Around Canada

Mike Juby was outside Bridge Street United Church in Belleville, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon when people suddenly started dropping to the sidewalk all around him. There were “ambulances left, right and centre” as paramedics loaded people onto stretchers and rushed them to hospital, he recalled. “It was ugly,” Juby said. …

In a 2022 promotional video, Robby Clark stands at the bow of a yacht, arms raised to the sky as a camera circles overhead. “You can stick me in the desert with nothing and I’m going to come out owning the desert,” he says. Less than two years later, his …

Last year, CBC published a story about Korean Canadian adoptees who believed they were orphans their whole lives, only to discover that wasn’t the case. Since then, other “paper orphans” have learned they were stolen from their biological parents or their families were still alive and searching for them. B.C. …

Click here to view the video At first glance, it might be easy to assume that the vast Canadian prairies are empty, especially in the winter. But those who work the land know differently. Hiding somewhere in the seemingly endless expanse of field, forest, and snow are groups, or sounders, …

Most criminal investigators tasked with hunting down crimes at Canada’s ports and borders in recent years have lacked basic training, says a newly released audit report from the Canada Border Services Agency. The report lands just as stakeholders gather in Ottawa to discuss tactics to fight auto theft. Most criminal …

Officials in Belleville, Ont., have declared a state of emergency after 23 people overdosed since Tuesday afternoon. Mike Juby was outside Bridge Street United Church in Belleville, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon when people suddenly started dropping to the sidewalk all around him. There were “ambulances left, right and centre” as …

Legal and communications experts say it’s understandable that the public has a strong appetite for details about police investigations, like the one involving five hockey players. But they say police in Canada err on the side of caution to protect the integrity of the court process. Public appetite for information …

Josée Bergeron didn’t grow up with a strong sense of Indigenous identity. When she began exploring it as an adult, she realized forging a sense of identity is complicated when the politics of who is Indigenous are so fraught. I didn’t grow up rooted in my culture, so exploring it …

Toronto police have identified a Mississauga man killed in a shooting in the west end early Tuesday. Issaïh Jünger, 18, was found with “trauma to his body” in the area of Lansdowne Avenue and Bloor Street W. at about 1:28 a.m., police said in a news release Wednesday. Police said …

A Canadian truck driver is in U.S district court in Detroit on Wednesday after allegedly trying to bring 290 kilograms of suspected cocaine across the border at the Ambassador Bridge — with the “intent to distribute.” Court documents say it happened just before midnight on Monday on the U.S. side …