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[published_date] Parts of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are under an air quality warning on Monday alongside an ongoing heat warning in the region, Environment Canada says.  Smoke from forest fires over northern Ontario is expected to cause poor air quality and reduced visibility, the federal weather agency says.  Poor air quality may continue throughout…

[published_date] B.C. Ferries' announcement that its four new vessels will be built in China has made waves, with the ripple effects reaching all the way to Ottawa.  Canada's transport minister, Chrystia Freeland, has said she's disappointed with the decision and the Conservatives, both federally and in B.C., have gone further, saying the deal should be scrapped…

[published_date] As Alberta's transportation minister prepares to unveil a passenger rail strategy this summer, freedom of information documents obtained by CBC News show that Premier Danielle Smith's husband, David Moretta, was invited to three meetings in 2023 about passenger rail and its potential expansion in the province. Some academics and a former cabinet minister say…

[published_date] When Nathan MacKinnon returned to his old stomping grounds at Cole Harbour Place on Friday to speak to kids attending a hockey camp in his hometown, he received a hero's welcome.  "It was fun and exciting," says 10-year-old camper Rosie Tanner, who plays hockey for the Metro East Inferno during the school year. "He told…

[published_date] Late last year, multiple tenants in small apartment buildings around Halifax got similar letters from their new landlord, stating their leases would soon be terminated. But no reasons were given.  This didn't sit right with Amanda Rose, who has been renting her one-bedroom apartment in the city's north end for almost six years.  "It seemed targeted," Rose…

[published_date] About one-third of Canadians have become obese — with more weight gain happening during the pandemic, according to a new study.  The research, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Monday, found that 32.7 per cent of Canadians (10.6 million people) were obese in 2023 — an increase of about eight percentage points…

[published_date] Daphnee Blouin scored a gift goal in the 88th minute of a scoreless match to lift the visiting Halifax Tides to a 1-0 win over the Montreal Roses in Northern Super League action on Saturday at Stade Boreale in Laval, Que. The Tides, who are last in the six-team Canadian pro women's soccer circuit,…

[published_date] The presumed death of an international student who was swept away in the Thompson River last weekend was "entirely foreseeable [and] entirely preventable," according to a Kamloops, B.C., resident who saved two students from a similar fate last year. Robert Griffiths, who says he nearly drowned during his rescue efforts near the city's airport…

[published_date] Officials from the Calgary Stampede say a horse that was hurt during a chuckwagon race on Saturday has been euthanized. A Stampede spokesperson said a horse on Chad Fike's team sustained a racing injury during the eighth heat. They said medical care was immediately dispatched, but following an assessment, the owner and the veterinary team…

[published_date] Cole Palmer scored twice and fed Joao Pedro for a goal as Chelsea overwhelmed Paris Saint-Germain in the first half and beat the European champions 3-0 on Sunday in the final of the first expanded Club World Cup. Palmer had almost identical left-footed goals from just inside the penalty area in the 22nd and 30th…

[published_date] The team from the Land of the Smiles went home disappointed after dropping a tough match to Canada in the women's Volleyball Nations League tournament on Sunday. Canada defeated Thailand 3-2 in the best-of-five match, played at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.Thailand won the opening set 25-17, but the Canadians bounced back with…

[published_date] Several Canadian track athletes achieved world championship-qualifying times this weekend, ahead of this summer's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Three of those marks were set on Sunday at the Edmonton Athletics Invitational, with Savannah Sutherland and Christopher Morales Williams recording season-best times, while Audrey Leduc bettered her own national record. Sutherland, the Borden, Sask., native who's had…