Canada

Candlelight vigil underway for victims of Toronto-area fatal condo shooting

VAUGHAN, Ont. - Family, friends and shocked community members held a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to honour the five victims of the deadly condo shooting north of Toronto. Dozens of people holdin...

Dec 21, 2022

B.C. pauses electricity connections for crypto mining, citing 'massive' consumption

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is temporarily suspending requests for electricity connections from cryptocurrency mining operations, saying the decision is aimed at preserving the power su...

Dec 21, 2022

Judge grants bail to former RCMP intelligence official accused of leaking secrets

OTTAWA - An RCMP intelligence official accused of violating Canada's secrecy law has been granted bail. The reasons for Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger's decision Wednesday in the case ...

Dec 21, 2022

No charges for officers who showed 'remarkable courage' in wild B.C. shootout: review

SAANICH, B.C. - British Columbia's Independent Investigations Office has cleared police officers who were involved in a wild shootout outside a Saanich, B.C., bank last summer that left twin brothers ...

Dec 21, 2022

Remembering the lives lost in the Vaughan condo shooting rampage

TORONTO - The five people killed after a 73-year-old man went on a shooting rampage at his Toronto-area condo are being remembered as kind community members who were loved by their families. Police ha...

Dec 21, 2022

Regulations for ban on foreign homebuyers announced, law coming into effect Jan. 1

OTTAWA - The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has announced regulations for the ban on foreign homebuyers, which comes into effect on Jan. 1. Starting in the new year, foreign commercial enterp...

Dec 21, 2022

Dining dinosaur fossil has mammal in belly, sheds light on ancient ecosystems

EDMONTON - A rare fossil revealing a dinosaur's last meal is shedding new light on ancient ecosystems and behaviours. University of Alberta paleontologist Corwin Sullivan says the fossil of a crow-siz...

Dec 21, 2022

Extreme cold warnings blanket Western Canada as winter officially arrives

VANCOUVER - Weather warnings or special weather statements are posted in every province and territory except Manitoba as winter storms or extreme cold usher in the official start of winter. Environmen...

Dec 21, 2022

Senior Environment Canada climatologist's top weather stories of 2022

From "springuary" for the winter that wouldn't leave to "hotumn" for the fall that never came, Canadians got a whole new vocabulary for wild weather this year. Here is a list of Canada's top 10 weathe...

Dec 21, 2022

'Weird and wacky': Hurricane Fiona top weather story in stormy, wet, windy, dry year

If nothing else, 2022 gave Canadians a slew of new weather words. There was "springuary" for the winter that wouldn't leave. There was "hotumn" for the fall that never came. "Derecho" got new currency...

Dec 21, 2022