Author: Silas Reed

In Montreal, more than 1,000 homes have been left in the dark for the past 48 hours as a power outage drags on the city’s St-Michel neighbourhood. Hydro-Québec says its crews are working to restore the grid as families across several blocks remain in the cold since the weekend. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. “We can’t do anything to stay warm. We all slept in one bed,” one woman told Global News in an interview Monday.Hydro-Québec officials say they can’t…

A sprawling military training base more than twice the size of New York City in southeastern Alberta appears to be a shadow of its former self while its future use remains up in the air. Canadian Forces Base Suffield, 260 kilometres east of Calgary, is the largest training area in Canada at nearly 2,700 square kilometres.The British Army sent thousands of troops to the base for armour training and exercises each year beginning the early 1970s.Prince Harry trained there in 2007 and was spotted socializing at bars in Calgary before being deployed to Afghanistan.Things changed in 2020 when the COVID-19…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 16, 2024 12:14 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Quebec coroner will investigate the death of a 55-year-old unhoused man found in a park early Sunday in Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. Police say hypothermia could be the cause of the man’s death, after he was found unresponsive at a public square in the city’s east end. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. The man was transported to hospital…

Canada’s premiers must take a bigger role in Canada-U.S. relations, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday on his way in to a meeting he is chairing with all 13 provincial and territorial leaders. Ford has been outspoken about the need for a co-ordinated strategy in response to a threat from U.S. president-elected Donald Trump, who has said he will impose a 25 per cent import tariff on goods coming from Canada and Mexico when he takes office.Trump has suggested that the tariffs will come into place unless both countries stop illegal border crossings and prevent drugs like fentanyl from entering…

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday announced that she has resigned from the federal cabinet, seemingly placing the blame on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for her decision. The announcement came in a letter she shared on X (formerly Twitter) Monday morning.Here is the text of Freeland’s letter.“Dear Prime Minister, Story continues below advertisement It has been the honour of my life to serve in government, working for Canada and Canadians. We have accomplished a lot together.On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in the Cabinet. Get breaking National news For…

The ripple effect of the wildfire that devastated the town of Jasper last summer could continue to reverberate through Alberta’s tourism sector in 2025, industry insiders say. At the Charming Inns of Alberta — a group of privately owned small inns with locations throughout the province — operators in Banff, Lake Louise and Canmore are preparing for a busier-than-normal summer.These already-crowded Rocky Mountain destinations could get even more crowded if travellers who would otherwise have visited Jasper look for alternate itineraries instead, said Charming Inns marketing director James Hague.“Certainly, in 2024, we saw quite a bit of pickup in Banff,…

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced her resignation from the federal cabinet, placing the blame on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for her decision. The announcement came in a letter she shared on X (formerly Twitter) Monday morning.In the letter addressed to Trudeau, Freeland wrote, “On Friday, you informed me that you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in Cabinet.” Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. “Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) says it has charged a second man in connection to a fatal May long weekend boat crash that left three people dead. The OPP announced the new charges, which were laid under the Canada Shipping Act, on Monday – seven months after the May 18 crash took the lives of Riley Orr, Juliette Cote and Kaila Bearman.Just after 9:30 p.m. that day, a speedboat ended up on top of a fishing boat on Bobs Lake, which is just north of Kingston. Orr, Cote and Bearman, who were all between the ages…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size It’s a rare tribute for a civilian. First responders created an honour guard for Harshandeep Singh’s family to pass through at the young man’s memorial service Dec. 15.Singh was shot and killed earlier this month while working as a security guard at an Edmonton apartment building. 2:29 Edmonton security guard shooting murder suspects have extensive criminal records “Harshandeep was a civilian member, but there’s no doubt he’s a first responder,” said Jerry Galliford, a sheriff and president of the Alberta First Responders Association. Story continues below advertisement “He’s on the front lines,…

One of Edmonton’s most popular holiday attractions kicked off festivities on a bitter note. Icy sidewalk warnings were distributed to people living along Candy Cane Lane one day before this year’s launch. Snow clearing and sidewalk maintenance typically fall on the homeowner, but residents on 148th Street between 92 Avenue and 99 Avenue have an agreement with the City of Edmonton that the city would take care of snow clearing during the Candy Cane Lane event timeframe.Mark Wheeler was one of several people frustrated to see warnings hung on their doors.“We keep the sidewalks clean constantly,” Wheeler explained. “Sometimes it’s…