Around Canada

After losing his phone at the Toronto airport, Olu Awoseyi was encouraged to see it had taken a photo of an Air Canada employee, who had apparently tried to unlock it. But after five weeks of back and forth — and despite the airline saying it had ID’d the employee …

Carol Richenhaller says her Beckwith Township hobby farm was supposed to be an adventure with her daughter during the pandemic. After spending tens of thousands of dollars, she says her dealings with one contractor show major issues with the construction sector.  Carol Richenhaller says building woes show major holes in …

A coroner’s inquest beginning Monday will examine how Myles Sanderson, the man who killed 11 people in September 2022, died in police custody.  Previous inquest into stabbings won’t play role in new proceeding: Sask. chief coroner. One major question remains after a public inquest spent weeks examining the stabbing massacre …

What a week we’ll have across Ontario as the atmosphere churns up some wild extremes across the province. Above-seasonal warmth building for the first half of the week could threaten all-time high temperature records for the month of February. Dynamics may even be favourable for some thunderstorms. An abrupt change …

Edmonton police say a U-Haul truck struck and killed a woman in southeast Edmonton Saturday night as it tried to evade officers and Alberta RCMP. In a RCMP news conference Sunday night, Supt. Leanne MacMillian said a 45-year-old Fort Saskatchewan woman was inspecting the outside of her vehicle after going …

Now that the Liberals and New Democrats have announced they’ve reached a deal on pharmacare, the path is open for the parties to carry on a confidence-and-supply agreement that has helped to keep the government in power since March 2022.  There are promises still unfulfilled in the parties’ confidence-and-supply agreement. …

In speaking with community organizations, CBC News found that Canada’s drug crisis is affecting a largely unchecked population of users – newcomers – and we don’t even know how severe the issue is. Now, experts are calling not only for better data collection, but also more attention to the realities …

Dave Wilson’s 2006 Ford 500 was stolen. His family posted about it on Facebook, where people sent in updates about the car’s whereabouts as it travelled from Halifax to Cape Breton.  Family sent updates on whereabouts of Ford 500 as it travelled from Halifax to Cape Breton. A Bedford, N.S., …

Book publishers and industry watchers are taking note of the romantasy subgenre’s enormous popularity among young female readers — author Sarah J. Maas alone has sold 40 million copies — and the power of #BookTok to elevate both its well-known, traditionally published writers, and self-published indie authors alike.  Romantasy, which …

This winter hasn’t felt very wintry on the Prairies. January’s bitter chill got washed out amid a sea of above-seasonal temperatures blanketing the heart of the country so far this season. Never say never when it comes to the weather, and winter certainly isn’t done with us yet. A pattern …