Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obtained by The Canadian Press. The internal document sent Sept. 10 by the justice department asks other departments to assemble information as per a directive from Smith’s office to…
Manitoba has filed its intervention in the Supreme Court fight over Quebec’s controversial secularism law, arguing that courts across Canada should be able to issue opinions on whether other jurisdictions’ laws — including those that use the notwithstanding clause — violate the rights of Canadians. Courts should be able to declare whether laws like Quebec’s Bill 21 violate the…
St. John’s curler Brad Gushue has announced he will retire from competitive curling at the end of this season. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press) Newfoundland and Labrador curler Brad Gushue — a two-time Olympic medallist who has won more national men’s curlling championships than anyone else in the sport — has announced he will retire from competitive curling at…
Kelowna, B.C., saw a surge in travel this summer, with airline traffic climbing to new heights. According to Kelowna International Airport, passenger numbers were up significantly, breaking previous records. “We’ve had a very busy summer — very positive,” said Sam Samaddar, CEO of Kelowna International Airport. The airport reported a 7.6-per cent increase in passengers…
The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) broke up a cross-border drug ring tied to Mexican cartels and seized what it says is its largest amount of cocaine ever. The two-year-long Project Cerberus — which takes its name from the three-headed hound that guards the gates of the underworld in Greek mythology — began in May 2023, with the…
Click on the video player above beginning on Wednesday at 5:05 a.m. ET to watch the best track and field athletes on the planet compete at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. 2021 Olympic champion Andre De Grasse and fellow Canadians Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake will compete in the first round of the men’s 200m,…
”Twas the months before Christmas and all through the region, people were wondering if Bright Nights was leavin’. Well, it’s gone from Vancouver, but not finished altogether. Bright Nights is moving to Surrey. Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke said the location will not be revealed until a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. One obvious possibility is…
The Alberta government’s plan to add Canadian citizenship markers to provincial driver’s licences has been met with skepticism by some legal and immigration experts, who worry the measure is a “disproportionate” solution that the province might have a hard time justifying. Meanwhile, the minister in charge of the change, Dale Nally, said Tuesday that “because we live…
The Indianapolis Colts won their second game of the NFL season Sunday — their first 2-0 start since 2009 — but that’s not the only reason the internet is abuzz about the team. Because as exciting as their run might be for fans, it’s the Colts’ CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon that has people talking right now….
Summer may be coming to an end in the Okanagan, but the drought that came with it is still going strong — and according to local experts, it’s not going away anytime soon. “We’re in Drought Level 3 because we’re experiencing warm waters and lower-than-normal stream flows,” said Sandra Shira, a water scientist for the…
