How Victoria Mboko must navigate life changes in midst of National Bank Open semifinal run

After Victoria Mboko practised, signed autographs and took selfies with some early-arriving fans ahead of Tuesday’s quarterfinal session, four security guards circled around the rising Canadian star for the walk back to... Read more »

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces support measures for softwood lumber industry

KELOWNA — The federal government is setting up a safety net of loans, product-development grants and market diversification plans for Canada’s softwood lumber industry in an effort to shield it from the... Read more »

Hiking this Vancouver Island park was my chance to step back into history

In the summer of 1910, 20-year-old Myra Ellison sent a letter home to her mother from the shores of Campbell Lake on Vancouver Island, where she was surrounded by a wilderness of... Read more »

Lake Superior has algae blooms, too

The glassy waters of Hazelwood Lake, in northern Ontario, shatter as a plankton net crashes through the surface. Nathan Wilson, a doctoral candidate with Lakehead University’s environmental and biotechnology program, is attempting... Read more »

Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear... Read more »

Montreal’s rat problem worsens despite city’s promise to tackle it

Open this photo in gallery: A rat crosses Montreal resident James Klein’s property. Klein says the rats outside his home have stopped him from eating outside all summer.James Klein/The Canadian Press The... Read more »

B.C. researchers solve 12-year mystery of sea star wasting disease

A team led by researchers in British Columbia has solved the mystery of a gruesome disease that has killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America, more than... Read more »

Quebec’s RSV immunization program greatly lowered infant hospitalizations, study says

Open this photo in gallery: RSV virions, colorized blue, and anti-RSV antibodies, colorized yellow, shedding from the surface of human lung cells in an electron microscope image from the U.S. National Institutes... Read more »

Wesley Ridge wildfire in B.C. burns in difficult terrain, posing a challenge for firefighters

Open this photo in gallery: A wildfire near Cameron Lake on Vancouver Island early on Saturday morning. The out-of-control fire has been chewing through the densely forested hills on the lake’s northern... Read more »

Hearings reveal what went wrong in DC crash that killed 67

Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal Aviation Administration and Army officials about a list of things that went wrong and contributed to... Read more »