Category: Canada

‘I can change my story’: Addiction Recovery Journey Boosted by Helping Others

Libby Szarka looked around at the people who had become her “new family.” They were a poor comparison to the family she had left behind—three daughters, the youngest only 8 when Ms. Szarka started living on the streets of Calgary, dealing and smoking crack. “They wouldn’t think twice to stab you up for a hoot…


BC Army Reservists Provide Tough Challenge for Upcoming Episode of ‘Amazing Race Canada’

A group of soldiers from the army reserve unit in Victoria, B.C., played a prominent role in an upcoming episode of “The Amazing Race Canada,” set to air on July 25. Episode four of season nine of the popular reality TV show was filmed with the participation of the Canadian Scottish Regiment, an infantry unit…


Meet the Young Canadians Spending Summer on the Frontlines of Wildfire Fight

When Reese Lange was in kindergarten, she dreamed of joining the police. But it was in high school that she realized her true calling. The 21-year-old is now part of an army of young men and women, many of them college students, who are spending their summer battling what could be one of Canada’s worst…


Ontario Regions Face Ambulance Pressures; Province Won’t Release Offload Delay Data

Several Ontario municipalities say their paramedic services are under immense pressure, with worrying stretches of times during which no ambulances are available to respond to calls—but the province doesn’t track the problem. The government does have data on the hours paramedics spend waiting in emergency rooms to transfer patients to the care of a hospital,…


BC Ports in Limbo as Union Removes Strike Notice Despite Dispute With Employers

The fallout from the labour dispute at British Columbia ports continues to unfold, as the union representing about 7,400 workers abruptly rescinded a strike notice hours after issuing it. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stepped up action in the federal response to B.C. ports potentially shutting down again in the dispute between the International…


Ottawa Plan for Net-Zero Faces Uphill Battle, Will Cost Taxpayers Over $1 Trillion: AB Minister Cites Report

EDMONTON—The federal government’s plan for a net-zero electricity grid by 2035 faces considerable regulatory, technical, and supply chain challenges, according to a new report, and Alberta Minister of Affordability and Utilities Nathan Neudorf said the cost to Albertans will be extreme. “We are at a critical point in history where the global energy market is…


BC Police Issue Amber Alert for Brother, Sister After Mother Failed to Return Pair

An Amber Alert has been issued across all of British Columbia for an eight-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother after they failed to return from a vacation with their mother. Surrey RCMP say Aurora Bolton and Joshuah Bolton were last seen in Krafty’s Kitchen and Bar in Kelowna on June 30, and police are also…


Woman Operating Ont. Kids Autism Camp, Convicted Sex Offender Husband, Arrested for Human Trafficking

Nottawasaga Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have arrested and charged a married couple from Essa Township with human trafficking, just two days after issuing a community safety advisory about the husband, a convicted sex offender. Police have charged Lauriston Charles Maloney and his wife, Amber-Lee Maloney, the owner/operator of a children’s autism day camp, with various…


Union Rescinds 72-Hour BC Port Strike Notice That Had Been Set for Saturday

The labour dispute at British Columbia ports is receiving a federal reaction previously used for events including the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, blockades associated with the Freedom Convoy, and the short-lived rebellion in Russia last month. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened the government’s incident response group on Wednesday to discuss the conflict between the…


Alberta and Federal Environment Ministers Have First Face-to-Face Meeting

Alberta’s new Minister of Environment and Protected Areas Rebecca Schulz had an in-person meeting Wednesday with her federal counterpart, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, and discussed Ottawa’s pending electricity regulations and emissions, but it wasn’t clear how much consensus, if any, the two jurisdictions reached on the issues. “I informed Minister Guilbeault that our government remains…