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OTTAWA — Meghan Fandrich’s voice shakes as she recalls grabbing her five-year-old daughter and fleeing their home as flames descended on the village of Lytton, B.C., in 2021. Darryl Tedjuk is quiet as he relates the reality that his hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk in Northwest Territories is slowly being washed away by the Beaufort Sea. They […]

TORONTO — The head of Scotiabank says he’s not overly concerned with the election result in Mexico, a key area of focus for growth at the bank. Speaking at a Canadian Club event in Toronto, Scott Thomson says the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as president last weekend was no surprise, but the apparent congressional supermajority […]

CORNWALL, ONTARIO — RCMP say four people have been arrested in a large-scale human smuggling ring they allege funnelled migrants into the United States illegally. Mounties say they started investigating an alleged human smuggling operation in the Cornwall, Ont., area in 2022. They allege that between July 2022 and June of last year, the group […]

TORONTO — Bell Media’s 10 free ad-supported streaming channels will launch on new platforms this year. The so-called FAST channels, which include original programming from CTV News, “Corner Gas,” and TSN, will debut on Plex, The Roku Channel and, as previously announced, Samsung TV Plus, the media giant announced Thursday. Bell launched the channels in […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they’ve cleared a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at York University a day after it was established. Police say the university reached out to them Wednesday to ask for assistance and then served protesters with a trespass notice Thursday. They say officers moved to enforce trespassing law Thursday morning and roughly 40 […]

OTTAWA — Executives of some of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies are expected to testify before a parliamentary committee Thursday afternoon about their efforts to reduce the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. CEOs and senior executives from Cenovus Energy Inc., Enbridge Inc., Imperial Oil Ltd., Shell Canada Ltd. and Suncor Energy Inc. are slated to […]

OTTAWA — A new institute is in the works that would track Indigenous economic prosperity in Canada by collecting data on population, businesses, land and resources. The First Nations University of Canada announced today that it will set up the centre with help from two foundations. University president Jacqueline Ottmann says Indigenous communities can prosper […]

TORONTO — An analysis of 12 of the largest Canadian commercial real estate markets shows developers have shifted their focus toward purpose-built rental construction, some at the expense of new residential condominiums and commercial buildings. Re/Max Canada’s 2024 Commercial Real Estate Report, which examined the dozen markets during the first quarter of this year, said […]

TORONTO — Strength in energy and base metal stocks helped Canada’s main stock index move higher in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 36.38 points at 22,181.40. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 55.21 points at 38,862.54. The S&P 500 index was down […]

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are moving to streamline and secure health data across jurisdictions with a new bill that imposes new rules on technology vendors. Health Minister Mark Holland tabled the legislation in the House of Commons this morning. The bill would require vendors to ensure that health information tech they license, sell or […]