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More people urged to prepare to evacuate N.L. fire that has destroyed about 100 homes
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — Officials in Newfoundland and Labrador extended an evacuation alert Thursday evening, asking residents of a small coastal community to be ready to flee a wildfire that may have already destroyed up to 100 homes and structures. As a precaution, the province asked residents of Job’s Cove, on Newfoundland’s Bay de Verde Peninsula, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fact File: Canadian misidentified as CDC headquarters shooter
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
Social media posts falsely claimed a Canadian teen, Silas Kruger, was responsible for a shooting at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Friday that left a police officer and the suspect dead. In fact, authorities said 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White is the suspected shooter. Kruger’s father, a Saskatchewan-based ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Racial profiling of customers a neglected human rights issue, report says
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
Heiltsuk Tribal Council Chief Marilyn Slett says no one in her community is immune to the small acts of racial profiling that can embed themselves in the everyday life of an Indigenous person in Canada. “It’s my parents going to a restaurant, and it’s not a busy time in that restaurant, and they’re refusing to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver Island wildfire grows by more than half, rain is on the way
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
PORT ALBERNI — The wildfire that has triggered evacuation orders and alerts on south-central Vancouver Island has grown to more than 34 square kilometres, about 58 per cent larger than what it was the day before. The BC Wildfire Service says the measurement of the Mount Underwood fire, 12 kilometres south of Port Alberni, B.C., ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge overstepped his authority in ruling against Quebec’s language law: appeal court
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal says a provincial court judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he ruled that part of the province’s language law is unconstitutional. In May 2024, Quebec court Judge Denis Galiatsatos raised the question on his own initiative while overseeing a case involving a woman charged with criminal negligence causing the death ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian-led patrol finds alleged shark finning, dolphin harvesting in North Pacific
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
A Canadian-led patrol of the North Pacific has uncovered dozens of alleged fisheries violations, including illegal shark finning and killing of dolphins. Sean Wheeler, international enforcement chief for the Fisheries Department, says the two-month surveillance mission was the first to include crews from three other countries, including the United States, Japan and South Korea, on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!U.S. State Department targets Online News Act in human rights report
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
OTTAWA — The U.S. State Department has released a new human rights report that takes aim at Canada’s Online News Act. The bill, which requires Meta and Google to compensate news publishers for the use of their content, is cited in a section of the report on freedom of the press. Prime Minister Mark Carney ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario health officials report 3 new measles cases, all in Southwestern region
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
TORONTO — Health officials in Ontario are reporting just three new measles cases over the past week, all of them in the province’s southwest region. Public Health Ontario says that brings the province’s total case count to 2,362 measles cases since an outbreak began in October. One case previously reported in Sudbury’s public health unit ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chinese tariff on canola seed comes into force as producers, premiers demand action
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
SASKATOON — A Chinese tariff of nearly 76 per cent on Canadian canola seed came into force Thursday, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre again calling on Ottawa to act. The duty, announced Tuesday, has already caused the price of one of Canada’s most valuable crops to fall, wiping out millions of dollars in its value. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec language watchdog backtracks on pub sign it deemed too English
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
MONTREAL — Quebec’s language watchdog has backed down after trying to get a well-known Montreal pub to change its sign. The language office had instructed Pub Burgundy Lion to add French language to its sign because “burgundy” is an English word. But co-owner Toby Lyle argued publicly that the name is a nod to a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge reduces suspension for two Montreal officers sanctioned for lying to watchdog
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
MONTREAL — A Quebec court judge has overturned the majority of the sanctions against two Montreal police officers who were suspended for lying about their interactions with an inmate who died in custody in 2017. Judge Alexandre Henri ruled that police watchdog investigators had not informed the officers of their right to remain silent. Quebec’s ... Read More »
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