Thousands of Labrador City residents are heading east to Happy Valley-Goose Bay as a wildfire threatens the town. (Darryl Dinn/ CBC) Fire crew teams continue to battle wildfires across Labrador Saturday. Residents of Labrador City were told to evacuate on Friday at 5:30 p.m. AT and to head 500 kilometres east to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Labrador City…
Animal shelters throughout the Peterborough, Ont., area are experiencing capacity crunches with the number of animals waiting to be adopted. At the Peterborough Humane Society, executive director Shawn Morey says the shelter is over capacity and can’t accept any more animals. “We have 140 animals in our building right now — all different stages,” he…
This story is part of the Prairies Climate Change Project, a joint initiative between CBC Edmonton and CBC Saskatchewan that focuses on weather and our changing climate. How climate change affects your health could depend on where you live, according to a new study. In their examination of several Edmonton neighbourhoods, researchers at the University…
A person has died in an overnight crash on Highway 99 in Surrey, B.C. Surrey RCMP said the single-vehicle crash happened at 1:30 a.m. and one of the occupants was declared dead at the scene. The car ended up in a farmer’s field, a few hundred feet from the highway. The Integrated Collision Analysis and…
The Canadian government has purchased a strategically located aircraft hangar in Inuvik, N.W.T., for $8.6 million — a move that’s being met with relief by northerners and experts on Arctic security who were alarmed by foreign interest in the facility. “I think it’s the best idea the government of Canada has had in a long…
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has named Candace Laing its new president and CEO, effective Sept. 1. Laing has served as chair of the chamber’s board of directors since 2022 after joining the board in 2019, serving as its vice-chair from 2021 to 2022. The chamber said she has resigned from that role as she…
McGill University announced the closure of its downtown campus Wednesday morning for a dismantling operation of the pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up more than 10 weeks ago. In a statement on its website, McGill said the university has been subject to “ongoing and escalating acts of violence and vandalism associated with the encampment” and said…
Ontario municipalities have been forced to turn down thousands of child-care spaces in the $10-a-day system because of a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces in the province’s deal with the federal government, the provincial government says. The province has so far created less than a third of the new spaces it committed to by…
Late on July 26, 2022, a Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer driving an unmarked Toyota Highlander tried to pull over a speeding Nissan Altima near the Burnaby-New Westminster border. Minutes later, the Altima would hit another car, killing two teenage occupants, Samir Olyad Suleiman Ali and Yasbrat Habtamu, who were driving home from soccer practice. The…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two people were arrested after a bus slammed into an electrical transmission tower in a weekend crash that left thousands in the dark on Montreal’s south shore. Longueuil police say the driver of the bus, a man in his 60s, is accused of dangerous driving causing injury….
