Canada

First Nation hosting traditional healing gathering to recover from stabbing rampage

JAMES SMITH CREE NATION - A Saskatchewan First Nation that was the site of a mass stabbing last year is hosting a gathering of traditional healing. James Smith Cree Nation Chief Wally Burns says up to...

Aug 21, 2023

A look at the number of wildfires and evacuations in B.C.

British Columbia remains under a state of emergency after thousands of people were evacuated from their homes because of nearby wildfires, including the blazes on either side of Lake Okanagan in the I...

Aug 20, 2023

'We might not have a home': Fire evacuees in Kelowna parking lot ponder unclear fate

KELOWNA, B.C. - Robert Pullen and his husband, Warren, got a knock on their door on Thursday night from a neighbour, and estimate they had about 10 minutes to get out the door. A fast-moving wildfire ...

Aug 20, 2023

Travel ban in parts of B.C. disrupting tourism as raging wildfires burn

KELOWNA, B.C. - The central Okanagan is facing weeks without tourism during its peak season after British Columbia's premier imposed bans on travel to wildfire zones. David Eby says the decision was m...

Aug 20, 2023

The latest news on the wildfires ravaging British Columbia

A state of emergency remains in place today across British Columbia as threatening wildfires force thousands of residents to evacuate from homes in the Okanagan in the southern Interior and elsewhere ...

Aug 20, 2023

Housing crisis to take centre stage at Liberal cabinet retreat in Charlottetown

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to deliver a new mission for his cabinet at a three-day retreat in Charlottetown this week, in a bid to restore Canadians' sense of economic security and ...

Aug 20, 2023

Planting roots: Quebec cemetery turns former golf course into forest for the deceased

SAINTE-SOPHIE, Que. - At a new ecological cemetery north of Montreal, there are no gravestones or plaques. Instead, people locate burial sites with the help of a cellphone app. Cemetery Fort de la Sec...

Aug 20, 2023

Feds need to turbocharge construction innovation to get homes built faster: experts

OTTAWA - Canada's national housing agency has warned that millions of homes must be built within less than a decade to balance the housing market, but even it seems doubtful that its own target is ach...

Aug 20, 2023

Cooler, wet weather that helped firefighters in NWT expected to end today

YELLOWKNIFE - The break that firefighters defending the capital of the Northwest Territories got at the start of the weekend due to rainy weather is expected to end today, as temperatures are forecast...

Aug 20, 2023

A front-row seat to devastation on the shores of Lake Okanagan

KELOWNA - The eerie calm on the Kelowna waterfront Saturday morning was broken by the faint percussive chops of helicopter blades in the distance. There were semblances of normality - people walking t...

Aug 19, 2023