Ottawa police say they are responding to a tornado that touched down in a suburb in the city’s south end. Police are advising residents to seek shelter. They say officers are responding in Barrhaven and the surrounding areas. Reports of injuries or structural damage have yet to surface. Ottawa Fire Services says firefighters and structural…
Ottawa Police, Fire Services Say Tornado Touched Down in City Suburb of Barrhaven
Average Asking Price for Canadian Rental Unit Hits Record High in June: Rentals.ca
The average asking price for a rental unit in Canada reached a record $2,042 last month amid continued interest rate hikes and population expansion, according to a new report by Rentals.ca and Urbanation. The data, which analyzed monthly listings from the Rentals.ca network, showed year-over-year rent inflation for June was 7.5 percent, below the double-digit…
BC Expected to Request Ottawa’s Help With Worsening Wildfires: Minister
Canada’s Emergency Preparedness Minister says he is expecting a “fairly substantive” request for help from British Columbia as wildfires worsen. Bill Blair tells The Canadian Press the government operations centre has been in discussions with the province for the last several days, and Ottawa is ready to deploy the needed resources as the formal request…
Suspect Charged With Murder After Mother of Two Killed by Stray Bullet in Toronto
A 32-year-old man from Toronto has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder over the death of a woman who was killed by a stray bullet in Toronto’s east end last week. Karolina Huebner-Makurat, a 44-year-old mother of two, was killed while walking in Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood on Friday shortly past noon, an incident that…
Parents Hope Soccer Net Bill Will Prevent Deaths of More Children
When David Mills got a call in May of 2017 that his 15-year-old son had been gravely injured on a soccer field, he struggled to grasp what could have gone so seriously wrong, unaware at that time of the dangers of unanchored nets. “As I got closer to the hospital, I began to pray out…
Canada Joins 10 Other NATO Countries Pledging to Train Ukrainian Pilots on F-16 Jets
Defence Minister Anita Anand announced that Canada has joined 10 other NATO allies to train Ukrainian Air Force pilots on the operation and maintenance of American-made F-16 fighter jets to aid Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. The ministers of defence for Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and the UK…
When Dictatorships Are in Doubt They Call Their Citizens ‘Terrorists’
Commentary Ah, the ‘T’ word—terrorism. We have certainly been obsessed with it of late, probably since the awful events of 9/11. The phenomenon of terrorism did not of course make its appearance on the world’s stage two decades ago—most scholars date the beginning of this form of ideological violence to the middle of the 19th…
Doctors, Hospices Grapple With New Quebec Law Forcing Palliative Facilities to Offer MAiD
Quebec physician Bruno Gagnon is feeling squeezed out of his decades-long palliative care career due to his moral objection to medical assistance in dying (MAiD). With years of experience and a faith-based passion for offering comfort to those living out their final days, Dr. Gagnon says he still has much to offer in the field…
Supreme Court Won’t Examine Sharing of Canadian Bank Account Info With US
The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a challenge of legislation that allows account information held by Canadian financial institutions to be shared with U.S. authorities. The case began when two U.S.-born women who now live in Canada contested the Canadian provisions implementing a 2014 agreement between the two countries that made the information-sharing…
Bank of Canada Paid Out Nearly $27 Million in Raises and Bonuses in 2022: Records
The Bank of Canada (BoC) paid out almost $27 million in raises and bonuses in 2022, according to Access to Information records, despite admitting that it made poor inflation forecasts. Records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) showed that about half (49 percent) of the central bank’s workforce, or 1,095 employees, were paid over…
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