Forty-six years to the day after the Lower Post residential school in northern British Columbia closed its doors, the final reminder of it will soon be completely demolished.

Police in Metro Vancouver say they’ve responded to more than 100 sudden deaths since an extreme heat wave took hold in the province, and the danger is expected to continue in the face of unrelenting heat still in the forecast over the next several days.

I am gradually beginning to see why Canada Day needs to be a day of reconciliation, not a day of celebration. 

Two weeks after his conditional release from a Turkish prison, Carleton University doctoral student Cihan Erdal continues to fight for his freedom.

The RCMP suspected someone senior in their ranks was offering to spill secrets but still didn’t know the identity of the alleged leaker for several months after they first learned confidential information about investigations had been compromised, according to court documents that ultimately led to the arrest of intelligence analyst Cameron Ortis.

Just one day after Lytton recorded the highest temperature ever seen in Canada, the B.C. village hit a new historic high of 47.9 C, blasting through the previous record by more than a full degree.

A judge has rejected an application by the Department of Social Development to make a 13-year-old boy a permanent ward of the state, in turn ruling he be returned to his mother.

“Breakthrough infections” among fully vaccinated individuals can make for alarming headlines. But they’re rare — totaling just 0.5 per cent of reported COVID-19 cases since vaccination efforts began, the latest Canadian data shows — and they tend to be milder.

More than nine months after former Toronto police officer Ralph Thistle was awarded what should amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost salary, he still hasn’t been paid by Ontario’s Workplace Insurance and Safety Board. Instead, the Métis elder lives in poverty.

Daily and all-time temperature records are expected to be broken over the coming days as a “heat dome” settles in over Western Canada, from British Columbia into Saskatchewan and up into the Northwest Territories and Yukon.