Around Canada

Camps across Canada and the U.S. are having to adjust everything from moving activities indoors and rerouting canoe trips to cancelling campfires and outdoor swimming.  There were 499 wildfires burning in Canada as of Thursday, 230 of them out of control. Sleeping bags? Check. Flashlights? Check. N95s and air purifiers? …

Smoke from wildfires in winegrowing regions like the Okanagan is creating a challenge for winemakers who may sometimes resort to methods for removing the contamination that aren’t disclosed on a wine bottle’s label. Wine labels don’t reveal the struggle to keep smoke from sneaking into the bottle. When wildfire raged …

Decades after the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed, many Chinese Canadians say they continue to feel excluded and stigmatized in a country that remains conflicted over their presence. Legacy of legislated anti-Chinese racism is still being felt today, say community members. Henry Yu’s grandparents’ marriage started out like a …

Alastair Jeffrey was ready to get to work despite having just travelled 15,000 kilometres. Donning a beige collared shirt emblazoned with the name of his humanitarian organization — Taskforce Kiwi — Jeffrey met with a resident whose home was recently destroyed in a devastating wildfire outside Halifax. He said he …

Calgary police say the homicide unit is investigating a suspicious death in the northwest community of St. Andrews Heights. In a release, police said they were called at approximately 3:30 a.m. Friday to the 1400 block of 29th Street N.W. after receiving reports of a deceased woman. On arrival, officers …

After transporting his new hovercraft from B.C. to northern New Brunswick, Gino LeBlanc is hoping the craft will be useful in his community. Former search and rescue vessel brought from Vancouver to Caraquet. The Canadian Coast Guard is calling and they want you to buy a hovercraft. Not a familiar …

Canada’s gross domestic product was unchanged in April, the second monthly reading in a row of sluggish growth, but early data for May suggests things have started to pick up.  Based on latest economic data, traders say there’s a 50/50 chance of another rate hike in July. Canada’s gross domestic …

Sue Johanson, the beloved Canadian broadcaster who in her golden years enraptured a generation with straightforward sex advice, has died at 93, a representative confirmed on Thursday.  Broadcaster was known for Sunday Night Sex Show and Talk Sex With Sue Johanson. Remembering Sue Johanson, Canada’s no-nonsense sex-ed pioneer Renowned Canadian …

A helicopter, a drone and teams of rescuers from across the Lower Mainland helped locate a missing teen who was separated from her group while hiking in a Metro Vancouver provincial park.  Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue confirmed teen was found late Thursday. A teen girl who was missing for …

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. On Thursday, June 29, 1826, Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) recorded his last entry in his weather observation …