Morning Update: Canada’s symbolic move in the Middle East

Good morning. Canada’s recognition of Palestine is a political message in search of a peace plan – more on that below, along with a cabinet minister’s hot-mic moment and Jimmy Kimmel’s return.... Read more »

Massive nickel mine planned north of Timmins, Ontario

Laurent Robichaud loves rivers. He loves rafting them, canoeing them and watching sturgeon swim in them. The self-proclaimed “sturgeon whisperer” lives in the northern Ontario town of Timmins, built along the Mattagami... Read more »

How do you build a home that can survive B.C. wildfires?

This story is part of Habitat, a series from The Narwhal which looks at how communities are working to address the housing and climate change crises simultaneously Since wildfires tore through his Yunesit’in... Read more »

A jury will look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime — and made it hard to leave

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal trial beginning in Amazon’s hometown this week is set to examine whether the online retailing giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime service and made... Read more »

Ontario opened a protected area in Port Hope to development

Among the forest, wetlands and fields beside Richard Yoshida’s house, a developer hatched a plan to build a new subdivision. Yoshida, who worked in home renovations in Toronto before moving to the... Read more »

Is regenerative agriculture the future of farming in Canada?

A variety of crops — millet, ryegrass, clover, hairy vetch, sunflowers and more — grow together in unlikely harmony in a field in south-central Saskatchewan, surrounded by the gentle buzzing of insects... Read more »

To keep its ER open, a Yellowknife hospital told doctors to name their price for summertime shifts

Open this photo in gallery: Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, N.W.T., is shown on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. As hospitals and other health-care facilities across Canada begin to grapple with worker shortages,... Read more »

Water operators stretched thin on First Nations

Staccato IV beeps and electrical whirs disrupted the worried air of Chris Wemigwans’s son’s quarantined hospital room in Sudbury, Ont.  It was 2017, and Wemigwans’s 14-year-old son had spent the past week... Read more »

Hall of Famer Bernie Parent, who led Flyers to two Stanley Cup titles, dies at 80

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bernie Parent, the Hall of Famer considered one of the great goalies of all time who anchored the net for the Philadelphia Flyers’ only two Stanley Cup championships during... Read more »

PM Carney says Canada recognizes a Palestinian state, offers support in building ‘peaceful future’

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has officially recognized the State of Palestine and has offered its support in building a peaceful future for both Palestine and the State of Israel. In a... Read more »