
Two closely linked First Nations are taking different paths as Ontario pushes ahead with Ring of Fire roads and mining in a region reshaped by climate change and geopolitics.
December 13, 2025 - 09:52 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
It's another day of teeth-chattering cold across much of the Prairies today as temperatures are forecast to reach frostbite-risk levels.
December 13, 2025 - 08:13 | Brett Ballah | Global News - Canada
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is not giving up the fight to change the federal system of
equalization payments
to the provinces.
In a Dec. 11 post to X, he included a map that shows his province, Alberta and B.C. receiving nothing from 2026 equalization.
Several eastern provinces are set...
December 13, 2025 - 08:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
The mayor of flood-struck Abbotsford, B.C., says he is disappointed and frustrated with the federal government over what he calls “inaction” on cross-border flooding that has repeatedly inundated his city.Ross Siemens said he had not been contacted by the federal government about this week’s flooding, which has forced hundreds of households to evacuate, inundated poultry barns and forced livestock relocations.
December 13, 2025 - 07:48 | Brenna Owen | The Globe and Mail
For 30 years, the development industry in Vancouver was so flush with profit and momentum that government planners seemed to assume that it would be willing to pay for whatever the city asked for.New parks. Daycares and school sites. Restoration of heritage buildings. More stringent building-code requirements. More energy efficiency. Public art. More room in underground garages for bike parking and car shares.
December 13, 2025 - 07:30 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
An Ontario senior found not criminally responsible for attacking three housemates with a hammer before he tried to punch a police officer and kicked a nurse in the face has been discharged.
James Harding, 73, appeared recently in front of the Ontario Review Board at the Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Ont., where he was a patient until he was released into the community in May 2023.
“The panel found that Mr. Harding remains a significant threat to the safety of the public and the necessary and appropriate disposition to manage that risk is a discharge with …...
December 13, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post




