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[published_date] The president of an organization representing First Nations along the north coast of B.C. says it would not support any new pipeline projects in northern B.C.  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Bloomberg News Tuesday that she expects a private company will bring forward a proposal to build a new oil pipeline to B.C.'s North…

[published_date] An Alberta judge has put on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth. Justice Allison Kuntz, in a written judgment Friday, said the law raises serious issues that need to be hashed out in court, and issued a temporary injunction against the law before it fully came into…

[published_date] U.S. President Donald Trump says he's ending all trade discussions with Canada to hit back at Ottawa for slapping a tax on web giants — and he wants it removed before negotiations can begin again. Canada and the U.S. have been locked in talks to get Trump to lift his punishing tariffs on Canadian goods,…

[published_date] The RCMP says Saskatchewan's former commanding officer now has a new job with the force. Mounties say Rhonda Blackmore has been hired as assistant commissioner of Indigenous and support services, replacing Warren Brown, who recently announced his retirement. The position is based out of national headquarters in Ottawa. Blackmore, a 30-year RCMP veteran who assumed…

[published_date] A month after being displaced by the region's largest wildfire, hundreds of evacuees from Deer Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario are returning home. The first plane out of Toronto, where roughly 885 people have been staying for the past four weeks, left on Friday, Chief Leonard Mamakeesic told CBC News. The community is…

[published_date] While digging through old folders and filing cabinets, Western Canada High School teacher Geneviève Dale happened across an 81-year-old letter mailed by a Canadian Navy sailor during the Second World War. The letter was signed by Cecil Richard Moss, who attended Western Canada High, according to Dale, and addressed to Rosalie Cummings, a former…

[published_date] Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra says the province has taken control of four more school boards. He says the province has appointed supervisors to the Toronto District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board. Calandra says the moves come after a recommendation…

[published_date] Winnipeg's Portage and Main intersection is embedded in the story of Canada — the crossroads of the country and one of its windiest corners — and it's held that lore despite being inaccessible to pedestrians for 46 years. But all that changes today. The barricades that forced pedestrians below ground and into a labyrinth of tunnels to get to the other side…

[published_date] When Cameron Hockey is asked to describe the devastation from a downburst that hit Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park in northeastern Ontario the night of June 21, he's almost at a loss for words. "The closest thing that I could correlate this to that some folks might have a mental image of would be…

[published_date] Front Burner Tim Hodgson, Canada’s energy and natural resources minister, on Liberal’s push to fast-track major projects, and the backlash from environmental and indigenous groups. CBC News · Posted: Jun 27, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago Tim Hodgson, the new federal energy minister, spoke to a…

[published_date] After at least 22 drownings in Quebec since the start of the year — including two at Montreal's Verdun Beach in recent weeks — the Quebec Lifesaving Society is renewing its calls for caution. "Follow the instructions, that way you'll have stories to tell instead of tragedies to inflict on your loved ones," said…

[published_date] Canada's economy shrank by 0.1 per cent on a monthly basis in April, Statistics Canada said on Friday, with the data agency's advance estimate for May showing a similar decline in activity. The manufacturing sector alone dipped 1.9 per cent — the steepest drop since April 2021, per Statistics Canada — driving a decline among goods-producing industries.…