As the Alberta election results showed, the divide between Canada's urban and rural areas just keeps getting wider. If we care about national unity, we need to find a way to bridge that before it's too late, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Over the past few days, apocalyptic skies have darkened Tony Wawatie's traditional territory around Barriere Lake. Hundreds of wildfires are scorching Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, forcing most of the First Nation's roughly 800 members to evacuate.
Hazy skies tinged with an eerie yellow glow greeted millions of Canadians in Quebec and Ontario again on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, as the smoke from hundreds of wildfires continued to cause air quality warnings in Canada's most populated corridor.
On air quality maps, purple signifies the worst of it. In reality, it's a thick, hazardous haze that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange.
Weather maps hang on the walls and precipitation reports flash across screens in the Winnipeg office where major decisions about Canada’s battle against an unprecedented wildfire season are made.
Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning. And we're sharing the smoke with our neighbours to the south.
Quebec's language law reform is continuing to draw criticism and legal challenges from the province's English community as more of its provisions come into effect Thursday, exactly a year after it received royal assent.
A Quebec forensics company promised millions of dollars in bribes to officials in the Philippines, including a cabinet minister and his brother, as it sought lucrative police contracts, according to a statement of facts attached to a deal the firm struck to avoid prosecution in Canada.