was one of two people found injured after an exchange of gunfire involving the Nunavik Police Service over the weekend. Inukjuak Mayor Bobby Epoo says the girl was flown to a hospital in Montreal where she is receiving care, but he did not provide…
