Around Canada

El Niño is here to stay through the winter months, forecasters announced this week, and there’s a decent chance that it’ll stick around to influence our weather straight into next spring. Not only will we head into the cold season with this pattern of above-normal water temperatures in the eastern …

Months after a North York man’s dealership told him to remove the after-market anti-theft device from his new Lexus, the $75,000 vehicle was stolen from a TTC parking lot on Oct. 3. The theft marks the second time in nine months that Mitchell Levine and his wife Stacie Korn have …

A B.C. man says he was shocked to discover several dead birds outside a friend’s house in Vancouver last week, after they had flown into the house’s window. “It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen,” said Bruce Hunt. “I’ve seen lots of birds fly into windows and stuff like …

Experts say Friday’s court ruling against the Impact Assessment Act is a setback, but not a critical blow to the federal government’s environmental agenda, although it could have broader implications for other climate policies Ottawa is developing. Court’s ruling on environmental impact law clips federal government’s wings on climate change, …

The unanimity expressed by Canadian political leaders in response to Hamas’s attack on Israeli citizens was important — even if differences inevitably were going to emerge. Partisanship is never set aside for long. And war is neither easy nor simple.  While Canada isn’t at the centre of events, that doesn’t …

Canada’s top court has delivered a highly anticipated judgment, writing in a majority opinion that Ottawa’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA), formerly Bill C-69, is largely unconstitutional. Majority of top court agreed that act’s ‘designated projects’ scheme exceeds bounds of federal jurisdiction. Canada’s top court has delivered a highly anticipated judgment, …

Delegates at this weekend’s NDP policy convention could end up giving party leader Jagmeet Singh a bargaining chip as the party pushes the governing Liberals to introduce a universal single-payer pharmacare program. Delegates call on Jagmeet Singh ‘to go to the mat’ with the Liberals on pharmacare. Delegates at this …

Sarah Mackenzie lost her non-binary child to suicide earlier this year. As the province works to implement a new policy dictating how schools deal with gender-diverse students, she’s calling on the government to focus on bettering mental health and addictions supports instead.  Sarah Mackenzie’s 14-year-old non-binary child died by suicide …

Canada’s rental crisis is getting worse, according to a new report that found the average price to rent an apartment last month was $2,149 — up by more than 11 per cent in the past 12 months. Among Canada’s big cities, rent is going up at fastest pace in Calgary. …

The village of Richmound held a protest on Saturday, in hopes of spurring a cult led by a woman who has declared herself the "Queen of Canada" to leave the southwestern Saskatchewan community. Self-proclaimed 'Queen of Canada' held meet-and-greet at the same time The village of Richmound held a protest …