
Just an hour after Chris Ashurst finished a morning of frigid cross-country skiing, an atmospheric river descended upon Haida Gwaii from the south, swinging the temperature 15 degrees “almost into T-shirt weather” and setting off a massive melt that nearly led to calamity on the craggy archipelago off B.C.’s north coast.That was Sunday morning. By the evening, Mr. Ashurst, a volunteer emergency co-ordinator for the North Coast Regional District, was one of more than 2,000 residents stranded on the north half of the main island when the lone highway was washed out by a flood.The...
December 30, 2025 - 22:28 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
Three schools in Saskatoon — St. Paul School, Bishop Filevich Ukrainian School, and St. Anne School — will receive the funding. Construction is aimed to be complete in summer 2026.
December 30, 2025 - 20:04 | Ashley Beherns | Global News - Canada
MINNEAPOLIS — When Ethan MacKenzie scored the eventual game-winning goal in Canada’s opening game of the 2026 world junior hockey championship, everything was a blur. Read More
December 30, 2025 - 18:51 | Janson Duench | Ottawa Citizen
New data shows influenza cases are still surging across the country, surpassing the highest positivity rate recorded in Canada over the last three seasons.The Public Health Agency of Canada provided a brief update Tuesday on the viral season. It said the proportion of flu tests that came back positive hit 32.4 per cent in the week ending Dec. 20, up from nearly 28 per cent the previous week.Infectious disease and public health experts have warned that this season could be the worst in recent years. The new data show the rate of illness has reached a grim milestone, overtaking the...
December 30, 2025 - 18:19 | Alanna Smith | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Federal officials say that Alberta separatists going around Ottawa and repeatedly meeting with U.S. officials to advance their cause is legal for Canadians, within certain limits, even though similar behaviour could be prohibited elsewhere.
When separatist organizer Jeffrey Rath
claimed last week he was meeting with officials connected to the White House...
December 30, 2025 - 17:02 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
As a new year nears, Canadians can look forward to more money from Ottawa. Annual increases in some federal government benefits and credits are coming based on its practice (since 2018) of indexing these amounts to keep up with inflation.
In 2026, the
increase will be two per cent
, based on...
December 30, 2025 - 16:59 | Stewart Lewis | National Post

